Commonwealth Fusion Systems installs reactor magnet, lands deal with Nvidia
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) said on Tuesday at CES 2026 that it had installed the first magnet in its Sparc fusion reactor, the demonstration device…
Category: Ai/Robotics
ANELLO launches compact navigation system for resilient drone operations
ANELLO Aerial INS supports precise navigation for UAVs and autonomous VTOLs. Source: ANELLO Reliable navigation is especially important in GPS-denied or contested environments such as…
NVIDIA releases new physical AI models, plus autonomous vehicle tools
NVIDIA partners such as Caterpillar (top left), LEM Surgical (top right), AGIBOT (bottom right), and Franka Robotics (bottom left) have used NVIDIA physical AI technologies…
Boston Dynamics, Google reunite on next-gen Atlas humanoid
You can sell Boston Dynamics, but you can’t fully quit it. Nearly a decade after Google sold the robotics company to SoftBank, the two are…
AMD unveils new AI PC processors for general use and gaming at CES
AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su kicked off her keynote at CES 2026 with a message about what compute could deliver: AI for everyone. As…
Microsoft’s Nadella wants us to stop thinking of AI as ‘slop’
A couple of weeks after Merriam-Webster named “slop” as its word of the year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighed in on what to expect from…
Nvidia wants to be the Android of generalist robotics
Nvidia released a new stack of robot foundation models, simulation tools, and edge hardware at CES 2026, moves that signal the company’s ambition to become…
Nvidia launches powerful new Rubin chip architecture
Today at the Consumer Electronics show, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang officially launched the company’s new Rubin computing architecture, which he described as the state of…
Nvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to ‘think like a human’
At CES 2026, Nvidia launched Alpamayo, a new family of open-source AI models, simulation tools, and datasets for training physical robots and vehicles that are…
Top 10 most popular robotics stories of 2025
In 2025, we saw big changes in the robotics industry. The fates of some well-known players in the ecosystem are uncertain, while other prominent companies…