Tesla Leads the Way in Consumer Autonomy
“We view [Tesla] as the current leader in consumer autonomy,” BofA equity analyst Alexander Perry 🤔
Unmanned Ships Signal New Defense Inflection Point
Truist note re Iranian conflict and autonomous sea power: @TheTerminal “We believe the impending shift toward unmanned maritime systems in the Persian Gulf represents the next major inflection point for defense technology, mirroring the rapid ‘Ukraine-style’ adoption cycle."
Electric Autonomous Grocery Vans Bring Shopping Home
#Autonomous Mobile Electric Grocery Store Delivers Right to Your Doorstep via @ZappyZappy7 #RetailTech #ML #EmergingTech #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/A2y3Z15Mrd
Neural Network Predicts Future Frames From User Motion
Check out this cool robotics "world model" demo: https://www.yixuanwang.me/interactive_world_sim/#interactive-demo Rather than a traditional simulation, this neural network predicts future video frames based on user movement.
Global Alliance Advances Safe Automated Driving for All
Bringing 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇯🇵🇩🇪🇳🇱🇪🇺 together on a common mission of deploying safe automated driving & bringing safe moblity to all in society... Thank you to Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) for organising the SAKURA project final event & convening the global forum...🙏🏽 #traveldiaries🇯🇵...
Anduril Prioritizes Battle OS Over Platforms in Combat Race
"The thing that really matters is the autonomy behaviours that should be sovereign, because we can swap out vehicles.” How Anduril is building the battle OS first, platforms second as West races to rebuild combat mass #avgeek https://t.co/69i5ruKVXK https://t.co/nJuPlxPPGf
MicroVision Targets Sub‑$200 LIDAR for Mass‑market Cars
LIDAR is expensive to add to most cars. That’s why until now, it’s only been used for high-end autonomous vehicles. But MicroVision wants to lower LIDAR prices, designing a sensor that costs under US $200 to produce. https://spectrum.ieee.org/solid-state-lidar-microvision-adas
Easily Compare Top Robotics Reward Functions on Your Videos
for robotics researchers: there's many fantastic reward functions out there (TOPReward, Robometer, GVL, etc), so I made a lil website so you easily evaluate them on your own videos. Try: https://philfung.github.io/rewardscope/
Robotic Modules Bloom to Shade Rooms Based on Light
Scientists have developed rearrangeable robotic modules that can “bloom” like flowers to shade a sunlit room by sensing light levels and adapting collectively. Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/0zas9GijHE https://t.co/el9OOHyFMB
From Zero to $1B in 3.5 Years: Lux‑Backed Success
From ZERO to $1B in 3.5 years. We wrote their first check at Lux… Here’s how they did it.
World Models: From Craik’s 1943 Insight to Autonomous Driving
In 1943, Cambridge psychologist Kenneth Craik proposed a powerful idea: intelligent systems carry a “small-scale model” of the world inside their heads, allowing them to simulate actions and anticipate outcomes before acting. Today, we call these world models. Kant described abstract mental...
Software Streamlines Manufacturing for Defense, Space, Energy, Automotive
Software that helps hardware companies in the defense, space, energy and automotive industries streamline their manufacturing processes. Nominal's @CameronLMcCord and FF's @traestephens join us on the show today.
Robot Learns by Real‑world Play, Not Simulation
Super awesome - instead of learning in sim, the robot *learns in real life*, moving objects like a toddler for 26+ hours. I feel for the poor Cal grad student who had to babysit this 😔 https://tether-research.github.io
MIT Breakthrough Lets Rescue Robots Map Environments Instantly
This is where #AI + #IoT + #robotics become mission-critical. Robots that understand their environment don’t just move faster, they save lives. MIT just unveiled a breakthrough that lets search-and-rescue robots rapidly map large, unpredictable spaces in real time. @MITAeroAstro @MITEngineering #CES2026 🔗...
Celebrating 11 Years of SegNet with SoftBank Support
11 years since I knocked on your door @vijaycivs and we built SegNet 🚀 Thanks to @SoftBank_Group who tell the full story here.
Requesting Human Driver Intersection Metrics for Comparison
Now calculate this across human drivers during same period. Would also love to see metrics for human drivers going through intersections. Perhaps @GetNexar wants to share insights…
Multi-Scale Embodied
We made a memory system for our models at PI. We call it Multi-Scale Embodied Memory (MEM). It provides both short-term and long-term memory to enable very long tasks. We tested it on cleaning a kitchen (and yes, washing dishes),...
