Top stories in robotics today: – Meta's ‘world model’ for robotics – Skild hits $4.5B with tech giants' backing – Gecko Robotics tops $1.25B for inspection bots – China’s RoboBrain 2.0 for smarter robots
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Meta’s World Model and Robotics Funding Boom Today
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Segway Waiters: Impressive Efficiency Meets Real-World Risk
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La habilidad de estos camareros con el Segway es impresionante. Sin duda el servicio será rapidísimo, pero cualquier pequeño error puede provocar un pequeño desastre.
— Juan Merodio (@juanmerodio) 16 juin 2025
Crees qué compensa? pic.twitter.com/Tdd3DbAMyCLa habilidad de estos camareros con el Segway es impresionante. Sin duda el servicio será rapidísimo, pero cualquier pequeño error puede provocar un pequeño desastre. Crees qué compensa?
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Beijing Academy Releases RoboBrain 2.0 Open-Source Robot AI
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The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence dropped RoboBrain 2.0, an open-source AI for humanoids/robots
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 16 juin 2025
It ingests multi-image and long videos as inputs and delivers capabilities like spatial perception, temporal perception, and scene reasoningpic.twitter.com/kHNpaJm4YHThe Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence dropped RoboBrain 2.0, an open-source AI for humanoids/robots It ingests multi-image and long videos as inputs and delivers capabilities like spatial perception, temporal perception, and scene reasoning
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Ames Research Center: AI and Robotics R&D Infrastructure Opportunity
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Perfect example. Stayed by those google bay view domes — ames research center right next door and TBH minus the occasional cool f-35 flyby, it’s tons of aging infrastructure and empty space. Future of AI and robotics on one side, empty buildings on the other. Ready made R&D zone
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Join Le Robot HF Hackathon Local Edition
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Are you guys going to your local edition of @LeRobotHF hackathon?
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VivaTech 2025: Five AI Trends and Startups to Watch
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𝐕𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 : 𝟓 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐭 𝟓 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭-𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐯𝐫𝐞 180 000 visiteurs. La 9e édition de #VivaTech se termine sur un record. #Robotique, #cybersécurité, #quantique : l’IA a pris le pouvoir à Paris. Mais quid de l'effet Whaou des années
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LeRobotHF Hackathon This Weekend Local Edition
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On this topic, you should check out the local edition of @LeRobotHF hackathon this weekend if you can
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Trump Military Parade Showcases Tanks Robot Dogs Future
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Tanks, trops, and Robot Dogs: Trump's parade showcase military future https://
search.app/DcpSx #robotdog #Robot #military @PawlowskiMario @chidambara09 @Ym78200 @CurieuxExplorer @efipm @fogle_shane @bigfundu @sayedflah @MINDOS_AI @Ronald_vanLoon @cyngn @belindabeibi -
Interviewing Sophia World’s First Humanoid Robot
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Interviewing Sophia, World's First Humanoid Robot! https://
search.app/g4wjB #sophiarobot #sophia #robot #ai #Tech #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #robotics @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 -
Local Robotics Hackathon Showcases Future of AI
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Even if you can’t build robots yourself or can’t stay the whole weekend, I would highly highly recommend checking out your local edition of @LeRobotHF hackathon today or tomorrow to check out the robots and the awesome people training them. The future of AI robotics is being