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Perceptron, founded by two former Meta FAIR scientists, launched Isaac 0.5, an open-weight vision model designed to help robots perceive, reason, and act in warehouses and factories.
At last week's Actuate conference, physical-AI developers described their field as being in a "GPT-2 era" — capable robots without the training data needed to make them commercially reliable.
Hearing tech startup Legato emerged from stealth with $12 million in funding and its first AI hearing glasses, Legato Frames, expected to launch later this fall.
Generalist, a robotics startup, is now valued at $3 billion after raising nearly $200 million in additional capital led by 8VC, according to two people with knowledge of the funding.
Waymo said Tuesday it plans to launch a robotaxi service in Munich, expecting to open commercial ride-hailing to the public toward the end of 2027 pending regulatory approval.
Pacific Fusion broke ground Tuesday on a New Mexico facility designed to demonstrate net facility gain — generating as much energy as it consumes — a milestone no fusion device has yet reached.
OpenAI shared benchmark results for its in-house inference chip, Jalapeño, showing better tokens-per-user and throughput-per-kilowatt than Nvidia's current state-of-the-art system, with small-volume deployment expected by the end of 2026.
Apple introduced the M5 Ultra and M6 chips, with the M5 Ultra fusing two M5 Max dies into Apple's first quad-die chip for its new Mac Studio.
Self-driving box-truck startup Gatik has raised $200 million, its largest round to date, just two months after striking a multiyear commercial deal with PepsiCo.
Apple unveiled a new Mac Mini running its M6 chip, with a $899 base model available for preorder now and shipping after September 22.
Google's Pixel 11 Pro XL brings snappier cameras, a new AI dictation tool called Rambler, and Gemini upgrades, but remains a mostly iterative update from last year's model.
Core Devices, founded by original Pebble creator Eric Migicovsky, has sold more than 25,000 units of its $225 Pebble Time 2 smartwatch across 93 countries.
Tesla has quietly killed its nearly decade-old solar roof, scrubbing it from its website after installs never grew beyond a few dozen a week.
A proposed class action accuses Oura of overstating its smart ring's sleep-tracking accuracy, alleging its estimates are little better than a coin flip.
Tesla is recalling just shy of 3 million vehicles in China, joining 10 other automakers in a nationwide push to flag hidden emergency door releases.
Linkdaze's touchscreen tablet syncs multiple family calendars, adds an AI meal planner, and skips the monthly subscription fee competitors charge.
Fusion startup Inertia Enterprises says it has cut the time to make its fuel pellets from several days to just minutes.
Startup Apollo Atomics closed a $26 million seed round, including $5 million in debt, to build a compact steam generator it says can make a reactor 40 times smaller than conventional designs.
Waymo has opened its next-generation Ojai robotaxi, built with Chinese automaker Zeekr, to all riders in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco, with about 300 Ojais now in its commercial fleet.
A wave of competition — led by upstart Base Power, which has raised $2 billion in less than a year — is driving down the price of home battery systems as virtual power plants make them commercially viable.