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Humanoid is NVIDIA’s AI stack to cut the development cycles for the HMND 01 Alpha humanoid to seven months.

Qualcomm said its new architecture supports advanced perception and motion planning with end-to-end AI models.

Mobileye is acquiring Mentee Robotics for $900 million to pursue leadership in both autonomous driving and humanoid robotics.

ANELLO has developed an inertial navigation system based on its SiPhOG technology for reliable navigation in GNSS-denied environments.

NVIDIA released Cosmos, GR00T, and Alpamayo open models to help developers build reasoning machines including robots and vehicles.

In a 60 Minutes segment, Boston Dynamics provided a glimpse at how its Atlas humanoid is becoming more capable.

Miniaturization offers robotics designers new levels of power efficiency, nimbleness, and precision for a range of applications.

Teradar claimed its terahertz chip technology is superior to lidar and radar for all-weather vision for autonomous vehicles.

ACCES I/O Products said the module comes in a small, rugged design ideal for embedded and OEM applications.

This collaboration combines Advantech’s edge AI platforms with the Dragonwing IQ-9075 processor and the Edge Impulse developer platform.

The latest Omniverse updates enable U.S. companies to overcome labor shortages and drive reindustrialization, said NVIDIA. 

Intel has the first Panther Lake SKU slated to ship before the end of the year, with broad market availability starting January 2026.

While there’s a lot of hype around this particular piece of kit, but NVIDIA Jetson Thor isn’t the only game in town.

Kodiak is integrating NXP technology into its Kodiak Actuation Control Engine, which manages vehicle actuation.

Orbbec says its Pulsar ME450 sensor can switch scanning modes so that robots don’t need to switch between devices for navigation or 3D reconstruction.

Torc, Flex, and NVIDIA have partnered to develop a scalable AI compute system for autonomous trucks, aiming for 2027 commercial launch.

Foresight said this latest integration is geared toward autonomous drones, a new technology for the perception company.

Primech AI has used NVIDIA Jetson Orin Super and software development tools to boost HYTRON’s cleaning efficiency.

Contextual AI 2.0, which runs vision language models on Ambrarella N1, helps robots understand their environments, said Ottonomy.

NVIDIA’s CES announcements, including Omniverse updates, show that it is doubling down on AI investments for robotics.

RoboSense says its new and incremental components will enable the development of industrial, commercial, and humanoid robots.

The STM32N6 microcontroller is the most powerful to date from STMicroelectronics and the first to embed its neural processing unit.