#embodied-ai

Google DeepMind expands its Gemini Robotics AI model to control entire humanoid robots, enabling complex locomotion and dexterous manipulation tasks.

Gemini Robotics ER 2 enables robots to reason about physical tasks, collaborate across multiple units, and adapt in real time using continuous video feeds.

Gemini Robotics 2 enables humanoids to perform dexterous tasks and coordinate with other robots, with on-device inference for rapid adaptation to new embodiments.

New robotics startup prioritizes human-robot interaction design over raw model capability, launching public experiments with 100+ proprietary robots.

Anthropic and Physical Intelligence held acquisition talks this spring, rekindling debate over AI labs' pivot toward embodied reasoning.

The startup claims a unified model that learns spatial reasoning from gameplay action labels can transfer to physical robot control with minimal fine-tuning.

The spatial-reasoning startup, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, plans to build AI agents using a unique gaming dataset.

A new French robotics startup backed by Eric Schmidt is building a task-agnostic robot that abandons the human silhouette in favor of modularity and dexterous hands.

A Wired journalist paired OpenClaw with a LeRobot arm, showing how large language models can now configure, train, and control physical robots without specialized expertise.

A new approach to AI agent architecture prioritizes physical or environmental substrate over language models, challenging the dominant LLM-vectorstore pattern.

iRobot founder Colin Angle debuts Familiar Machines & Magic with an AI-powered quadruped companion robot targeting eldercare and family markets.