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NVIDIA’s Jetson Kiosk Demo: A Coding Agent Puts a Vision Model on the Device
An NVIDIA tutorial shows OpenAI's Codex coding agent turning a Jetson Orin Nano into a self-starting kiosk that captions a live webcam feed with Google's small Gemma 4 E2B model, running on the device. What the demo shows, what "No Mac required" means, and why local inference matters.
Industrial Robots This Week: An Ex-Optimus Startup, AWS’s Robot Toolchain and Who Leads the Warehouse
A former Tesla Optimus AI lead is reportedly building non-humanoid factory robots. AWS has published open sample code for training robot software in the cloud. Locus keeps its top AMR ranking in the Americas, and ZS Robotics brings a low-profile pallet shuttle to the US. What is confirmed, what is reported and what is company-claimed.
Mecka AI and Parallel Systems: Paying for Robot Data and Autonomous Rail
Mecka AI raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia to pay people to record everyday tasks as robot training data. Parallel Systems closed a $100M Series C for battery-electric autonomous freight rail. What each company confirmed, what is company claim, and what is still missing.
Boston Dynamics Names Rohit Prasad CEO as Atlas Heads for the Factory
Boston Dynamics has appointed former Amazon Alexa and AGI chief Rohit Prasad as CEO, effective 7 October 2026. What the company confirmed, what Hyundai's 2028 Atlas factory target means, and what is still unknown.
Musk Says Tesla and SpaceX Will Build and Run Terafab, With TSMC Limited to a Sublease
Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX will build and run the Terafab AI chip complex in Texas, with TSMC at most subleasing part of it. Intel's CEO says Intel remains involved. What was said, what Terafab is, and the open questions.
Sereact at Zalando: dual-arm returns robots go live in Germany and Poland
A GlobeNewswire release says CEVA Logistics has put Sereact’s Cortex dual-arm robots into live Zalando fashion-returns handling at Greven, Germany, and Świebodzin, Poland, under a Robotics-as-a-Service model after Zalando’s July 2026 Series B investment.
Multiply Labs’ $75M Series B: robots between AI discovery and patient doses
Multiply Labs’ company release says it raised $75 million in Series B funding led by Patrick Soon-Shiong’s NantWorks to scale robotic GMP manufacturing clusters for biologics, bringing total capital raised to over $100 million.
Minerva’s ~$10M pre-seed: humanoids for jobs people should not walk into
Minerva Humanoids’ company release says it raised about $10 million in pre-seed funding led by General Catalyst to build Roger, a semi-autonomous VR-teleoperated humanoid aimed at hazardous energy and public-safety work, with paid pilots launching in the fall.
Lotte’s Korea humanoid logistics bet: six processes, five years
Chosun Biz reports Lotte Global Logistics was selected for a KEIT/MOTIE robot industry technology project lasting about five years to March 2031, piloting domestic physical-AI humanoids across six logistics processes at major Korean centres.
Kawasaki’s Kaleido: Noetra physical AI on a long autonomy roadmap
A RobotToday industry briefing, reprinting Interesting Engineering, says Kawasaki Heavy Industries plans to put Noetra’s physical AI on its Kaleido humanoid—first planned adopter—with remote-plus-AI assist now and fuller autonomy targeted around 2040.
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