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Google and its partners opened pre-orders today for the first "Intelligent Eyewear" collections running Android XR, with Warby Parker frames starting at $395 and Gentle Monster at $449. The glasses ship December 10. Google is adding privacy protections for both the wearer and…
J.P. Morgan estimates that humanoid robot production in the United States will reach 300,000 to 400,000 units annually by 2030 and roughly 1.5 million by 2035, according to a research note published Thursday. The bank frames the forecast as a signal that the industry is moving…
IBM and Microsoft on Tuesday announced Imagine Enterprise, a jointly developed agentic AI platform aimed at moving enterprise AI projects from pilots into production. The platform combines IBM Consulting's library of prebuilt AI agents with Microsoft's cloud, security and…
Columbus, Ohio–based Path Robotics has closed a $300 million Series E round at a $2.45 billion post-money valuation, nearly quadrupling its previous valuation, the company announced Tuesday. Georgian, an AI-focused growth-equity firm, led the round with participation from…
Google DeepMind announced Gemini Robotics 2.5 on November 10, calling it its most capable vision-language-action (VLA) model to date. The model is rolling out to robotics partners — not the public — after a proof-of-concept run on Mercedes-Benz production lines where Apptronik's…
Fiber-optic guided drones have become a staple of the war in Ukraine. Because they communicate through a physical cable rather than radio signals, they cannot be jammed by electronic warfare systems that routinely ground conventional first-person-view (FPV) quadcopters. But the…
Nvidia has published four open-weight checkpoints under its new Cosmos 3 platform, targeting researchers building interactive world simulators for robotics and autonomous driving. The models—Cosmos3-Nano-Transfer-Auto, Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Auto, Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Transfer, and…
Defense technology company Shield AI announced November 5 that it has agreed to acquire radar manufacturer Echodyne Corp. in a transaction valued at $5.3 billion, while simultaneously raising $2.5 billion in new capital at a $28.8 billion post-money valuation — more than double…
Agility Robotics began trading on the Nasdaq today under the ticker AGLT, completing a SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI that makes it the first U.S. publicly listed company focused solely on humanoid robots. The deal values Agility's existing equity at $2.5 billion and…
Meta has developed a humanoid robot prototype in collaboration with Chinese robotics startup Fourier and is already working on a successor, according to a report from The Information citing people familiar with the project.