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📰 News SWIFT-Build, a €4 million EU-funded project with Foster + Partners and six universities, plans robot swarms that assemble timber buildings top-down — starting with the roof on the ground.
📰 News US immigration officers could soon work alongside quadruped robots. A DHS notice describes Spot as an inspection tool — but police deployments so far show public tolerance is the hard part.
📰 News The data centres powering AI may soon be partly maintained by robots. Meta is testing cable-swap and server-restart machines from three vendors — and technicians are nervous.
📰 News The Nvidia-backed startup's Gen 1.5 model lets robots learn new tasks from 3-to-12-second video clips. Its competitors are valued even higher.
📰 News Two CVEs disclosed this week describe wormable root-level compromise of Unitree's $20,000 humanoid robot, one chain beginning from unpaired Bluetooth writes.
📰 News Tencent's Hy4 preview activates just 49B of its 770B parameters per request. It beat GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3 in a blind expert evaluation. The model also contributed to its own training pipeline.
📰 News Perceptron AI's Isaac 0.5 is the first open model at the frontier of video understanding, embodied reasoning, and robot control. Trained on one million hours of video, it cuts teleoperation data requirements by 210x.
📰 News Anthropic previewed the Model Hardware Standard: a shared specification letting AI agents operate physical lab and manufacturing equipment. The standard is model-agnostic, works via MCP, and will eventually be open source.
📰 News A Stanford-led consortium released Terminal-Bench-Science: 70 real scientific workflows, curated by researchers themselves. The strongest model, Claude Opus 5, resolves 30 per cent. The rest do worse.
📰 News San Jose has no formal rules for the delivery robots already on its sidewalks. DoorDash's 350-pound Dot robots are next, and the city is still writing the playbook.
📰 News SoftBank's $6 billion bid for 1X Technologies lands below the Norwegian startup's own $10 billion target, a signal that investor appetite for humanoid robotics may be cooling even as shipments surge.
📰 News Microduck is a 25cm, $399 robot you can train to walk, kick, and pick things up — using open-source tools. Pollen Robotics built it for exactly the kind of hands-on learning NZ schools are trying to deliver. Pre-orders are open now.