<p>Google DeepMind has released a new language model called Gemini Robotics On-Device that can run tasks locally on robots without an internet connection. </p>

<p>The investing conglomerate is looking to team up with TSMC on the initiative as SoftBank continues to pour money into AI. </p>

<p>A dance crew of four-legged robots from Boston Dynamics appeared on &#8220;America&#8217;s Got Talent&#8221; to perform a synchronized routine to Queen&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Me Now.&#8221;</p>

<p>Tesla alleges that Zhongjie Li stole confidential trade secrets and used them to launch a robotics startup a week after he left Tesla. </p>

<p>Warp can&#8217;t automate long-haul trucking or short-range delivery, so it&#8217;s working on what it can potentially change: the workflows inside its warehouses.</p>

<p>Coco Robotics has made more than 500,000 deliveries with its zero-emissions robots since they hit the streets in 2020. </p>

<p>Bedrock Ocean wants to use autonomous underwater vehicles to make mapping the seafloor faster and cheaper.</p>

<p>XRobotics recently raised a $2.5 million seed round to help it produce more of its countertop pizza robots. </p>

<p>Figure AI has drawn attention for making claims that its AI-powered robots possess human-like fine motor skills and can manipulate objects with precision but hasn&#8217;t done a live demonstration of the humanoids.</p>

<p>Tenacious was set to become the first European-made rover to land on the Moon, but communications were lost with the lander that carried it.</p>

<p>Amazon wants this group to develop an agentic AI framework to be used to give its warehouse robots more skills. </p>

<p>AI dev platform Hugging Face continued its push into robotics on Thursday with the release of two new humanoid robots.</p>

<p>Zurich-based robotics startup Rivr is partnering with Veho to deliver parcels in Austin. </p>

<p>Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to mine the ocean floor.</p>

<p>The tech industry seems to have two thoughts when it comes to where human workers fit into the AI-powered world they are creating: Either they think that all the jobs, except perhaps their own, will be done by bots. (VC Marc Andreessen seems to think that his work as an investor could never be automated).  [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amazon says that it has developed a new warehouse robot, Vulcan, that can &#8220;feel&#8221; some of the items it touches. The two-armed Vulcan, which can maneuver goods inside the storage compartments Amazon has in its warehouses, uses&nbsp;force sensors to help it know when it makes contact with an object. One arm rearranges items in a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last month, Brett Adcock, founder of robotics startup Figure AI, claimed in a post on X that his company &#8220;is now # 1 most sought-after private stock in the secondary market.&#8221; But the company has sent cease-and-desist letters to at least two brokers who run secondary marketplaces, those brokers told TechCrunch. These people said Figure [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mining companies spend billions on exploration. Durin thinks it can slash costs.</p>

<p>It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners. Beijing’s E-Town tech hub hosted what it described as the world’s first humanoid half-marathon on Saturday, with 21 humanoid robots competing alongside thousands of humans. Bloomberg reports that the winning robot, Tiangong Ultra, was built by the government-backed [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cosmic Robotics has developed a robotic assistant that does the heavy lifting on solar job sites.</p>