Sam Altman confirms an OpenAI humanoid robot is coming, with a demo due in 2027. The real hurdle is building the robot's brain.
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OpenAI faces a $6.5B dilemma. Discover why Sam Altman may spin off robotics and hardware to protect OpenAI’s core profits ahead of its high-stakes IPO.
Jeff Bezos is raising $100 billion to acquire and AI-automate heavy industries like aerospace and defense. Discover the secrets of his "Project Prometheus."
OpenAI's robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski resigns in a "crisis of governance" over the Pentagon deal. Discover the "red lines" shaking the AI industry in 2026.
At CES 2026, Arm redefined the future with Physical AI and AI-Defined Platforms, powering Tesla's 40x faster AI5 chip and next-gen humanoid robots.
Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind are bringing Gemini AI to the new Atlas robot. Hyundai plans to deploy these "intelligent" humanoids by 2028.
At CES 2026, NVIDIA launched the Jetson T4000 and Cosmos Reason 2, bringing 1,200 TFLOPS of Physical AI power to robots that can finally "reason."
MIT and NVIDIA unveil FoundationMotion, an automated system that enables AI to master complex video motion, outperforming Gemini in autonomous driving scenes.
NVIDIA patches critical 9.8 severity flaws in Isaac Launchable (CVE-2025-33222) that allow RCE via hard-coded credentials. Upgrade to v1.1 now!
NVIDIA patches two high-severity code injection flaws (CVE-2025-33183/4) in Isaac-GROOT, risking code execution & privilege escalation in robotics.
Amazon introduced Blue Jay, a multi-arm robot for packing, and Project Eluna, an AI assistant for managers, promising safer, faster operations.
MIT & Toyota unveiled Steerable Scene Generation, an AI tool that uses Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to autonomously create 44M+ realistic 3D virtual scenes for training robots.
Elon Musk says Tesla's Optimus robot could make up 80% of the company's value, but the path to mass production faces major technical and manufacturing challenges.
Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth reveals a new strategy to create a licensable robotics software platform—a move akin to Google's Android—to power humanoid AI.
Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot production is far behind its 2025 target, with only hundreds built. Bottlenecks in hand and forearm development are major challenges.
Nvidia released patches for critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-23270, CVE-2025-23269) in Jetson Linux and IGX, allowing RCE, data tampering, and info disclosure.