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ISSUE 168EVENING

Embodied AI, Robotics Data and Physical Safety

China's robot brain race runs on a thousand human demonstrations

Spirit AI forecasts a 2027 leap for general-purpose robots. Its more revealing evidence is a Beijing room full of people opening fridges, turning locks, and teaching machines how bodies move.

#robotics#china#embodied-ai
ISSUE 109MORNING

Robotics, Demonstration Learning and Human Control

A robot learned the new job from one video, then got a human check

Skild AI says S1 can attempt a new multistep task from a single visual demonstration without changing its weights. Fast instruction is useful. Reliable physical work still needs testing, recovery, and a stop button.

#robotics#in-context-learning#manufacturing
ISSUE 055MORNING

Autonomous Science and Physical Systems

Before the AI touches the robot arm, it has to prove the experiment is possible

Researchers built a computable representation of the laboratory so an agent can verify equipment, materials, dependencies, and safety constraints before physical work begins.

#science#agents#robotics
ISSUE 039EVENING

Robotics and Physical AI

A useful robot model needs an assembly line for learning

AWS and Nvidia are treating robot development as a continuous factory that generates experience, trains behavior, tests it in simulation, and starts the loop again.

#robotics#models#infrastructure