On 30 July Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a family spanning a vision-language-action model, a reasoning model and an on-device model, and for the first time delivering whole-body control of a humanoid. Google’s play is simple to state: own the robot brain layer. In the phone era it sold few handsets but reached most … Read more
Five days separated the two events, and nearly ten thousand kilometres. On 27 July Baidu’s Apollo Go began public-road testing with nobody in the vehicle at all on Hong Kong’s airport island, the first fully driverless deployment anywhere in a left-side, right-hand-drive traffic system. On 28 July its sixth-generation RT6 appeared on the streets of … Read more
India’s artificial-intelligence ambition has run into an uncomfortable truth. Two years after Delhi launched its India AI Mission and hosted what it called the largest-ever AI impact summit, the country still has no frontier model of its own and little local AI infrastructure. That leaves Indian firms dependent on American GPUs and, increasingly, on cheaper … Read more
On 28 July, the Trump administration unveiled a ban on new categories of Chinese robots and grid-tied inverters, aimed at protecting US manufacturing and reshoring industries the administration expects to grow explosively. The Federal Communications Commission made it formal that afternoon. Imports of advanced Chinese robotic equipment, such as humanoids and quadrupeds with networking functions, … Read more
A week after its cheapest-ever model sparked talk of a pricing kill line, DeepSeek announced it will raise API prices. On 6 August the company told its developer platform that pricing would rise soon by a large margin, and users began receiving emails. The message was blunt: keep using after the change and you accept … Read more
Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics On 5 June, Daxiao Robot, with CUHK’s Multimedia Lab and the Hetao institute, released Kairos-HomeWorld, the first world-model framework to do full-house generation with object-level interaction. It breaks the industry ceiling where indoor generation covered only single rooms with no global consistency or operability, generating coherent, physically … Read more
Image related to the story. Source: LeiPhone AI large models are evolving from a business and product into the infrastructure a company runs on. Past software and hardware firms organised by product; AI was one feature among many. After models arrived, AI moved into product definition, user interaction and service distribution. Globally, the shifts are … Read more
Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics China is crossing from “manufacturing giant” to “smart-manufacturing power,” and industrial software, CAE simulation, fluid dynamics and electromagnetic EDA, is the core bridge. Domestic tools have advanced fast in algorithms and physics modelling, but at the front line of aerospace, chip design and energy, they hit one … Read more
Image related to the story. Source: LeiPhone Paul Meade, the Apple vice president who led the Vision Pro team, is leaving for OpenAI’s hardware team, according to Bloomberg. The move follows a reshuffle after Apple’s new CEO took over, which left Meade “effectively demoted.” As John Ternus succeeded Tim Cook as Apple’s next CEO, longtime … Read more
Image related to the story. Source: Sohu IT OpenAI’s first AI hardware is perhaps the most mysterious Schrodinger product of the past two years. We still do not know what it looks like, but every few months we get a new answer. First a smart pen, then a lamp, glasses, wearables. After so many rumours, … Read more