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- 🗓️ 2026-10-22 · ✍️ RoboterminalEka's Robot Picks 1,500 Things an Hour. Its Gripper Is Rated for About 139 Days of That.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-14 · ✍️ RoboterminalThe Pi API Beta Is a Four-Day Loop. The Demo Is Not the Rate.
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What changed, and what is the evidence.
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Lux family co @modal x @nvidia new Vera CPU... https://t.co/pH6lxp1Y4A |
$SPY rose 0.48% to $766.91 today, with AI and chip stocks leading a bounce after last week's selloff. Here are the top stories you need to know. 1. Chip stocks bounced back as the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose about 2% to snap an… |
Nvidia wins fast-growing AI startup Modal for new central processorsv\ Modal, a cloud-computing startup that rents out computing power to AI developers, said it plans to start using Nvidia's new Vera central processor for the first time… |
Expert Takeaways: Unitree Humanoids > Robot chips split into low-compute parts (e.g., Rockchip RK3588, 6 TOPS) for low latency/fast communication and high-compute parts for high-bandwidth throughput. > Rockchip controls ~95% of the… |
We sat down with Russ Hughes of Desoutter Tools. He explains how connected manufacturing platforms are helping manufacturers unify fragmented assembly operations. https://t.co/1I9scEJyMY #ConnectedManufacturing #SmartManufacturing… |
Elon has called the Optimus hand one of the hardest parts of the robot. Tesla just published a patent that points to one piece of that puzzle--a tactile skin that can follow the curved surfaces of a robot hand. Think of it as giving the… |
🎙️ What does it take to build robots that truly understand and interact with the physical world? At #IROS2026, PaXini joined a series of academic and industry exchanges exploring the foundations and future of embodied AI. From task-driven… |
Foundation models trained only on internet text and 2D images hit an immediate wall in industrial environments. Real-world physical AI requires spatial intelligence, force vectors, and multi-modal edge telemetry gathered directly where… |
One robot. Eight different ways to move. 🤯🤖 Meet M4 the Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot, a bio-inspired robot developed by researchers at Caltech’s Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST) and Northeastern University M4 can… |
The LimX Luna is a full-size general-purpose humanoid robot developed by LimX Dynamics, a Shenzhen-based robotics company that specializes in embodied AI systems, multi-modal robot platforms, and hardware-software integration for… |
The infrastructure move I did not expect this quarter: Google quietly reinventing Kubernetes for a workload it was never built for. This week Jaana Dogan gave it a name: Agent Substrate. The problem is specific. Standard Kubernetes is… |
Kubernetes won the container decade by scheduling processes that run for seconds or minutes. Agents do not work like that, and Google just open sourced the runtime built for the difference. Jaana Dogan's team shipped Agent Substrate this… |
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is a different bet. Not "better language model". Omni-modal from the ground up. One model that handles: → Text, image, audio, video in → Text and audio out → Real-time inference at flash speeds The architecture isn't a… |
Atlas-950 SuperCluster service will start service in HW Cloud on 9/30 in domestic mkt & 11/30 for oversea. Apparently, Minimax demonstration integration w/ HW Cloud & Atlas w/ its multi-modal models. Looks like DS, Zai & Minimax are all… |
Lux family co @modal led by @bernhardsson lineup for their RUNTIME event just released.... serious minds doing very serious things https://t.co/e7dBZaHn4M |
The harness is now the API. That's the real headline from OpenAI's Agents API public beta launch on Sep 10. Before this week, if you wanted to build on Codex's harness, you had to replicate it yourself. Orchestration, long-running… |
OpenAI launched the Agents API public beta on Sep 10 with something that hasn't existed before: a managed remote execution layer for coding agents. The Codex harness handles the sandbox. You define the task, the agent runs in a cloud… |
The Agents API is not a new framework. It is the agent loop becoming managed infrastructure. Before yesterday you wrote the harness yourself. You owned the environment, the retries, the state compaction, the tool routing, the subagent… |
The agent harness just got commoditized. OpenAI launched the Agents API on September 10 in public beta. One API call gets you cloud sandboxes, long-running sessions, tool use, and multi-agent orchestration. OpenAI handles the scaffolding.… |
OpenAI's Agents API went into public beta today. No extra fees beyond usage. Every developer gets the same harness that runs Codex internally. The execution environment options are what matter. OpenAI-hosted sandboxes, self-hosted, or… |
Lux family co @modal expands in EUROPE! An amazing fast-growing company to work at... https://t.co/xj8lGDJdOC |