Category: Robotics
From combat to space: Foundation Robotics’ Mike LeBlanc talks humanoids
Mike LeBlanc, co-founder of Foundation Robotics and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, shares insights from his entrepreneurial journey.
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Robot Talk Episode 136 – Making driverless vehicles smarter, with Shimon Whiteson
Claire chatted to Shimon Whiteson from Waymo about machine learning for autonomous vehicles. Shimon Whiteson is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Waymo UK. His research focuses on deep reinforcement learning and imitation learning, with applications in robotics and video games. He completed his […]
Robots’ Holiday Wishes Come True: NVIDIA Jetson Platform Offers High-Performance Edge AI at Festive Prices
Developers, researchers, hobbyists and students can take a byte out of holiday shopping this season as NVIDIA has unwrapped special discounts on the NVIDIA Jetson family of developer kits for edge AI and robotics — available through Sunday, Jan. 11. Whether tapping into the breakthrough capabilities of Jetson AGX Thor, the versatility of Jetson AGX
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Teaching robot policies without new demonstrations: interview with Jiahui Zhang and Jesse Zhang
The ReWiND method, which consists of three phases: learning a reward function, pre-training, and using the reward function and pre-trained policy to learn a new language-specified task online. In their paper ReWiND: Language-Guided Rewards Teach Robot Policies without New Demonstrations, which was presented at CoRL 2025, Jiahui Zhang, Yusen Luo, Abrar Anwar, Sumedh A. Sontakke, […]
Waymo laying groundwork to bring robotaxis to 4 more cities
Waymo is starting manual driving in its newest cities this week. The company did not specify a timeline for commercial robotaxi launch.
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Humanoid says its first bipedal robot can walk 48 hours after assembly
The bipedal robot expands Humanoid’s portfolio, following the wheeled Alpha platform, which has completed its first commercial POCs.
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