First Addenbrooke's robot abdomen surgery 'milestone' says trust – BBC

For $30 an hour, a humanoid robot will clean your San Francisco apartment while a remote operator controls it from elsewhere. Tech startup Tau Robotics opened the service this week to selected applicants in the city. CEO and co-founder Alex Koch said that the company is mainly targeting people who currently skip professional cleaners altogether….

Maritime Robotics has secured a €28 million growth investment led by Mustard Seed + Partners (MS+PARTNERS) to scale manufacturing and expand its product portfolio as global demand for autonomous maritime systems accelerates. The investment round also saw continued support from existing investors EnvisionTech, Nysnø Climate Investment, and Umoe, alongside company founders, employees, and early backers….

CNN vs robot: Who can lift more?  CNN

Digua Robot Sunri S600 Mass Production Ecosystem Expands: The Infrastructure Logic Behind Embodied Intelligence Industrialization in the Age of 100K Robot Deployments  Pandaily

RoboLab is NVIDIA’s simulation benchmarking platform. | Source: NVIDIA Robotics foundation models have made remarkable progress, according to NVIDIA. Today’s best systems can follow natural language instructions to pick, place, sort, and manipulate a wide variety of objects. But as these models grow more capable, evaluating them rigorously has become one of the field’s hardest…

The Salamanca City School District in New York has shelved a pilot project to introduce a humanoid robot into the classroom, following a barrage of criticism from educators and the local community, who were outraged by the developer’s background and potential threats to student privacy. As The Guardian reports , the project planned to integrate…