Robotics · Thu 5 Nov

AIAI-generated summary NVIDIA researchers report that their new visual planning method, VFlash, accelerates robot trajectory decoding by up to 12 times. The researchers state that VFlash reduces 3D trajectory prediction errors by as much as 61% in specific tests.

AIAI-generated summary At an October event in San Diego, Qualcomm shared its industrial and edge AI strategy centered on the Dragonwing platform and an open development model. Enterprise customers including Zebra, Cognex, and Axon detailed production-level edge AI systems currently deployed across various industries.

AIAI-generated summary AGIBOT introduced Worken on Oct. 29 as a new metric to measure effective intelligent work hours for humanoid robots. Agility Robotics and Figure AI publish operating data such as totes moved and factory shifts worked, but the figures cannot be compared with one another or turned into a return.

AIAI-generated summary MIT researchers have created a memory system called UQ-DAAAM to help robots identify and correct incorrect descriptions of objects stored in their memory. The system compares multiple descriptions of the same object seen from different viewpoints to quantify uncertainty and update captions in real time.

AIAI-generated summary People in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and other cities have attacked food delivery robots by kicking them and knocking them over. In Philadelphia, police arrested 78-year-old retired University of Pennsylvania professor Carolyn Marvin after she blocked an Uber Eats delivery robot.

AIAI-generated summary The Walt Disney Company hosted its 2026 Disney Accelerator Demo Day on November 3 to showcase collaborations with five startups including FieldAI and Physical Intelligence. FieldAI demonstrated autonomous robot systems assisting with parking operations and exploring future character-based robotic experiences alongside Walt Disney Imagineering R&D.

AIAI-generated summary A startup called Dimensional is paying people in San Francisco twenty dollars an hour to walk four-legged robot dogs to gather training data. Meanwhile, ICE planned to spend up to two million dollars on robot dogs made by the company Boston Dynamics.

AIAI-generated summary Xiaomi released footage showing its humanoid robots working an eight-hour shift sorting center console side covers at its EV factory. Xiaomi says the robots operated independently and corrected anomalies, though the company did not provide specific sorting success rate numbers for the shift.

AIAI-generated summary A robotics startup in San Francisco named Dimensional is offering twenty dollars an hour to people who walk robot dogs through city streets. Dimensional founder Stash Pomichter says the collected data will help improve how the machines perform in real-world conditions.

AIAI-generated summary Humble Robotics announced that it has raised $51 million to build electric self-driving trucks without drivers' cabs. Founder and CEO Eyal Cohen says that customer pilots will start in the first quarter of 2027.

AIAI-generated summary @cerebras launched an episode of Big Chip Club featuring @MilksandMatcha talking with @cdngdev, the former @OpenAI robotics intern. The discussion covers topics including the creative process behind building products, why robotics needs fast inference, and recursive self-improvement.

AIAI-generated summary According to the Financial Times, Chinese regulators have reportedly told SoftBank Group they will not allow its $5.4 billion acquisition of ABB robotics division. This regulatory decision creates uncertainty for SoftBank Group and leaves the robotics unit on the books of ABB.