13 results for “manipulation”
Foundation, a U.S.-based robotics company, has demonstrated a tendon-driven robotic hand capable of catching a baseball mid-air. Dexterous manipulation remains the primary barrier to useful general-purpose robots in unstructured.
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, a 180 cm humanoid for cage-free warehouse and factory work with a 23 kg payload. It targets a 20-hour daily duty cycle so operators can replace fixed safety cages.
Apple released REVERSAL-BENCH, a research-stage benchmark showing reset-free RL agents hit a sharp reversibility cliff - once trapped in irreversible states, learning halts.
Harvard and MIT researchers released MatrAIx, an open-source system that simulates 8.3 billion AI personas across 1,290 behavioral dimensions. The platform lets product teams stress-test features and AI systems against a planetary-scale synthetic population overnight.
Runway announced Solaris, an Interface World Model that generates interactive UIs frame by frame at 720p with 37 ms latency, removing the code layer between design and running app. The shift challenges coding assistants and design tools by making the model itself responsible for every pixel and interaction.
Black Forest Labs has introduced FLUX 3, a new multimodal foundation model that jointly learns from images, video, and audio within a single unified. The unified multimodal approach addresses a fundamental limitation of modality-specific.
Google DeepMind has unveiled Gemini Robotics ER 2, a new embodied reasoning model designed to serve as a high-level brain for robots. Announced on July 30, 2026, the system introduces real-time video understanding, multi-step task.
Article 50 of the EU AI Act entered into force on 2 August 2026, imposing transparency obligations on providers and deployers of certain AI systems. The entry into force of Article 50 marks a significant milestone in the EU's regulatory.
CISA added CVE-2026-21962, an actively exploited Oracle WebLogic and HTTP Server access control flaw, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on August 24. Federal agencies have until August 27 to remediate, setting a three-day benchmark for all organizations running exposed instances.
Perplexity blocked Time's markdown ads served only to AI crawlers, calling the practice deceptive and warning publishers risk a trust-score downgrade. The clash tests whether agent-facing ad inventory is a legitimate revenue channel or cloaking by another name.
Security researcher Nightmare Eclipse released the ShieldBreak zero-day exploit for Microsoft Defender, claiming it bypasses the July patch for CVE-2026-50656. The flaw grants SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows 11 and Server 2025 when Defender is enabled.
Apple filed a federal lawsuit on July 10, 2026 accusing OpenAI of orchestrating a systematic campaign to steal trade secrets through targeted employee. The lawsuit lands at a moment of maximum financial stakes for both principals.