Artificial Intelligence News
AI robotics combines perception, planning and learning with machines that act in the physical world. Follow developments in humanoid robots, autonomous systems, robotic manipulation and embodied intelligence. Our reports examine what was demonstrated, the conditions it worked under and the gap between a controlled trial and reliable deployment, with sources you can check and space to discuss the results.
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L&T Technology Services has opened an AI-focused manufacturing and operations lab in Bengaluru, making industrial AI a new business area as automation puts pressure on parts of its engineering work. The company says six strategic areas could grow from about half its revenue to 80% within five years.
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Amazon has more than a million warehouse robots and is expanding its fleet of robotic arms, including systems designed to handle a huge variety of products. Its newer machines use AI to make picking and sorting decisions, bringing a practical question into sharper focus: when robots work alongside…
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Kraft Heinz says it has automated about 85% of the work needed to adapt product listings when retailers change their rules, with people still reviewing the final 15%. As AI agents become another route to product discovery, the company’s example shows why brands are reworking how they organise…
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South Korea has opened a defence AI centre in Pangyo to develop robots for dangerous military work, including mine clearance and hazardous-material reconnaissance. It is the first of five planned hubs, linking military, academic and industry research as the country looks to use autonomous systems in its armed…
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The technology industry faces a 2027 test: turn years of investment into measurable returns, while dealing with supply-chain pressure and bigger questions about control of technology. Research firm Omdia expects AI spending to keep growing, but says businesses will be judged increasingly on productivity and return on investment.
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Researchers have built an AI model that identifies individual satellite components in radar images and tracks them across a sequence, even when a satellite rotates and a part disappears from view. The work, involving the Alan Turing Institute and the University of Birmingham, could help improve space monitoring…
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Nous Research has raised $90 million to expand its work on open AI models and agents, including a planned enterprise offering built around Hermes Agent. The financing gives the open-source AI developer fresh backing and a stated route into business use, though the enterprise product is still a…
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Suzlon plans to spend Rs 550 crore on three AI-enabled wind-blade factories in Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, with the facilities expected to be set up by 2027. The plan puts AI, automation and robotics into the making of wind equipment, rather than just the turbines themselves.
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Standard Bots says its industrial robot arms use AI to identify parts, while conventional programming handles the motion and surrounding cell logic. The approach offers a practical look at how AI is being adapted for factory work, where reliability and uptime matter more than a model’s parameter count.
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Singapore’s People’s Association will offer 25 beginner-friendly AI courses from November, alongside plans for a multilingual voice assistant and a community-centre robot concierge. The package moves AI from abstract policy talk into everyday services, with a clear price for residents and two more tools on the way.
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Researchers have developed H-JEPA, a world-model architecture that separates long-range planning from the detail needed for immediate actions. VentureBeat reports that, in simulated tests, its three-level version nearly doubled another model’s success rate on one navigation benchmark while using less planning compute.
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SoftBank is reportedly seeking up to $100bn from Gulf investors to expand its AI investments, including through a proposed fund that could buy companies and use AI and robotics to improve their operations. The plan would deepen the Japanese group’s already large technology push, but remains at the…
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The US Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health and Biohub have signed an agreement to build an open data foundation for AI models of living systems. The plan pairs large-scale biological research with AI, laboratory automation and supercomputing, aiming to help researchers predict how cells respond…
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GlobalFoundries has marked a major Dresden factory expansion and unveiled FDX Fusion, a planned chip platform for Physical AI. The investment could lift annual capacity at the site above one million 300mm wafers by the end of 2028, while the new platform is aimed at efficient computing in…
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Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute’s DARe centre and the University of Birmingham have built an AI model that identifies parts of satellites in orbital radar images. The work could help track what is happening to objects in increasingly busy orbits, though it remains research, not an operational…
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Bloom has raised $3.6 million to expand an AI-assisted marketplace that connects hardware companies with suppliers and service providers. The Detroit startup says its platform has already handled more than 2,000 matches, and it plans to build out financing and AI agents for procurement tasks.
