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In 2012, Amazon acquired Kiva. One year later, it had around 1,000 robots. Today, that number exceeds 1 million. This kind of growth didn’t happen by simply adding more machines. Amazon reorganized its warehouses around automation. Robots handle movement, positioning, and flow of goods, shaping how the entire operation runs. Storage, picking, and logistics are coordinated as one integrated system, designed for speed and efficiency at scale. That’s where the real impact comes from. Automation delivers the most value when processes are structured with it in mind from the start, rather than added onto existing workflows. Amazon’s trajectory shows how operational design and technology evolve together over time. #Robotics #Automation #AI #Operations #SupplyChain Source 🙏 @JonErlichman @IanLJones98 @NevilleGaunt @bamitav @altiamkabir @sijlalhussain @marcusborba @jblefevre60 @Nicochan33 @TerenceLeungSF @KirkDBorne @CurieuxExplorer @enilev @Eli_Krumova @pascal_bornet @anand_narang @sulefati7 @Xbond49 @Hana_ElSayyed @engmlubbad @Timothy_Hughes @mcanducci @RLDI_Lamy @segundoatdell @engmlubbad @rvp @ipfcoline1 @PatGrant7777 @NigelTozer @Ronald_vanLoon @pierrepinna @Khulood_Almani @BetaMoroney @AKWY
Optimus+PV will be the first Von Neumann probe, a machine fully capable of replicating itself using raw materials found in space
“optically-coordinated swarming drones with simple neural nets, that simply target anything warm and moving.” - are you paying attention yet?
From humanoids interacting with attendees to DJ arms spinning tracks and quadrupeds navigating the venue, the physical AI era was on full display. #NVIDIAGTC #AI @nvidia @nvidianewsroom https://t.co/UJl5JB1woX
I hailed a Waymo self-driving car for a ride back to my hotel from the Golden Gate Bridge after a 14 mile hike left me footsore. It’s awe-inspiring to live in the future-present, riding inside of a robotic car that...
Just had a ride in the NVIDIA autonomous vehicle. I could argue that the Tesla is slightly smoother, but that is missing the point. The point I learned this week by hanging out with a bunch of different companies building autonomous...
Tesla self driving approved in Netherlands on April 10th After that every EU country can essentially "copy" the approval and instantly approve it in their country too So by end of 2026 it's likely we'll have Tesla Full Self Driving in most...
As we transition to the agentic enterprise. Stil work to be done to fully model the value of intelligence manufacturing plants (AI Factories). https://t.co/HbYZCQFhhC
Nvidia Robotics Chief: AI Agents Will Bring About ChatGPT Moment for Robotics In fact, a single agent could be responsible for coordinating a whole fleet of robots, dividing up a goal into specific tasks and assigning them to individual robots... https://t.co/hCz4HTp1t1
Good discussion on OWA drones and happy to contribute some thoughts to this piece. https://t.co/9wzT67vLWy
Tiny but Mighty: A Pocket-Sized Quadruped #Robot via @ZappyZappy7 #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/Lc8Ncpqx7B
The humanoid robotics race is already uneven. In 2025, Chinese companies accounted for nearly 90% of global shipments. Unitree and AgiBot alone delivered over 10,000 robots combined, while U.S. players like Tesla, Figure, and Agility Robotics each shipped only around 150 units. That gap tells a...
#Robotic Takeoff and Landing System to Transform Trucks into #Drone Mobile Bases via @ZappyZappy7 #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/j3oIWV4AOM
Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers | Fortune https://t.co/Lvw8vtIYdx
How Zipline Is Transforming Global Delivery with #Autonomous #Drones by @zipline #SupplyChain #Automation #Logistics https://t.co/9ugQN3qYXp
Amazon $AMZN has acquired autonomous robotics startup Rivr Rivr was valued at $110 million in an August 2024 funding round which included investment from Jeff Bezos and Amazon - The Information
Jensen says at the 42-minute mark, “we’re not the solutions provider" for autonomy. Obviously they won't make cars but what exactly is NVIDIA’s role beyond compute and training? Do Mercedes and others still need a separate AV partner?...
Back in Nov we developed Recap and trained π*-06 with RL. Now, we developed a fast *online* RL method that improves π-06 with as little as 15 min of robot data for precise tasks, using "RL tokens" exposed by our...
This is one reason I'm suspicious of most humanoid robotics companies today. I've seen lots of canned demos in perfect or near perfect conditions. Very very few in uncontrolled settings that were even the slightest bit impressive.
"Jeff Bezos is in early talks to raise $100 billion for a new fund that would buy up manufacturing companies and seek to use AI technology to accelerate their path to automation." https://t.co/UmA1I3g0xp
This week, 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇬🇧🇳🇴 maritime community came together in Seoul🇰🇷 for a timely & strategically important workshop on Maritime Autonomy Assurance. Brilliantly hosted by HD Hyundai & Korea Offshore & Shipbuilding Association (KOSHIPA). Was humbled by the invitation from HD Hyundai...
With 170M miles driven through Dec 2025, the data continues to validate our safety-first approach. Proud of our strong safety record and the real-world impact we’re making. Here’s what it looks like in practice. https://t.co/zPpDu7pDww
#WhosNext? Assembly line workers in a humanoid #Robot factory? Agility Robotics is looking to populate its entire factory with working examples of its own product. #Robotics #Manufacturing #Automation https://t.co/ZYEwn9dOQf
50k more autonomous cars on the roadmap in less than one decade. Autonomy will not take decades to scale. It’s happening now.
