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ZEALS's newly announced semi-humanoid "D1" deliberately abandons bipedal walking, adopting a dual-arm design mounted on a wheeled base to achieve a starting price of 5 million yen. By placing the collection and learning cycle of field data at the core of its business, the company is exploring a path to humanoid commercialization from Japan that differs from the routes taken by the US and China.
A concept that breaks through the 30-minute flight limit of small drones by supplying RF power while the drone remains landed has won a US Air Force STTR contract. As laser-based systems handle long-range, high-power delivery, radio-wave systems—resilient to obstructions—are emerging as the choice for sustained surveillance in urban environments.
Google DeepMind has pushed into whole-body humanoid control with Gemini Robotics 2. While the reasoning model is publicly available, the motion VLA remains limited in access, and safety evaluation challenges persist.
Reports indicate that Tesla is considering spinning off, selling, or otherwise separating its China business in anticipation of a potential merger with SpaceX. While the move is said to be aimed at protecting classified information tied to U.S. defense contracts, separating the Shanghai facility—Tesla's manufacturing linchpin—could significantly affect its production base.
The US FCC has added foreign-manufactured communications-enabled mobile robots to its Covered List, effectively halting certification of new models. Existing units and federal government products are exempt, while foreign manufacturers face a choice: shift production to the US or seek conditional approval from the Department of Defense.
Sam Altman declared that AI is "inside the singularity," but OpenAI's latest evaluation rates self-improvement capability below High. Starting from the Hugging Face intrusion incident, this piece examines the boundary between accelerating autonomy and containment.
We verify ADATA Chairman's prediction that 'the memory shortage will last for the next 10 years' against primary sources from Micron and SK hynix. We break down the structure by which HBM's wafer consumption and capacity expansion plans extending through 2033 will delay a recovery in supply.
Seoul National University's Ouroboros reuses ViT computation results by leveraging motion information from video. With Jetson Orin's peak figures as the benchmark, reproducibility against complex motion and device differences will be the key factor for practical adoption.
At SIGGRAPH 2026, NVIDIA presents 21 research works linking 3D environment generation, physics computation, motion generation, and Unitree G1 control. Here's a look at what code has been released and what verification remains before practical deployment.
GenCeption, developed by a team including Google DeepMind, repurposes the internal representations of video generation AI to jointly estimate multiple visual quantities such as depth and surface normals. It quantitatively demonstrates that pretraining for video generation is effective for understanding the structure of the world, achieving accuracy comparable to specialized models with minimal additional training.
