Robotics · Tue 10 Nov

AIAI-generated summary NVIDIA discusses how artificial intelligence and robotics are being used by innovators to improve waste sorting and resource recovery. Josh Parker, head of sustainability at NVIDIA, says artificial intelligence can help understand waste streams and automate the sorting work.

AIAI-generated summary China is showcasing artificial intelligence models and dancing robots at the Web Summit in Lisbon starting Tuesday. The event features speakers from Chinese labs and startups while Beijing faces spying claims involving the chip maker Nvidia.

AIAI-generated summary Infrastructure builder MasTec will deploy Gritt artificial intelligence robotic attachments on utility-scale solar projects across several US states. The deployment follows testing on live sites where the robotic systems helped install megawatts of panels.

AIAI-generated summary Dynamic Creatures said it partnered with Sixth Wall Studio to integrate character authoring with interactive robots for entertainment venues. Dynamic Creatures stated that the collaboration will combine its mobile robots and SnowJay platform with the CharacterOS platform.

AIAI-generated summary AutoDNA is a self-driving molecular biology laboratory built from the ground up for artificial intelligence by a team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. The system uses artificial intelligence agents to operate robotic arms and lab equipment, while humans occasionally step in to empty trash and replenish supplies.

AIAI-generated summary Mosaic Intelligence Labs announced on November 10, 2026 that it emerged from stealth with $47 million in seed funding to develop sensing-enabled spatial intelligence and robotic systems for surgery. Backed by investors including 8VC, Fundomo, Lingotto Innovation and Obvious Ventures, the San Francisco company initially plans to focus on procedures performed through the vascular system.

AIAI-generated summary The platform has introduced Memories Upload as a capture network that converts first-person video of everyday work into training data for robots. The company states that the network adds new footage every month to provide robotics labs with a growing supply of real-world data.

AIAI-generated summary Intel Corp. and Altera Corp. announced that they are jointly developing flexible, real-time, sensor-bridge reference systems for edge and physical AI applications including robotics. The companies state that their collaboration combines Intel compute, connectivity, and software with Altera field-programmable gate arrays or FPGAs to help manufacturers simplify sensor integration.

AIAI-generated summary Ant Group embodied AI company Robbyant has open-sourced LingBot-Touch, a tactile foundation model designed to give robots advanced touch perception using a dataset of nearly 5,000 hours of real-world tactile data. Robbyant says the model supports magnetic tactile, visual tactile, and piezoresistive sensing, which could improve fine manipulation tasks such as turning pages, unscrewing bottle caps, and identifying Mahjong tiles.

AIAI-generated summary San Francisco start-up Hedra launched a service called Hedra Model Factory to build custom artificial intelligence models for physical uses including robotics and manufacturing. The company says the offering helps customers fine-tune models, rent computing power, and run models alongside artificial intelligence agents that autonomously run experiments.

AIAI-generated summary Google DeepMind reports that Gemini 4 Argon robotics research capabilities acted as a simulation engine to accelerate the development of Gemini Robotics 2.5. Google DeepMind says Argon generates simulated practice runs from camera scenes and builds digital twins to help robots generalize to new objects.

AIAI-generated summary Researchers at the University of California San Diego developed EgoThumb, a wearable robotic thumb controlled by an artificial intelligence algorithm trained to plan movements using camera images. In laboratory experiments, the system helped wearers complete tasks such as unscrewing a bottle cap using only one hand.

AIAI-generated summary Path Robotics announced on November 10, 2026 that it raised $300 million in Series E financing at a $2.45 billion post-money valuation to expand manufacturing artificial intelligence. Chief executive and co-founder Andy Lonsberry says Path will scale its welding business while investing further in data, compute, and model development for tasks before and after welding.

AIAI-generated summary Memories.ai is paying gig workers to supply first-person video data to help train robots to perform everyday human tasks. The startup uses Nvidia technology to process and label the video footage for robotics developers and artificial intelligence labs.

AIAI-generated summary LEA Ventures operates independently to back founders advancing Physical AI, sovereign infrastructure, and the transformation of established industries across Europe. Managing Partner Nils Seele says Southwest Germany has a high concentration of industrial DNA yet produces too few globally scaled tech companies.

AIAI-generated summary Figure AI is hiring a night-shift coordinator in Santa Clara to oversee its humanoid robots alongside human operators. The robotics startup lists the hourly pay between forty dollars and forty-five dollars for the contract-to-hire position.

AIAI-generated summary MIT and New York University researchers built FLEX, a system that uses OpenAI model GPT-4o to turn typed corrections into broader robot avoidance rules. The accompanying paper shows language-model operations erred in up to 8.6 percent of tests, and the system makes no safety guarantees.

AIAI-generated summary Urban logistics company PORT is developing an AI Driver and autonomous delivery vehicles using data collected from its existing e-bike fleet. The company has raised fourteen point five million euros in funding led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Balnord.

AIAI-generated summary ListEasier Inc. announced the deployment of its physical artificial intelligence manufacturing robotics operations to automate product listings. Josh van der Meulen says the initiative targets a forty five billion dollar market by bridging physical handling with digital catalog creation.