Isaac ROS 4.2 Launches with DGX Spark, Jetson Support
Our colleagues at @NVIDIARobotics have released Isaac ROS 4.2 which adds: 🤖NVIDIA DGX Spark hardware support 🤖JetPack 7.1 and Jetson T4000 support 🤖Improved visual mapping localization workflows 🤖FoundationStereo v. 2 🤖A new sim-to-real tutorial w/ a @Universal_Robot ⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/adIHQ2UADv
Waymo Driver Excels in Snow, Focusing on Rider Experience
As the Waymo Driver demonstrates strong performance in freezing conditions this winter, we’re moving beyond core technical validation. Driving in multiple snowy cities, we are now refining the rider experience and logistics required for consistent service in snow. https://t.co/5mpmsNszpB
Optics Become AI Datacenter's New Bottleneck and Gold
- Scale out bottleneck is real - Co-packaged optics to be a “must” - NVDA pouring $$ into Lumentum/Coherent to lock down supply - Yet optical supply chain is still constrained and lumpy Photons are having their biggest moment since long-haul comms:
Iran Deploys First Successful Kamikaze Drone Boat Attack
Iranian Kamikaze Drone Boat Makes First Successful Strike Of War Iran, a pioneer in lower-end uncrewed surface vessel technology, used at least one to attack the oil tanker MKD VYOM in the Gulf of Oman. https://t.co/YGpQWjAl2y
RoboCup 2026 Launches Unified Smart Manufacturing League
RoboCup 2026 introduces the Smart Manufacturing League (SML): a new unified league combining logistics, mobile manipulation, and intelligent industrial automation. 📝 TDP and a performance video ⏳ Deadline: March 20, 2026 🔗 https://t.co/oSq94PUdVO #RoboCup2026 #SML #Robotics https://t.co/pYWpgRMSpf
AgentOps: Full Stack Needed to Scale AI Agents
AgentOps = MLOps for autonomous AI. 🧠⚙️ To scale agents in production you need the full stack: 🗺️ planning 🧠 memory/context 🤖 execution (tools/APIs/code) 📈 monitoring 🔁 optimization 🛡️ governance 🏗️ infrastructure Agents don’t scale without operations. #AgentOps #AIAgents #AgenticAI #LLMs #Automation
Taming Agentic Chaos: The Biggest Tech Challenge
How to make tools like @openclaw behave is the biggest challenge (and opportunity) in tech right now. @lilyhnewman reports on an important new effort to tame agentic chaos: https://t.co/mKSiWh8Kr7
Can Robot Chefs Earn Four‑Star Ratings?
"Would you give four stars to a restaurant entirely staffed by robots?" In a new Science #Robotics Focus article, @robinrmurphy discusses the sci-fi novel Automatic Noodle and ponders over the challenges in robots cooking and perceiving flavors. https://t.co/iPTbwCL6fB
Encord Secures $60M Series C to Power Physical AI
Congrats to @encord_team on their $60M Series C! Encord is building the AI-native data layer powering physical AI, helping 300+ teams manage and align massive volumes of multimodal data as robots and autonomous systems move into real-world deployment. https://t.co/qfx0F6vHQh
Einride Secures $113M PIPE Ahead of IPO Debut
NEW: Self-driving truck startup Einride raises $113M PIPE ahead of public debut The fun thing about having covered so much of the tech landscape is jumping in on story coverage outside your beat for your colleagues when they're OOO https://t.co/YpkUAlfdhU via...
World Models Enable AI to Simulate Reality for Safer Autonomy
World Models Explained - The Next Leap In AI Understanding 🧠 Most AI reacts to inputs, like a very talented autocomplete. A world model is different, it builds an internal simulation of reality so it can predict what happens next....
Bringing OpenClaw to Life with Terminator Vibes
I'm giving @openclaw a physical presence (is this how Skynet really begins?) cue terminator music etc... (cc @steipete) https://t.co/IuMaw4HEJ0
Tesla's Minor Update Signals Imminent Autonomous Driving
AI is speeding up. My eight year old Tesla, which I am being driven in now, just got a big update that they say in notes is a “minor” update. At this pace we will have self driving with no attention needed...
Uber Aggregates Robotaxis, Offering a Leveraged AV Bet
Uber isn’t building robotaxis. It’s aggregating them. That changes everything. $UBRL may be a leveraged bet on the entire AV ecosystem. Read why: https://t.co/uYTNGDwJMe @willrhind @graniteshares
Alfred Lin Joins Rowspace CEO After Sequoia‑Led $50M Funding
Alfred Lin is coming on the show today with Rowspace CEO Michael Manapat. Sequoia led Rowspace's $50M debut round. https://t.co/SkBI6J8BJB @Alfred_Lin @mlmanapat
Legacy Friction: Modern AI Meets Outdated Iron Infrastructure
The Legacy Friction: Integrating Intelligence into Iron - the structural, technical, and cultural resistance that occurs when you try to integrate 21st-century autonomous intelligence into 20th-century physical iron. https://t.co/6dgJ5aZe4w
Wayve Raises $1.5B, Pivots to Universal AI Licensing
Another major milestone in @wayve_ai's history. Proud to say we’ve secured $1.5 billion Series D investment at $8.6 billion valuation. We started a decade ago with a contrarian technical thesis: that self-driving is an AI problem, and Embodied AI will enable...
