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News and Updates:

Gemini Robotics 1.5

Gemini Robotics 1.5 from Google DeepMind marks the official introduction of agentic capabilities to robots, allowing them to complete complex, multi-step tasks.

Reachy Mini

Hugging Face, via its recent acquisition of Pollen Robotics, has unveiled Reachy Mini, a compact and affordable open‑source desktop humanoid kit (starting at $299) designed for expressive human‑robot interaction, creative coding, and AI experimentation—featuring motorized head and body rotation, animated antennas, audio‑visual sensors, pre‑loaded behaviors, and compatibility with Hugging Face’s AI model ecosystem, with shipping beginning fall 2025.

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Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics partners with RAI Institute, combining reinforcement learning and motion capture to let Atlas robots master smoother, human-like movements.

Nvidia GR00T N1

NVIDIA Announces Isaac GR00T N1 — the World’s First Open Humanoid Robot Foundation Model — and Simulation Frameworks to Speed Robot DevelopmentNVIDIA Newsroom

Nvidia introduces GR00T N1, the world's first open-source, fully customizable foundation model designed for generalized humanoid robot reasoning and skills.

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Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) have announced a groundbreaking partnership that combines their expertise in robotics and AI to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots, leveraging TRI's Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot platform.

Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute Announce Partnership to Advance Robotics Research - Toyota USA NewsroomToyota USA Newsroom

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Nvidia Generative Physical AI

NVIDIA today announced that the world’s leaders in robot development are adopting the NVIDIA Isaac™ robotics platform for the research, development and production of the next generation of AI-enabled autonomous machines and robots.

Isaac:

https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac

More info:

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/robotics-industry-development-ai-autonomous-machines

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NVIDIA introduced GR00T at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2024. It will enable the robot to understand multimodal instructions like language, video, and motion.

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Resources:

Awesome Weekly Robotics

https://github.com/msadowski/awesome-weekly-robotics?tab=readme-ov-file