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PlusAI reaches β€˜93.4 percent safety readiness’ ahead of autonomous truck launch

10 August 2026 at 17:11
PlusAI says it has reached 93.4 percent β€œSafety Case Readiness” as the autonomous trucking company moves toward the planned commercial launch of factory-built driverless trucks in 2027. The company has published updated performance figures for the first half of 2026, showing improvements in safety validation, autonomous driving and the number of journeys completed without assistance […]

Beyond VLAs: How World Action Models Reshape Robot Manipulation

4 August 2026 at 16:00
A GIF of a robot following directions” with a description of the actual robot, task, objects, and motion shown.A central challenge in robotics is building policies that generalize beyond the demonstrations they’re trained on. A policy that succeeds in a training scene...A GIF of a robot following directions” with a description of the actual robot, task, objects, and motion shown.

A central challenge in robotics is building policies that generalize beyond the demonstrations they’re trained on. A policy that succeeds in a training scene often fails when object shapes, positions, or lighting change. Generalizing to these new conditions requires the policy to understand the tasks underlying physics, not just mimic the demonstrations. This ability comes from the backbone it’s…

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Atlas Energy to expand Kodiak-powered autonomous truck fleet to 100 vehicles by 2027

31 July 2026 at 15:23
Atlas Energy SolutionsΒ has expanded its autonomous truck operations in the Permian Basin, advancing its commitment to unlocking energy by digitally transforming oilfield logistics. Working with Kodiak AI, a provider of physical AI-powered autonomous driving technology, Atlas is expanding its driverless proppant delivery program to a second simultaneous load-out point along its 42-mile Dune Express sand […]

Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 as Apptronik humanoid demonstrates whole-body AI

31 July 2026 at 10:26
Google DeepMind has launched Gemini Robotics 2, a new suite of AI models designed to give humanoid and other robots greater autonomy through whole-body control, advanced dexterity and multi-robot collaboration. The system is being demonstrated on Apptronikβ€˜s Apollo 2 humanoid robot, which Google DeepMind says can now perform full-body autonomous movements, including walking, crouching, bending […]

FedEx expands Dexterity physical AI deployment for autonomous trailer loading

31 July 2026 at 10:14
Global logistics company FedEx and warehouse automation specialist Dexterity have announced an expanded collaboration to scale Dexterity’s Foresight world model and Mech trailer loading systems at the FedEx Hagerstown Hub in Maryland. Built on multiple years of joint development, testing, and operational validation, the Hagerstown deployment expands the program beyond the pilot site previously used […]

Hellbender expands Pittsburgh operations to scale physical AI manufacturing

30 July 2026 at 15:20
Fast-growing startup moves headquarters to Hazelwood Green and opens expanded manufacturing operations at Mill 19, creating over 500 local jobs Hellbender, a physical AI infrastructure company powering intelligent systems at the edge, today announced it has moved its global headquarters to the Roundhouse at Hazelwood Green and will open expanded manufacturing operations at nearby Mill […]

Developing Healthcare Robotics with GPU-Native Medical Physics Simulation

28 July 2026 at 20:49
A surgeon using simulation on a computer to place a catheter.Unlike autonomous driving or industrial robotics, healthcare robotics can’t rely on internet-scale data collection or unlimited real-world experimentation....A surgeon using simulation on a computer to place a catheter.

Unlike autonomous driving or industrial robotics, healthcare robotics can’t rely on internet-scale data collection or unlimited real-world experimentation. Every demonstration requires specialized equipment, clinical expertise, and access to patients or laboratory environments. This creates three fundamental challenges for developers. First is the data gap. Training modern robotic policies…

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Integrate NVIDIA Omniverse RTX Sensor Simulation Into Existing Apps

20 July 2026 at 15:00
Developers building 3D, design, simulation, robotics, and industrial digital twin applications need ways to bring physical AI capabilities into the tools and...

Developers building 3D, design, simulation, robotics, and industrial digital twin applications need ways to bring physical AI capabilities into the tools and services they already use. Many of these workflows already depend on OpenUSD scenes, simulation-ready (SimReady) assets, Blender-based workflows, CAD pipelines, or domain-specific app stacks. The challenge is how to provide applications and…

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Post-Train NVIDIA Cosmos 3 in One Day Using Agent Skills

14 July 2026 at 16:00
What if autonomous coding AI agents could push your vision reasoning models above 90% accuracy with almost no manual effort? When adapting vision reasoning...

What if autonomous coding AI agents could push your vision reasoning models above 90% accuracy with almost no manual effort? When adapting vision reasoning models to production video tasks, developers often lose days to data formatting, container setup, training scripts, baseline evaluation, and hyperparameter sweeps before they even know whether post-training improves accuracy.

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Optimizing a Neural Reconstruction Pipeline Using NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools

30 June 2026 at 16:00
NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec is a neural reconstruction pipeline for building high-fidelity 3D representations of real-world environments from multisensor data such...

NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec is a neural reconstruction pipeline for building high-fidelity 3D representations of real-world environments from multisensor data such as cameras and lidar. It is used to reconstruct dynamic scenes captured by autonomous vehicle (AV) and robotics platforms into simulation-ready digital environments that can be rendered, replayed, and analyzed inside NVIDIA Omniverse and…

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Accelerating BEV Pooling on NVIDIA GPUs for Physical AI Applications

24 June 2026 at 16:30
An increasingly common design pattern for autonomous vehicles (AVs), robotics, and spatial AI systems is bird's-eye-view (BEV) perception. BEV models project...

An increasingly common design pattern for autonomous vehicles (AVs), robotics, and spatial AI systems is bird’s-eye-view (BEV) perception. BEV models project multicamera image features into a shared top-down grid, providing downstream perception and planning modules with a common spatial layout for reasoning about lanes, vehicles, pedestrians, and free space. A key operation in this pipeline…

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Inside NVIDIA Halos for Robotics: A Full-Stack Functional Safety System for Physical AI

Physical AIβ€”robots working autonomously alongside people in factories, warehouses, hospitals, and homesβ€”is arriving faster than most expected. Traditional...

Physical AIβ€”robots working autonomously alongside people in factories, warehouses, hospitals, and homesβ€”is arriving faster than most expected. Traditional safety which was built for structured environments can not work anymore as the spaces become more unstructured and robots move out of cages. AI-driven safety is the key. Marking a major milestone in the arrival of physical AI…

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How to Post-Train Autonomous Vehicle Models in Closed-Loop with NVIDIA Alpamayo

1 June 2026 at 04:49
Developing autonomous vehicle (AV) policies requires bridging an important gap between training and deployment. Vision-language-action (VLA) models that can...

Developing autonomous vehicle (AV) policies requires bridging an important gap between training and deployment. Vision-language-action (VLA) models that can reason over more complex driving scenes and produce richer intermediate reasoning are predominantly trained in open-loop, where model outputs are directly compared to ground-truth behaviors without considering their effect on the environment.

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Develop Physical AI Reasoning, World, and Action Models with NVIDIA Cosmos 3

1 June 2026 at 04:43
Physical AI systems must understand the real world before they can act within it. Robots, autonomous vehicles, and smart spaces need to understand what's...

Physical AI systems must understand the real world before they can act within it. Robots, autonomous vehicles, and smart spaces need to understand what’s happening in their world, predict what’s likely to happen next, and generate actions for specific environments, embodiments, and tasks. NVIDIA Cosmos 3 is a frontier foundation model for physical AI that combines physical reasoning…

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