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Owlchemy Labs is celebrating a decade of Job Simulator with more than 6 million installs, solidifying its status as one of VR’s earliest and most enduring hits. The game helped kick off the first wave of consumer VR
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Louisiana has signed a memorandum of understanding with Persona AI to launch a humanoid robotics pilot at SSE Steel Fabrication’s facility in St. Bernard Parish.
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Nucleus4D has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to expand its spatial computing platform for digitizing real-world environments. The round was led by Antler and South Loop Ventures
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Zipline has surpassed 2 million commercial deliveries and raised over $600 million in new funding. The company will begin autonomous delivery operations in Houston and Phoenix in early 2026.
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Waymo has officially launched its autonomous ride-hailing service to the public in Miami. Initial access will be rolling out to nearly 10,000 residents who signed up in advance.
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Lynx has unveiled the R2, its next-generation mixed reality headset built for professional environments, including healthcare, industry, and research. The device combines open hardware access with privacy protections designed to meet institutional standards.
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Boston Dynamics has introduced Spot Cam 2, a new camera system for its mobile robot, Spot. The upgraded system includes a 4K pan-tilt-zoom camera with 25x optical zoom, a radiometric thermal camera, and a wide-angle spherical lens.
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World Labs has launched the World API, a tool for generating explorable 3D environments from text, images, panoramas, and video. Powered by Marble, the company’s multimodal world model
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The NBA has announced the latest group in its Launchpad program, which finds and tests new technologies that could shape the future of basketball. For its fifth year, the league picked five companies from a pool of over 200 applicants.
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Microsoft has introduced Rho-alpha, a vision-language-action model that lets robots follow spoken or written instructions like “Insert the plug” or “Turn the knob to position 5.” It combines visual input with a sense of touch to guide actions
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Serve Robotics will acquire Diligent Robotics in a $29 million stock deal, with an additional earn-out of up to $5.3 million. Serve Robotics develops autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, while Diligent Robotics builds AI-powered assistant robots for hospitals.
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Sharpa has introduced CraftNet, a control system for fine robotic manipulation that combines vision, tactile sensing, language, and action, what the company calls VTLA.