Tech News – AI, robotika, humanoidy a automatizácia – Strana 17

Eclipse's $1.3B Fund Makes Physical AI a Standalone VC Category

Eclipse Ventures closes a $1.3B fund dedicated to physical AI, combining robotics and embodied AI investment with a startup incubation model.

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Antioch Raises $8.5M to Build the Developer Tools Layer for Physical AI

Antioch raised $8.5M to build Cursor-style developer tooling for physical AI simulation, targeting robot builders underserved by NVIDIA Isaac and MuJoCo.

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Physical Intelligence's π0.7 Robot Brain Handles Tasks It Was Never Trained On

Physical Intelligence's π0.7 model claims zero-shot task generalisation for robots — executing unfamiliar tasks without task-specific training.

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Embodied AI in Orbit: How ISS Robotics Is Reshaping Humanoid Development

Icarus Robotics is deploying embodied AI on the ISS — and the manipulation lessons from microgravity are reshaping how humanoid robots are built on Earth.

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1X Neo Costs $20,000 and Still Needs a Human Inside

The 1X Neo humanoid home robot costs $20,000 but still relies on remote human operators — raising serious questions about value and privacy.

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AI-Powered Robotic Fingertips Are Giving Surgeons Back Their Sense of Touch

EU-funded PALPABLE project builds an AI-powered soft robotic fingertip that restores tactile feedback to robotic surgery via fibre-optic sensing.

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Graphene Tactile Skin Gives Humanoid Robots a Human-Like Touch

Cambridge researchers publish a graphene-based tactile sensor in Nature Materials that detects 3D force, slip, and texture at human fingertip resolution — a key gap for humanoid robots.

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Imitation Learning Goes Commercial: RoboTwin Lets Workers Train Robots in Minutes

Czech startup RoboTwin lets factory workers train industrial robots by physical demonstration in under a minute, no coding required — bringing imitation learning to SME manufacturers.

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MIT's Wall-Seeing AI Solves Warehouse Robots' Biggest Perception Problem

MIT's Wave-Former and RISE systems use generative AI with mmWave radar to reconstruct hidden objects and full rooms, boosting robot perception accuracy by up to 2×.

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Driverless Trucks Are Here: Volvo Autonomous Solutions on the Driver Shortage Fix

Volvo Autonomous Solutions moves driverless trucks into early commercial deployment as a 60,000-driver US shortage makes autonomous freight economics unavoidable.

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GPT-4 Powered Robotic Guide Dogs Can Navigate and Narrate in Real Time

Binghamton University's GPT-4 robotic guide dog narrates routes and surroundings in real time, tested with 7 blind users at AAAI 2026.

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Locus Array Launches as Mobile Manipulation Enters the Lights-Out Warehouse Race

Locus Robotics launches Array, a fully autonomous mobile manipulation system for aisle picking, competing with Boston Dynamics Stretch in the race to lights-out warehousing.

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AGIBOT Genie Studio Agent Brings Zero-Code Deployment to Physical AI

AGIBOT launches Genie Studio Agent, a zero-code platform enabling non-engineers to deploy robot applications through drag-and-drop workflows, already validated in semiconductor manufacturing.

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Stereolabs ZED X Nano: Wrist-Mounted Camera Benchmarked Against RealSense and OAK

Ouster's Stereolabs ZED X Nano delivers 1920×1200 stereo vision at 120fps with sub-millimeter depth accuracy and GMSL2 connectivity for robotic wrist mounting.

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This Week in Robots: Atlas Bows Out, a Collective That Cannot Die, and a Home Robot That Folds Laundry

Atlas retires, an EPFL collective robot grows more reliable as modules fail, and Weave Robotics ships a laundry-folding robot to homes in February 2026.

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Humanoid Robot Performance Showdown: Spring 2025's Best Demos Ranked

Unitree, PNDbotics, Engine AI, and Humanoid UK all drop spring 2025 demo footage — here's how they stack up on performance, price, and deployment readiness.