Deterministic ROS Executor with Zero‑Copy IPC Released
Looking for a fully deterministic #ROS executor and true zero copy message passing / IPC to boost your system performance? Our colleagues at @AutowareFdn have rolled out Agnocast and Callback Isolated Executor (CIE) as drop-in replacements to RCLCpp / and...
Wayve Hires VPs, Stresses Platform over Models
Big appointments for Wayve: Welcome Girish Venkataramani (VP AI Platform) and Brandon Basso (VP AI Simulation, Data, Eval & Validation). Scaling embodied AI isn’t just about better models. It’s about platform, data and evaluation that earns trust.
Why Connecting AI Everywhere Fails, Embrace Autonomous Agents
Built an MCP server recently? Did developers actually use it, or is it collecting dust? 😵 I'll be speaking at @theleaddev London (June 1-2) about why "connecting AI to everything" doesn't work and what actually does when building tools that...
Pursuing Universal Embodied AI for Global Vehicle Autonomy
Here's the recording from my lecture where I posed the question I started working on a decade ago at @Cambridge_Uni: "how to build Embodied AI that can drive any vehicle, anywhere in the world." https://t.co/kYuUhiCs0n
MIT Breakthrough Lets Rescue Robots Map Spaces Instantly
This is where AI + IoT + #robotics become mission-critical. Robots that understand their environment don’t just move faster, they save lives. MIT just unveiled a breakthrough that lets search-and-rescue robots rapidly map large, unpredictable spaces in real time. @MITAeroAstro @MITEngineering #MWC26...
Autonomous Trucks Won’t Go Mainstream Until 2035‑40
The folks that believe autonomous trucks will suddenly just show up are the same people that believe that the Tesla Semi is going to be ubiquitous choice among fleets. The way consumers buy cars, is not the way that fleets...
Automation Won’t Replace Truck Drivers Anytime Soon
This isn’t true. While there will be a lot of automation, we won’t see the elimination of truck drivers in 4 years. Perhaps we will see some local deliveries using robotics, but we are a long way off from point...
Zero‑Human Companies Are Already Being Built
I'm watching Anthropic and OpenAI and others ship agents that can operate businesses Meanwhile, DAOs are figuring out governance without humans in the loop And crypto rails are enabling 24/7 automated settlement The pieces are connecting Zero-human companies aren't science fiction They're under construction right...
Robots Achieve Zero Downtime Through Autonomous Swapping
Running 24/7 without any human babysitters has been really hard We want robots operating at all times - even at 2am, on weekends, or on Christmas Day The robots run until their battery is low. When one heads to dock for recharging,...
Self‑Driving Cars Set to Aid Millions of Seniors
The future of autonomous driving will benefit tens of millions of U.S. aging adults https://t.co/ZJvNFviErg
Smartness Means Anticipating the Future, Says Nvidia CEO
Nvidia CEO defines what it means to be smart and importance of seeing around corners https://t.co/isVrlJtjUp
EV Batteries Improve as Auto Tech Deals Surge
EV batteries are lasting longer, & some are safer; Qualcomm-Tata alliance; SDV deal; Ford’s UEV; auto chip deal; return of diesel and V8; Uber charger incentives; CAN attacks; radar for low power; please shut your Waymo door... https://t.co/fOi9eLKBwv #automotive #SDVs #EVs #AVs
Self‑Driving Cars Restore Mobility to Millions with Disabilities
The positive externalities that @waymo and autonomous vehicle provide: • 15M adults over age 80 in U.S. • 7M people with low vision/vision loss • 3M people with active epilepsy • 1M with loss of driving privileges Tens of million regain agency. https://t.co/defb5IWGPR
Real‑World Data Powers Autonomous Vehicles, Says Nexar CEO
Nexar CEO Zach Greenberger joins Alex, Kirsten and Ed to explain why AVs need real world data, how Nexar built one of the world’s largest driving datasets, the Uber Labs announcement, and much, much more. Also, the hosts critique each other’s...
Humanoid Robot Performs Real-Time Parkour via Perception
Not a preplanned motion sequence. A robot deciding mid-jump what to do next. [📍 paper + demo] Researchers just showed a humanoid doing real parkour using only onboard perception. No motion script, no fixed obstacle layout. The system is called...
From Software to Robots: Making Automation Affordable and Deployable
🎙️ Evan Beard is the co-founder and CEO of Standard Bots , building AI-trained industrial robot arms designed to automate real factory work, not demos: In this episode, Evan shares a founder path that started in software startups and Y...