#robotics

UK government grants support AI scientists that automate lab experiments, changing scientific workflows.

'DeepMind's new SIMA 2, powered by Gemini, learns to navigate and solve tasks across games like Goat Simulator 3 and procedurally generated worlds, improving through generated tips and retries.'

Gemini Robotics 1.5 splits high-level embodied reasoning and low-level visuomotor control to enable agentic, multi-step robot behavior and zero-shot motion transfer across heterogeneous platforms

'MIT shows that on-policy reinforcement learning preserves prior capabilities better than supervised fine-tuning by minimizing forward KL divergence between the base and fine-tuned models.'

'NVIDIA introduced Jetson Thor, a high‑performance module and developer kit that brings server‑grade multimodal inference and generative reasoning to robotics at the edge. The platform pairs a Blackwell GPU with a focused software stack to enable real‑time perception, planning and action.'

RoboBrain 2.0 from BAAI integrates vision and language understanding to advance embodied AI in robotics, offering scalable models and superior reasoning for complex tasks.

Hugging Face launches SmolVLA, an efficient and affordable vision-language-action model enabling real-time robotic control on low-cost hardware with open-source resources.

Vision Language Models combined with Chain-of-Thought reasoning are enabling AI to interpret images with human-like explanations, transforming industries such as healthcare, autonomous vehicles, and education.

Gemini Robotics combines cutting-edge AI reasoning with physical world interaction, enabling robots to perform complex tasks with precision and adaptability.