Tag: Robotics
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Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3 Action, an Open-Weight Robot Model
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action on September 23, 2026 — a 7-billion-parameter, open-weight “world action model” that takes camera frames, a robot’s current state and a text instruction, and returns the next chunk of motor commands together with predicted video of how the scene should unfold. It is the first open-weight release to […]
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Hugging Face Opens Preorders for Microduck, a $399 Open-Source Biped
Pollen Robotics opened preorders for Microduck on August 27, 2026 — a 25 cm, 800 g open-source biped robot priced at $399. The robot is the second hardware product from the French startup Hugging Face acquired in April 2025, and the first built explicitly as a reinforcement-learning testbed: the SDK, the on-robot software, the MuJoCo […]
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Black Forest Labs Unveils FLUX 3, a Multimodal Image, Video, Audio and Action Model
Black Forest Labs unveiled FLUX 3 on July 23, 2026 — a multimodal frontier model that jointly learns from images, video, and audio in a single unified architecture. The German lab that made its name with the open-weight FLUX.1 image models is pivoting from still images toward what it calls “visual intelligence,” with a headline […]
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Mistral Releases Robostral Navigate: Single-Camera Robot Navigation
On July 8, 2026, Mistral AI announced Robostral Navigate — the company’s first embodied navigation model and its formal entry into physical AI. The 8-billion-parameter model guides robots through complex environments using nothing but a single RGB camera and natural language instructions — no LiDAR, no depth sensors, and no pre-built maps. It sets a […]
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NVIDIA Open-Sources SONIC: A Foundation Model for Humanoid Whole-Body Control
Key points NVIDIA has open-sourced SONIC, a 42-million-parameter humanoid whole-body control foundation model trained on over 100 million frames of motion-capture data, released on February 20, 2026. SONIC scales model capacity from 1.2 million to 42 million parameters, using 100M+ frames of motion capture and 9,000 GPU hours across 128 GPUs over 3 days. Its […]
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MiPA: NEURA Robotics’ €9,999 Home Assistant Robot Is Ready for Launch
NEURA Robotics is set to revolutionize home automation with the upcoming launch of MiPA (My intelligent Personal Assistant), a cognitive home robot priced at €9,999. Designed to assist with everyday tasks, MiPA combines advanced AI, modular design, and user-friendly interaction to bring robotics into domestic environments. Key points NEURA Robotics is preparing to launch MiPA, […]
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GR00T for Autonomous Robots
Key points NVIDIA’s GEAR Lab presented GR00T, which the article describes as a foundation model specially designed for autonomous robots. The article says GR00T was released as part of the GTC keynote from NVIDIA. NVIDIA GEAR Lab presents GR00T, a foundation modal specially designed for autonomous robots. Released as part of the GTC Keynote from […]
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AI-Generated Marilyn Monroe Chatbot
Key points The article reports that an AI-generated Marilyn Monroe chatbot can hold extended conversations with realistic emotions and expressions. It says the technology uses a camera and microphone to detect user emotions and respond accordingly. An AI-generated Marilyn Monroe chatbot can hold extended conversations with realistic emotions and expressions, according to a report. The […]
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Luma AI’s Genie
Key points Luma AI’s Genie lets anyone make 3D objects from text. Luma AI’s Genie lets anyone make 3D objects from text
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Boston Dynamics integrates ChatGPT with Spot robot
Key points Boston Dynamics demonstrated a video of its Spot robot combined with ChatGPT. The company also published a blog post on robots that can chat. Boston Dynamics demonstrated a video of their Spot robot combined with ChatGPT. They also published a blog post on robots that can chat.