Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs has published FLUX 3 Action on Hugging Face, a model that plans a robot's next moves and can be fine-tuned for new robots. The weights are open to download, and commercial use depends on the license terms.
Stanford
HomeBody, from The Movement Lab at Stanford, lets a vision-language model direct a humanoid robot's ready-made skills. The robot explores a kitchen it has never seen, builds a digital twin of it and cleans up from a spoken-style instruction.
Vsim
The Cambridge start-up runs millions of virtual attempts to train robot skills in minutes, while Nvidia scales the same approach with AI agents.
Reward AI
Reward AI unveiled OM-1, a manipulation policy trained only on human demonstrations captured by a sensorized glove, with no teleoperation or on-robot data.
Teradyne
Teradyne filed against JAKA's German entity at the Unified Patent Court over three patents covering robot joints and a touchscreen interface.
Skild AI
Skild AI says its S1 robot foundation model, launched last week, can learn unseen tasks lasting up to 10 minutes from one video demonstration, with no retraining.
Axis Robotics
Axis Robotics and academic partners released AXIS, a browser-based teleoperation and data engine holding 207 manipulation tasks and 50,129 episodes.
NVIDIA
An AWS engineering post shows how Cosmos 3 runs synthetic data generation, post-training and closed-loop evaluation as three workloads on one persistent GPU pool.
XDOF
The robot teleoperation data startup is in late-stage talks for a round led by 8VC, with annualized revenue approaching $50 million.
openroboto
Robbyant's Apache-2.0 vision-language-action model is now the base of a community tournament on OpenRoboto: everyone fine-tunes, everyone is measured under identical conditions, and only a strictly better model becomes the next base.
Meta
Meta is trialling robots that plug in cables and restart servers in its data centers, Ars Technica reports, citing current and former workers.
tesla
Tesla's humanoid takes on household chores in a new demo. To Musk, this is not just a robot; it is the rehearsal for the biggest product ever made.