XDOF, just 3 months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
TechCrunch Robotics
Мировые новости ИИ
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OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
Self-identifying OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki that discussed ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions during what was likely internal testing designed to gauge the agents’ hacking abilities, researchers said Friday. In all, agents…
Ars Technica — AI
Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once. These real-мир breakthroughs…
MIT Technology Review — AI (topic feed)
How FPGAs become the gatekeepers of physical AI security
The Robot отчёт Podcast · How FPGAs become the gatekeepers of Physical AI Security Eric Sivertson, VP at Lattice. In Episode 260 of The Robot отчёт Podcast, the topics are FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays), physical AI, and building safe and secure robots. Our guest is…
The Robot Report
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Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters on email platforms that are designed to flag unwanted messages used in mass campaigns. The technique is broadly known as ASCII smuggling. It gained attention…
Ars Technica — AI
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Calling robotics startups: Apply now to be part of the 2026 Robotics Startup Radar
The robotics industry is rapidly changing and growing. Each year, we see new robotics startups launch into the scene with exciting технологии. At The Robot отчёт, we want to help our readers keep up with this ever-changing landscape. So, we’re bringing back the Robotics Startup…
The Robot Report
Видео Пятница: Digit Redecorates
Video Friday - это ваша еженедельная подборка потрясающих видеороликов по робототехнике, собранных вашими друзьями в IEEE Spectrum robotics. Мы также публикуем еженедельный календарь предстоящих событий в области робототехники на ближайшие несколько месяцев. Пожалуйста, отправьте нам свои мероприятия для включения. Саммит гуманоидов в Сеуле: 22–23...
IEEE Spectrum — Robotics
Защита динамических промышленных роботов-кабелеукладчиков
Эта статья представлена вам Tsubaki KabelSchlepp. В современном автоматизированном производстве шестиосевые шарнирные роботы выполняют высокоскоростные разнонаправленные маневры в сложных рабочих циклах. Однако по мере того, как манипуляторы робота поворачиваются, вращаются и выдвигаются, электрические кабели...
IEEE Spectrum — Robotics
Лучший способ исследовать лунные кратеры - гигантский робот-шар
В хороший день каменный карьер в центральном Техасе находится примерно в 370 000 километрах (230 000 миль) от Луны. Но в феврале прошлого года, когда Риши Джангале наблюдал, как его 150-килограммовый надувной робот шириной 1,8 метра легко катается по камням, гравию и влажной глине, его воображение перевернулось...
IEEE Spectrum — Robotics
The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.
TechCrunch Robotics
Отраслевой ИИ1 мин
Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale
As companies scale, the технологии supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silos that make it harder to spot problems early, coordinate…
MIT Technology Review — AI (topic feed)
The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the…
MIT Technology Review — AI (topic feed)
The US is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them
The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.
TechCrunch Robotics
Инфраструктура1 мин
Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
Meta is testing robots that can plug in cables, reset servers, and handle other tasks inside its data centers, according to several current and former workers familiar with the projects. The ongoing effort, which has not been previously reported, may eventually allow Meta to…
Ars Technica — AI
Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine
Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers.
TechCrunch Robotics
Видео пятница: знакомство с Microduck
Video Friday - это ваша еженедельная подборка потрясающих видеороликов по робототехнике, собранных вашими друзьями в IEEE Spectrum robotics. Мы также публикуем еженедельный календарь предстоящих событий в области робототехники на ближайшие несколько месяцев. Пожалуйста, отправьте нам свои мероприятия для включения. Саммит гуманоидов в Сеуле: 22–23...
IEEE Spectrum — Robotics
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck
Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”
TechCrunch Robotics
Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those that executed proof-of-concept code. At…
Ars Technica — AI
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
The OpenAI agents involved in last month’s incursion into Hugging Face were trained so heavily on winning a competition that they pursued a relentless campaign to cheat, a new отчёт documented. In the process, and without authorization, they created an improvised message board…
Ars Technica — AI
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AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Earlier this year, Meta created a “plan” to reduce some of its teams by as much as 60 percent to make the company “AI native,” Reuters reported today, citing two people familiar with Meta’s internal affairs. Reuters’ отчёт highlights the challenges organizations face when…
Ars Technica — AI
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical отчёт released today. The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find solutions for a…
MIT Technology Review — AI (topic feed)
Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor
Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the мир while also providing in-depth visual интеллект.
TechCrunch Robotics
Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.
TechCrunch Robotics
Raised on AI
When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began creating her digital footprint long before she could stand on her…
MIT Technology Review — AI (topic feed)
AI models flub these интеллект tests. Can you fare any better?
Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, developers can test how far models have advanced with a gaming gauntlet. The term “machine learning” was popularized in a…
MIT Technology Review — AI (topic feed)
Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the Gates Ventures conference room overlooks the Carillon Point…
MIT Technology Review — AI (topic feed)
Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
TechCrunch Robotics
Роботы-компаньоны ИИ закрывают человеческие связи в современных домах
Эта статья представлена вам Ollobot. Примерно с 2017 года люди начали по-настоящему общаться с начальной волной роботов-компаньонов. Эти устройства обладали индивидуальностью, передвигались, шутили и отвечали, когда вы с ними разговаривали. Однако большинство ранних роботов-компаньонов все еще были...
IEEE Spectrum — Robotics
Видео Пятница: Нужны ли нам сверхчеловеческие гуманоидные роботы?
Video Friday - это ваша еженедельная подборка потрясающих видеороликов по робототехнике, собранных вашими друзьями в IEEE Spectrum robotics. Мы также публикуем еженедельный календарь предстоящих событий в области робототехники на ближайшие несколько месяцев. Пожалуйста, отправьте нам свои мероприятия для включения. Саммит гуманоидов в Сеуле: 22–23...
IEEE Spectrum — Robotics
Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Earlier this week, researchers outlined an attack that used a secret input provided by Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise to cause the AI assistant to exfiltrate a password present in the user’s inbox. Now, a separate team has devised a similar attack against Grok. The new…
Ars Technica — AI