📰 News SoftBank Puts $200 Million Behind Autonomous Excavators
Gravis retrofits excavators with sensors and AI so they can dig, trench, and load trucks with limited human supervision. SoftBank just bet $200M it scales globally.
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📰 News Lumos Robotics Bets on Factory Floor Results Over Humanoid Spectacle
While rivals chase viral demos, Lumos Robotics says reliability in real deployments is the only test that matters. Its MOS robot has 300 deliveries targeted this year.
📰 News Ornith-1.5 Writes Its Own Training Curriculum
Ornith-1.5 turns the training pipeline inside out: the model generates its own tasks, designs its own evaluation harnesses, and produces its own solution rollouts for reinforcement learning.
📰 News AI Can Engineer, But Can't Think — Princeton Study Punctures Recursive Self-Improvement Hype
AI agents ran hundreds of experiments and compiled results perfectly — then failed at the part that matters: knowing which questions to ask, and when to start over.
📰 News Stanford's AI Observatory Reveals What AI Companies Won't Show You
Company reports show the productive side of AI. Stanford's independent observatory shows the rest — and 48 per cent of conversations don't fit the corporate narrative.
📰 News Waymo Veterans Send Autonomous Excavators to Real Construction Sites
Three autonomous excavators are digging without human operators on commercial sites in Texas and Nevada. Bedrock Robotics, founded by Waymo veterans, says construction is harder than roads.
📰 News Companion Robots Enter Dementia Care — and the Question Is Whether Anyone Stays Interested
Four aged care homes in Western Australia will deploy Abi companion robots to support dementia residents. The trial asks the harder question: does engagement last beyond the first week?
📰 News The Humanoid Robot's First Real Job Might Be Welding Ships
Most humanoid companies chase factory floors and warehouses. Persona AI is betting on shipyard welding — a skilled trade with labour shortages, hundreds of kilometres of linear welds per ship, and tasks robots are naturally good at.
📰 News Two Numbers in Tesla's Q2 the Market Punished — and Why AI Investors Watched Something Else
Tesla's Q2 profit miss sent the stock down 12%, but two numbers buried in the report — Cortex compute deployment and unsupervised miles growth — may matter more for the AI thesis than the earnings beat the market was looking for.
📰 News Unitree's 629 Per Cent IPO Pop Tells You What Markets Think About Humanoid Robots
Unitree's Shanghai debut gave it a $62 billion market cap on day one — 262 times 2025 revenue. The shares retreated 23 per cent from the open but remain five times above the IPO price.
📰 News An AI Wrote the Bug, an AI Found It: The Copilot Autofix Chain That Pierced Snowflake
A Copilot Autofix suggestion removed a sanitizer from Snowflake's CI/CD pipeline. Five days later, Wiz's autonomous Red Agent exploited the gap and exfiltrated Jira credentials. AI wrote the vulnerability and AI found it.
📰 News LG and Nvidia Are Building a Humanoid Robot for 2027
LG and Nvidia plan to unveil a bipedal humanoid robot in early 2027, combining Nvidia's physical AI stack with LG's hardware and manufacturing expertise.