[Most robots react. This one thinks a step ahead.] Ant Group’s Robbyant just published LingBot-VA 2.0 — a video-action foundation model built from scratch for robot control, not fine-tuned from a video generator.

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From the 1st-5th June, the robots descended on Vienna. The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) brought together the top minds in robotics for one short week to showcase the latest technologies, form new collaborations, and exchange ideas. Held at the Messe Wien, a stone’s throw from the bank of the Danube,…

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Beijing-based embodied-AI startup Anyverse Dynamics has raised more than $200 million in an angel round, bringing its total fundraising in the first half of the year to several hundred million dollars. The capital injection underscores a funding surge in China’s robotics industry, as startups race to build war chests for compute-intensive AI model training and…

In Episode 252  of The Robot Report Podcast, we connect with Andy Lonsberry, co-founder and CEO of Path Robotics. He discusses the difficulties in setting up and using robots for welding applications. Path Robotics has applied AI to identify the path of a torch and then move the robot through the welding operation, using real-time…

Arm drift after long reinforcement training caused by action prefix drift. Source: Humanoid Robotic manipulation is making progress with artificial intelligence. London-based Humanoid last week introduced KinetIQ Ascend, its reinforcement learning, or RL, approach designed to reach 99.9% manipulation reliability at human speed and beyond. “The humanoid race is becoming a question of scale, and…