🤖 Brains Start Remixing
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Robot Brains Start Remixing
TL;DR: Physical Intelligence unveiled π0.7, a robot model that can combine previously learned skills to tackle unfamiliar tasks it was never explicitly trained on. In one demo, it figured out how to use an air fryer after seeing only fragments of related data. Researchers say the biggest surprise is not the stunts, but that robots are beginning to generalize like large language models do.
Nvidia Builds Endless Worlds
TL;DR: Nvidia introduced Lyra 2.0, a system that can turn a single photo into a coherent 3D environment stretching up to 90 meters. By remembering previously generated geometry and training against its own errors, Lyra 2.0 avoids the drift and inconsistency that plague earlier models. Nvidia says the scenes can be exported into tools like Nvidia Isaac Sim, giving robots a way to train in synthetic worlds without real-world scans.
Grab Turns Into an AI Layer
TL;DR: Grab unveiled 13 new AI products at GrabX 2026, led by Carri, a delivery robot designed to help drivers find restaurants and hand off orders faster. Rather than replacing workers, Grab is using AI to reduce waiting time, speed up deliveries, and expand into travel, payments, shopping, lending, and merchant tools across Southeast Asia.
Robot Learns Tennis Instincts
TL;DR: A humanoid robot developed by Tsinghua University and Galbot achieved a 90.9% forehand return rate in real-time tennis rallies by using a training framework called LATENT. Instead of relying on perfect motion capture, the system learned from noisy amateur tennis data, allowing the robot to predict trajectories, reposition itself, and sustain rallies in dynamic environments.
Army Tests Combat Robots
TL;DR: The United States Army is testing the Hunter Wolf unmanned ground robotic vehicle alongside the 101st Airborne Division in combat drills, pairing it with a .50-caliber machine gun and EchoShield radar. Originally designed to carry supplies, the robot is now being used for reconnaissance, security, and battlefield support, showing how armed ground robots are moving from experiments into real military operations.
Factory Robots Go Live
TL;DR: AGIBOT deployed its semi-humanoid G2 robots into Longcheer Technology tablet production lines, marking one of the first large-scale embodied AI rollouts in consumer electronics manufacturing. The robots handle testing, loading, sorting, and navigation tasks with over 99% success rates, while Longcheer plans to scale deployment to 100 robots by Q3 2026.
Light-Switched Soft Electronics
TL;DR: MIT engineers developed a soft gel that becomes up to 400 times more conductive when exposed to light, potentially bridging electronics and biological tissue. Built using photo-ion generators embedded in polyurethane rubber, the material could open new possibilities for wearables, soft robotics, biomedical devices, and human-machine interfaces.
Skild Buys Warehouse Robots
TL;DR: Skild AI acquired the robotics division of Zebra Technologies, including the former Fetch Robotics business, to pair its hardware-agnostic “Skild Brain” with proven warehouse robots and fleet software. The deal gives Skild real deployment experience, more industrial data, and a faster path toward building a unified intelligence layer for logistics and automation.
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