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• Anthropic standard lets AI agents run lab and factory hardware

  Anthropic has opened a research preview of its Model Hardware Standard, letting AI agents operate lab and factory hardware. The specification, called MHS, is going first to a small group of scientific research labs and advanced manufacturers, not to the public. Anthropic says the standard lets an AI agent run several lab instruments in parallel. […]

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• Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano 2 targets factory-floor edge AI

  Nvidia has introduced the Jetson Orin Nano 2, a compact robotics computer designed to run AI workloads at the edge. The company is targeting robots, delivery and inspection drones, and vision AI systems. Smaller and more efficient AI models are allowing more language, vision, and reasoning workloads to run on compact edge hardware, according to […]

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• Waymo explains AI behind 200M driverless miles

  Waymo has outlined the AI architecture behind more than 200 million fully driverless miles, from sensor fusion to safety validation. The company published an account describing ten lessons drawn from that mileage, covering sensor design, model architecture, and the internal checks it applies before allowing new capabilities onto public roads. Waymo frames the lessons as […]

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• Airbound raises $37M for autonomous drone delivery network

  Airbound has raised $37 million to scale its autonomous drone delivery network, backed by a new Andhra Pradesh deployment deal. The big question for aerial delivery pilots has always been whether the underlying aircraft economics can compete with a truck on cost and a plane on speed in the same shipment. Airbound’s pitch to investors […]

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• Generalist AI’s GEN-1.5 robot model learns tasks from one demo

  The GEN-1.5 robot model from Generalist AI learns new physical tasks from one demo, without gradient updates. The company describes GEN-1.5 as the first model it knows of to show one-shot and few-shot learning of physical skills at scale. That claim points at a specific trade-off: whether teaching a machine a new job still requires […]

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