AI Incident Channel: China and US to Alert Each Other
The two rivals in AI development plan to warn each other when systems misbehave, though the reporting path itself has not been spelled out.
The two rivals in AI development plan to warn each other when systems misbehave, though the reporting path itself has not been spelled out.
The robots are meant to work straight from engineering drawings instead of code. Shipments start in December; Nikkei gives no price and no customer.
Roughly 30 humanoids and robot dogs circled outside Poland's digital ministry; the organizers want a public debate on AI and jobs.
The Swiss seed round targets waste-to-energy sites: 50 million labeled images, 99 percent hazard detection — figures the company has not opened up.
Trading house Sumitomo leads a plan to check runways, lights and other airport infrastructure automatically, aiming to double maintenance efficiency.
Tokyo and plant operator Tepco are assembling a consortium, due to start as early as this fiscal year, to tackle 880 tons of debris in three reactors.
The 25-centimeter biped lifts up to 800 grams with its beak and learns new tricks through reinforcement learning in simulation first.
The Microsoft co-founder describes the shift to AI as one of history's most turbulent phases and wants oversight bodies instead of industry self-policing.
The extension lifts the 2024-founded startup's Series B to $600 million, just two months after a $2 billion valuation in June.
The New York startup trains AI agents on hundreds of millions of hours of gameplay — and has nearly tripled its valuation within months.
The new unit Dogotix is valued at over $6.3 billion. Tencent and Alibaba are investing, and IRON mass production is set to start by the end of 2026.
The machines are developed by London start-up Humanoid, with Bosch as contract manufacturer. Schaeffler is the first customer. The robots are to be leased, not sold.
The opening day of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing produced a number long treated as a human limit. The comparison is flawed — and still marks a turning point.
Former Nvidia researcher Sanja Fidler has raised over $90 million for world-model startup Veeda AI — one of Canada's largest seed rounds ever.
A Reuters investigation traces how Pentagon-funded research at MIT and UPenn laid the groundwork for China's robotics star Unitree — up to its record IPO.
The Nevada Transportation Authority cleared Tesla for up to 5,000 paid robotaxis, Waymo and Uber for 1,000 each, and Zoox for 100 — all in Clark County.
Prime Air is set to fly in nearly 500 US cities by year-end — a sixfold expansion. Autonomous drones deliver packages up to 5 lbs in 30 minutes.
The Hangzhou robot maker is the first listed humanoid robotics company on the Chinese mainland. The offering was oversubscribed more than eight thousand times – a record for the Star Market.
Dancing, kung-fu fighting robots fill social feeds while Unitree fills its books: 5,500+ humanoids shipped and a $623 million Shanghai listing.
The embodied-AI startup closes Series A and A+ rounds worth about $140 million — for a world model that learns from first-person data.
Gestures and eye contact build rapport — but after errors, expressive robots' influence drops by more than half, a Science Robotics brain study shows.
Uber and Pony.ai plan over 2,000 robotaxis in Europe – expanding beyond Zagreb into four more cities, with local partners running the fleets.