📬 Remix Reality Weekly: The Streets Are Changing

Your free Friday drop of spatial computing updates—plus what Remix Reality Insiders unlocked this week.

🛰️ The Signal

This week’s defining shift.

Physical AI is moving from prototype to platform.

For years, humanoids and service robots felt like science projects limited by clunky hardware and brittle software. That bottleneck is breaking as NVIDIA’s Jetson Thor goes from launch to rapid adoption. The compute platform is already anchoring a growing ecosystem of partners, developers, and use cases, making robotics less about individual breakthroughs and more about a shared stack that scales.

👉 Get the full insight in this week’s Insider drop.

📡 Weekly Radar

Your weekly scan across the spatial computing stack.

🤖 Jetson Thor Now Available, Offering 7.5x AI Boost for Robotics

• NVIDIA's Jetson AGX Thor developer kit and Jetson T5000 production modules are now generally available.

🌊 Aquanaut Mark 2 Hits 2,300-Meter Milestone in Untethered Deepwater Test

• Aquanaut Mark 2 reached a depth of 2,300 meters during a test in the Gulf of Mexico.

💊 OPTEL Acquires Vanguard Robotics to Expand Pharma Cobot Capabilities

• OPTEL has acquired Vanguard Robotics to integrate collaborative robotic automation into its pharmaceutical manufacturing solutions.

✈️ Loft Dynamics Raises $24M to Expand VR Pilot Training Across Airlines

• New funding will support the rollout of VR airline simulators and the development of a spatial computing–powered home training kit.

👓 Rokid Launches AI & AR Glasses With Strong Kickstarter Momentum

• Rokid has introduced lightweight smart glasses combining AR visuals and AI-driven tools for real-time interaction.

🌞 IBM and NASA Create a Digital Twin of the Sun to Predict Solar Disruptions

• Surya is the first foundation model trained to simulate the Sun’s behavior using satellite imagery and magnetic data.

👨‍💻 Meta Expands GenAI Toolkit with Environment Generation and Embodied NPCs

• Environment Generation is now available in the Worlds Desktop Editor, building on Meta’s existing GenAI tools.

⚡ VoxelSensors Partners with Qualcomm to Deliver Ultra-Low-Power 3D Sensing for XR

• VoxelSensors will optimize its SPAES 3D sensing technology with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1 platform.

🚗 Nuro Raises $203M to Expand AI-Driven Autonomy and Global Robotaxi Partnerships

• Nuro closed a $203 million Series E round at a $6 billion valuation, adding new investors including Uber, NVIDIA, and Kindred Ventures.

🌀 Tom's Take

Unfiltered POV from the editor-in-chief.

I somehow got on the side of TikTok where delivery robots are in danger. These videos usually show one of them trying to cross a busy street in LA, with the person recording rooting for it to make it to the other side. Sometimes they succeed. Too often they don’t. You watch as human-driven cars cut them off, block their path, or even run them over. The cheers turn into gasps.

It got me thinking about how messy this in-between time really is. We’re still driving while robots are just starting to share the streets. Robots thrive on predictability. Humans bring chaos. For a delivery bot or an AV, the hardest part of the trip isn’t the road or the weather. It’s us. We’re the wild card.

That tension raises an uncomfortable but important question. Could we start to see areas where only robots are allowed to take the wheel? Dedicated AV lanes have been talked about and, in some areas, are being planned, but you can imagine how much more effective it would be if they were fully rolled out. An environment built for stability rather than surprises. In the same way bike lanes gave cyclists a chance to safely move through cities, AV-only lanes could give robots a fighting chance to do the same.

The shift wouldn’t happen overnight. Cities don’t reconfigure themselves easily. But the logic is there. If autonomy is here to stay, our streets may need to adapt. And maybe the real test won’t just be whether robots can handle us. It will be whether we can make space for them.

🔒 What Insiders Got This Week

This week’s Insider drop included:

• 🧠 Reality Decoded: Four reasons why robotaxis will replace your rideshare.
• 🔮 What’s Next: Cities opening to autonomy; delivery robots take various forms; and the consumer XR wave builds

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