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Iván Hernández Dalas: Boston Dynamics and Google Deepmind are using Gemini to make Spot smarter

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Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped equipped with AIVI-Learning. | Source: Boston Dynamics Boston Dynamics today announced it is partnering with Google Cloud and Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini and Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 into Orbit AIVI -Learning. The robotics developer said the integration will allow it to deliver a more sophisticated, intuitive, and powerful AI experience. Industrial environments are incredibly complex, and the assets Boston Dynamics’ customers manage require more than just basic object recognition. The company said Gemini will bring better reasoning and adaptability to AIVI-Learning. Boston Dynamics Spot and Orbit now continuously learn about the facility they’re deployed in with unprecedented depth. This, the company said, allows for higher-order reasoning and more complex visual analysis. DeepMind released Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 today. The upgraded reasoning-first model features enhanced reasoning and multi-view understanding, DeepMind said. It specializes...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Ouster releases Stereolabs ZED X Nano wrist-mounted camera

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Ouster provides digital lidar, cameras, AI compute, sensor fusion and perception software, and AI models. | Source: Ouster Ouster, Inc. yesterday released Stereolabs ZED X Nano, a compact wrist-mount stereo camera engineered for robotic manipulation, imitation learning, and high-throughput data collection. “Building on Stereolabs leadership in AI vision and perception solutions, the ZED X Nano allows us to go deeper into the industrial and robotics markets to win new sockets that require smaller form-factor placements,” said Ouster CEO Angus Pacala. “The future of Physical AI depends on massive amounts of high-quality, low-latency image data collected at the edge. With the ZED X Nano, we’re giving roboticists a major upgrade to their vision systems, enabling machines to sense, think, act, and learn with unprecedented precision.” As robotics teams scale imitation learning and reinforcement learning for manipulation tasks, RGB image quality and end-to-end capture latency have becom...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: What I’ve learned from 25 years of automated science, and what the future holds: an interview with Ross King

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AIhub is excited to launch a new series, speaking with leading researchers to explore the breakthroughs driving AI and the reality of the future promises – to give you an inside perspective on the headlines. The first interviewee is Ross King, who created the first robot scientist back in 2009. He spoke to us about the nature of scientific discovery, the role AI has to play, and his recent work in DNA computing. Automated science is a really exciting area, and it feels like everyone’s talking about it at the moment – e.g. AlphaFold sharing the 2024 Nobel Prize. But you’ve been working in this field for many years now. In 2009 you developed Adam, the first robot scientist to generate novel scientific knowledge. Could you tell me some more about that? So the history goes back to before Adam. Back in the late 1990s, I moved from a postdoc at what was then the Imperial Cancer Research Fund – now Cancer Research UK – and got my first academic job at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. ...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: AGIBOT launches Genie Studio Agent zero-code application platform for robots

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With Genie Studio Agent, AGIBOT said it is shifting from project-based deployments to ecosystem-driven scaling. | Source: AGIBOT AGIBOT today launched Genie Studio Agent, a zero-code application platform for robot development. The company said it designed the agent to make building and scaling robot applications as simple as assembling blocks. As embodied AI advances rapidly, breakthroughs in perception, decision-making, and control, powered by increasingly capable models and algorithms, are pushing the industry toward a new phase of scalability. Yet a critical challenge remains: how to deploy robots in real-world environments efficiently and at scale, especially for those without coding or engineering expertise. AGIBOT said it is releasing Genie Studio Agent in response to this challenge. From model capability to deployment at scale In 2025, AGIBOT introduced Genie Studio , a one-stop embodied AI development platform, enabling end-to-end workflows across data collection, mode...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Pickle Robot to share lessons learned from taking robots out of the lab and into the field

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Pickle uses robotic gripping technology working in coordination with path planning to pick and place packages at human or better-than-human speed. | Source: Pickle Robot Co. Moving robots from controlled lab settings into live customer environments exposes challenges and stress that no one can predict. At the Robotics Summit & Expo , which takes place May 27-28, 2026, in Boston, Ariana Eisenstein, the founder and CTO of Pickle Robot Co ., will be sharing the company’s own learnings from bringing its truck unloading robot to workplaces. This session, “Lessons from Taking Robots Out of the Lab and Into the Field,” breaks down the lessons Pickle learned in making warehouse robots not only reliable but also commercially viable. From hardware durability to autonomy edge cases and customer integration, Eisenstein will share the learnings from what it really takes to deploy robots that perform during shifts, day after day. Eisenstein is known for building and leading high-performing ...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Transitive Robotics announces Transitive 2.0 open-source robotics framework

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Transitive Robotics is announcing a new major version of Transitive, the open-source framework for full-stack robotics. Version 2.0 adds significant new integrations and features: storage of historic and time-series data in ClickHouse, visualization in Grafana, and custom alerting via Alertmanager. Together with the release of some capabilities, like the free Health Monitoring capability, robotics companies already use these features, providing added value to robotics companies with growing fleets. Fleet operation at scale Until now, Transitive has been very much focused on transactional features needed for the operation of robot fleets . This includes popular capabilities like WebRTC Video streaming , Remote Teleop , and ROS Tool . These capabilities are particularly empowering to robotics companies that have not yet deployed more than 50 robots. Transitive’s open-source MQTTSync data protocol, its realization of full-stack packages , and the built-in fine-grained authentication...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Locus Robotics launches Locus Array for fully autonomous fulfillment

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Locus Array combines an omnidirectional base, vision, and a robot arm for mobile picking. Source: Locus Robotics Mobile manipulation is starting to scale in response to supply chain challenges. Locus Robotics today announced at MODEX the global launch of Locus Array. The system combines a mobile robot, an integrated picking arm, and AI-powered perception for autonomous execution. “The No. 1 problem facing supply chains today is uncertainty,” said Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics. “Whether it’s COVID-19, peak seasons, or tariffs, costs have climbed while productivity hasn’t.” “Warehouse operations are facing increasing pressure from labor constraints, rising costs, and constant variability that traditional systems can’t absorb,” he said. “Locus Array brings autonomy into real-world operations at scale, introducing a fundamentally different, system-level approach designed to solve these challenges at their core.” “Array is a step toward a facility that runs itself, a holy grail ...
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