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Generalist’s latest embodied foundation model, GEN-1, now supports a broad range of robot end effectors. The company said GEN-1 is compatible with five-fingered hands to specialized tools with new modes of actuation and everything in between. By training GEN-1 to work with these new hands, Generalist said it is demonstrating that a single base AI…

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…

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A robot carries three voxels as it walks across a voxel structure. Modular Inchworm Lattice Assembler robots, or MILAbots, use grippers on each end to place voxel building blocks and engage the snap-fit connections. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers. By Adam Zewe Robotically assembled building blocks could be a more environmentally friendly method for erecting…

The Boston robotics scene got a jolt on Wednesday when a secretive startup founded this year with ties to MIT and automotive giant Toyota revealed it raised $300 million to build a line of AI-powered, partially humanoid machines. Walden Robotics spun out from Toyota Research Institute with work by MIT professor Russ Tedrake on developing…