Robotics is entering a new phase where progress is driven less by isolated breakthroughs and more by accessible, high-quality AI building blocks. In that context, Alibaba’s decision to open-source ...

Google LLC today debuted an internally developed software tool that can reduce the amount of effort involved in training a robot to perform new tasks. The tool is known as Code as Policies, or CaP. It ...

Foundation models have made great advances in robotics, enabling the creation of vision-language-action (VLA) models that generalize to objects, scenes, and tasks beyond their training data. However, ...

Just a few months after buying fellow robotic software firm Vicarious, Alphabet-owned Intrinsic has acquired several divisions within Open Robotics, the company behind the widely used robotics ...

The Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) this week announced the launch of the similarly named Open Source Robotics Alliance (OSRA). The new initiative is designed to maintain development for and ...

Hugging Face, the New York City startup that maintains the popular open-source repository of machine learning and AI code of the same name and the open-source ChatGPT-rival Hugging Chat is launching a ...

The open source AI community Hugging Face has bought open source humanoid robots company Pollen Robots, Hugging Face announced this morning. That’s great news for pretty much every country that is not ...

Offline programming, or OLP, can accelerate robot deployment in high-mix, low-volume applications, explains the founder and ...