A3 releases full three-part national safety standard for industrial robots
The standard outlines all of the latest industrial robot workcells and application safety guarding requirements. | Image generated by Gemini AI The Association for Advancing…
Category: Ai/Robotics
A consumer watchdog issued a warning about Google’s AI agent shopping protocol — Google says she’s wrong
Shortly after Google announced its new Universal Commerce Protocol for AI-powered shopping agents, a consumer economics watchdog sounded the alarm. In a now viral post…
X Square Robot secures $140M in funding for AI foundation models
The Quanta X2 semi-humanoid robot Source: X Square Robot While artificial intelligence has advanced with large language models, or LLMs, robots need to understand the…
Ring founder details the camera company’s ‘intelligent assistant’ era
What does it take to bring a burned-out founder back to the company he sold to Amazon? For Jamie Siminoff of the video doorbell maker…
Doctors think AI has a place in healthcare – but maybe not as a chatbot
Dr. Sina Bari, a practicing surgeon and AI healthcare leader at data company iMerit, has seen firsthand how ChatGPT can lead patients astray with faulty…
Neo humanoid maker 1X releases world model to help bots learn what they see
1X, the robotics company behind the Neo humanoid robot, has unveiled a new AI model that it says understands the dynamics of the real world…
ElevenLabs CEO says the voice AI startup crossed $330 million ARR last year
ElevenLabs, the AI voice generation startup, crossed $330 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), CEO Mati Staniszewski said in an interview with Bloomberg. “Really, what…
4 physical AI predictions for 2026 – and beyond, from UR
Physical AI such as this force- and power-limited arm will get smarter thanks to math and collaboration, says a UR VP. Source: Universal Robots The…
Apple launches ‘Creator Studio’ bundle of apps for $12.99 per month
Apple is launching a new Creator Studio subscription bundle that offers access to six creative apps as well as premium content in iWork apps, the…
Deepgram raises $130M at $1.3B valuation and buys a YC AI startup
Usage of voice AI in sales, marketing, customer support, and consumer applications has shot up in the last few years. As a result, model providers…