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Robot-control AI models that turn camera images and language instructions directly into actions; examples include RT-2, OpenVLA, π0 and Figure's Helix.
GroundingPI reports 5 ms box output on one A100 and over 90% pick-and-place success at 30 Hz, according to a dev.to write-up. Public weights, ONNX export and a ROS bridge let a team check both numbers in its own control loop.
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Brooklyn startup Ultra raised $62 million to rent packing robots to warehouses by the month, running AI from Physical Intelligence. Its claimed pricing power leans on software that, Fortune reported, Physical Intelligence also supplies to numerous other robot makers.
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Destro came out of stealth with an $8 million seed for software that tells both robots and dock workers what to do at Yusen Logistics. So far the case rests on that one customer, whose three-robot cross-dock pilot is growing into a 26-robot deployment.
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Twenty-two provincial innovation centres opened within 14 months, and Wuhan alone logs 24,000 training entries a day. But Beijing's Shijingshan centre dropped its robot partner over weak data sales, so subsidy is still paying the bill.
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Hyundai Motor Group told a media day in Seongnam that Level 2+ reaches mass production in the first half of 2028, and that it will pass competitors' accumulated driving data within five years of that start. About 40 cars collect its data now.
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Index pays crowd contributors for first-person household video. Figure's own figures put contributor spend near $3.75m a month, and they do not reconcile into an hourly wage.
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