Sam Altman-backed Coco Robotics raises M

Sam Altman-backed Coco Robotics raises $80M

Los Angeles-based Coco Robotics, a startup building last-mile delivery robots, announced it raised $80 million on Wednesday. The funding round included angel investors Sam Altman and Max Altman, both returning investors, in addition to VC firms like Pelion Venture Partners and Offline Ventures, among others. This brings the company’s total funding to more than $120…

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Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook

Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook

It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. Earlier this week, AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on “compatibly licensed,” community-shared datasets, SmolVLA outperforms much larger models for robotics in both virtual and real-world environments, Hugging Face claims. “SmolVLA aims to democratize…

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Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots

Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots

AI dev platform Hugging Face continued its push into robotics on Thursday with the release of two new humanoid robots. The company announced a pair of open source robots, HopeJR and Reachy Mini. HopeJR is a full-size humanoid robot that has 66 actuated degrees of freedom, or 66 independent movements, including the ability to walk…

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Humanoid AI-powered robots duke it out in China fight comp

Humanoid AI-powered robots duke it out in China fight comp

Unitree director Wang Qixin says the robotics company used AI and motion capture to train the robots on real fight moves. Four artificial intelligence-enhanced robots have been put through their paces in a Chinese robot fighting competition, duking it out in kickboxing matches until one was declared the champion. The World Robot Competition Mecha Fighting…

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