Nvidia deepens partnerships with Japanese robotics companies
Nvidia announced collaboration with Japanese robotics firms and linked national AI infrastructure directly to physical-AI development.
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Sony opens aibo research platform to university collaboration
Sony announced university collaboration and an R&D-use aibo prototype to expand learning, interaction, and service capabilities.
RoboCup coverage highlights widening tasks beyond robot football
RoboCup 2026 showcased humanoids and service robots addressing household, logistics, and human-assistance tasks beyond competition football.
Addverb advances India’s domestically engineered wheeled humanoid
Addverb unveiled Elixis-W, a made-in-India wheeled humanoid designed for industrial logistics and material-handling applications.
Singapore launches a regional AI-builder program spanning Southeast Asia
A Singapore hackathon program is planned to expand into Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Malaysia, widening applied-AI developer networks.
Decentralized JEPA predicts a shared future for robot teams
CS-JEPA lets distributed robots predict a common future collective state from local observations and limited messages.