Tesla's FSD: 5.3 million miles between accidents. US driving average: 660,000. That's 9x safer. And it's only getting better.
From Walking to Heavy Lifting: Atlas Shows Off Next-Level Skills by @lukas_m_ziegler #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #MI #ML #Tech https://t.co/4uksEsmm3c
Tesla FSD is nothing short of magic. Just rented a Cybertruck, picked it up at the airport and it drove us directly to the Airbnb. None of the stress of a new city, new roads, new car. Had it for...
It’s genuinely astonishing: Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 began along the lines of late-Soviet large-scale land warfare: with armored thrusts and insane massive artillery barrages. Then the war became the stage for a drone revolution that reshaped combat everywhere --...
Theory: We don't let LLMs control robots and operate freely in the physical world (yet?) because they'd fall all the time, break everything, and cause massive damage. But in software the falling and the massive damage are invisible, so it's fine. https://t.co/HMltzq20lp
Loving the Booster K1 robot 🤖 It moves + balances very well and is super rugged (it’s survived the bushes already). Also has a fully open API to train and upload your own policies - all at << 1/4 cost...
AI agents are getting expense cards. Ramp and Stripe are both building infrastructure that lets autonomous agents buy, spend, and transact end-to-end without a human in the loop. The ceiling on what agents can do has always been money. That...
On Yokohama🇯🇵 streets... The behaviour that most impressed me about @Nissan's selfdriving tech is 👇🏽 https://t.co/tGMsVqllhO
OC-SORT: Improving Object Tracking by Fixing Motion, Not Just Detection In this episode of Artificial Intelligence: Papers and Concepts, we explore OC-SORT (Observation-Centric SORT), an evolution of traditional tracking algorithms that improves how AI systems follow objects in dynamic environments. While...
"The headline “launch” by $UBER and $NVDA may simply mean a safety driver behind the wheel of a Level 2 car in the first half of next year."
📍@NissanMotor Global HQ, Yokohama🇯🇵 Privileged to have had an exclusive demonstration of @Nissan's in-house #selfdriving vehicle technology & their mobility service in Yokohama. Got the full experience of booking through Nissan's Easy Ride App, Pick-Up and Drop-Off (PUDO), including a visit to...
No doubt @tonyzzhao knows what’s up. Diversity and scale of data is becoming key in training robotics models. And not all data is made equal.
Exciting to see how far the industry has come since we gave our first end-to-end AI driving demo a decade ago. But what matters now is scaled deployment. Every day this week we are releasing a new hour long video of...
How can robots acquire skills through interactions with the physical world? An interview with Jiaheng Hu by @aihuborg and Lucy Smith https://t.co/HF0EtUnsaR
“In the spring of 2025, renting a humanoid robot for a corporate event in China cost…10,000 [to] 20,000 yuan per day. By March 2026, JDcom’s rental storefront lists a Unitree humanoid, with on-site engineer included, starting at 1,796 yuan.” @poezhao0605 https://t.co/yotqwvFfWf
Lucid Motors shows off robotaxi concept called ‘Lunar’ by Sean O'Kane @TechCrunch Learn more: https://t.co/Ebg95EvEWR #EV #Automotive #Transport #Technology #Innovation https://t.co/6Y4goAcpB3
The era of Physical AI requires us to solve the hardest problems in unpredictable conditions in real time. @KodiakRobotics is doubling down on its ability to do exactly that. We announced a collaboration with @nvidia today in which our next-generation driverless...
My first @Waymo robotaxi sighting in London through a London taxi's lens... I asked the Black-cab driver his thoughts & without hesitation he said, "I'm not sure they can handle London". While #selfdriving tech is getting mature, we need to do more...
Physical AI gets its time in the keynote (as expected). I believe physical AI is going to be a meaningful growth driver for Nvidia starting in CY28. Today, only about 1% of Nvidia’s sales are used to deliver physical AI, which...
The gap between SOTA robots and the many factories and warehouses that don’t use them is being closed by @goformic Making automating as easy as hiring workers: that’s the trillion-dollar opportunity.
Tech proohet for many, Travis Kalanick, is working on ‘wheels for robots’ vs yet another humanoid with feet. Says something about the practicality and utility/ROI of one over the other.
People still underestimate how many drones are being built, shipped, used, and getting blown up around the world. Autonomous wars are upon us.
Autonomous AI robots. 🤖 What could possibly go wrong? ⚽️ 🎥 @bamitav @ErenChenAI #Robotics #AIGovernance https://t.co/Xv7DnRlS3g
Just dropped a new #AutonomyMarkets episode. Watch or listen on your favorite podcast player. We Rode in a Tesla Unsupervised Robotaxi and Walked the Cybercab Line $TSLA, $GOOGL, $UBER, $AMZN, $KDK https://t.co/ks2RE2wR0r
Fast charging electric buses in a few minutes is the future of autonomous transformation, including robotaxis. 🔋🚕 https://t.co/dAG4ua58op
TBH, the fact that Waymos pass school buses 2x as often as human drivers really surprised me given how much better/safer they are for every other important category. Seems like something @Waymo should fix ASAP.
