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Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View ↗

Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare…

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Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics raises another $400M ↗

Mind Robotics, which was first revealed in late 2025, has now raised more than $1 billion to date.

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Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data ↗

Instead of building robots themselves, the team is focused on a simpler goal — providing data that robots need to learn and operate.

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Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows ↗

Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, but also a demo showcasing a set of robotic hands performing complex tasks.

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Colby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100M to train its models for war: We visited its bootcamp ↗

We visited Scout AI's training ground where it's working on AI agents that can help individual soldiers control fleets of autonomous vehicles.

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SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 has four tightly defined technology domains, each backed by live demonstrations, dedicated exhibit floors, and sessions featuring the people actually building and funding these technologies…

Apple under Ternus: what comes next for the tech giant’s hardware strategy ↗

John Ternus, Apple's incoming CEO, is a hardware guy, signaling Apple may be putting devices back at the center of its strategy.

Robots beat human records at Beijing half-marathon ↗

The winning time is a massive improvement over last year’s race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 minutes.

Chef Robotics escaped the robot cooking graveyard and says it’s thriving — here’s why ↗

The company, which deploys AI-guided robot arms for food production, says it is looking to expand its services to provide for a broader array of customers.

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught ↗

The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.