OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is Big Tech’s spiciest move away from Nvidia

Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume | AI News

The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners....

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z | AI News

Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world. ...

Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else | AI News

Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites. ...

Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard | AI News

Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California. ...

Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them | AI News

Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without...

Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone” | AI News

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationshi...

Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation | AI News

The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors....

Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise | AI News

Jay Li doesn’t recommend getting sued by Tesla if you’re trying to get a startup off the ground. But he does think his company, Proception...

Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal | AI News

Agility Robotics, the humanoid robotics startup that spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, expects to generate $620 million in proceeds. ...

Robots that learn

We’ve created a robotics system, trained entirely in simulation and deployed on a physical robot, which can learn a new task after seeing it done on...

Spam detection in the physical world

We’ve created the world’s first Spam-detecting AI trained entirely in simulation and deployed on a physical robot....

Learning concepts with energy functions

We’ve developed an energy-based model that can quickly learn to identify and generate instances of concepts, such as near, above, between, closest...

Learning dexterity

We’ve trained a human-like robot hand to manipulate physical objects with unprecedented dexterity....

Ingredients for robotics research

We’re releasing eight simulated robotics environments and a Baselines implementation of Hindsight Experience Replay, all developed for our research ...

Multi-Goal Reinforcement Learning: Challenging robotics environments and request for research

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Generalizing from simulation

Our latest robotics techniques allow robot controllers, trained entirely in simulation and deployed on physical robots, to react to unplanned changes ...

Sim-to-real transfer of robotic control with dynamics randomization

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Asymmetric actor critic for image-based robot learning

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Domain randomization and generative models for robotic grasping

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Faster physics in Python

We’re open-sourcing a high-performance Python library for robotic simulation using the MuJoCo engine, developed over our past year of robotics resea...

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OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is Big Tech’s spiciest move away from Nvidia