Korea's chaebol stack bets on factory robotics from chips to orchestration
Three separate Korean industrial moves in a single week point to a coordinated push to own the full robotics value chain for manufacturing, from on-device AI silicon to the software layer that directs heterogeneous robot fleets across facto…
Boston Dynamics spinout Dynamic Creatures bets on AI-driven character robots for theme parks
Dynamic Creatures, a Boston Dynamics spinout, emerged from stealth this week with a platform for mobile, interactive character robots targeting entertainment and hospitality venues . The Boston-based company is Boston Dynamics' official en…
PLA Builds Humanoid Combat Pipeline as Unitree Claims Autonomous Fighting
China's military is systematically building the foundation to deploy humanoid robots in combat, according to a Reuters investigation that reviewed more than 100 Chinese military procurement notices, academic studies, patents, government rec…
Alibaba Qwen Open-Sources 4B Driving Model Pairing Scene Understanding with Motion Planning
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B, an open-source vision-language model that combines driving-scene understanding with vehicle motion planning . The model was developed in collaboration with Huazhong University of Science a…