China's humanoid robots face their real test on the factory floor – news.cgtn.com

Doctors at UC San Diego successfully used humanoid robots for remote gallbladder surgery on a pig, marking a medical breakthrough. A medical breakthrough was achieved as UC San Diego doctors successfully utilized $20,000 humanoid robots to perform remote gallbladder surgery on a pig. This development highlights the potential for artificial intelligence to address surgeon shortages…

Mistral AI has released Robostral Navigate, its first dedicated robotics navigation model and a key step in the French startup’s push into “physical AI” for factories, warehouses and industrial automation. Robostral Navigate is an 8‑billion‑parameter vision‑language‑action model that takes images from a single RGB camera plus a plain‑language instruction and moves a robot through complex…

Sony achieves ‘major breakthrough’ with tennis-playing robot  Robotics & Automation News

There are many words that I would never, ever use to describe a drone. Stealthy. Subtle. Whatever the opposite of obnoxious is. Much of this is because of the giant angry bee sound that drones tend to make, but it’s also the way that they look in flight: With uncannily linear movements and an even…

McLaren Construction has teamed up with FieldAI, an international leader in physical AI, to bring general-purpose robots to its UK construction sites. Under the partnership, McLaren will deploy autonomous quadruped robots, initially to capture 360° site imagery, generate point cloud data and support progress verification, model-to-site deviation analysis, safety compliance patrols and quality assurance. The…

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