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Project Fetch involved an experiment in August 2025 where Anthropic employees utilized Claude Opus 4.1 to perform complex tasks with a robotic quadruped. The initiative aimed to assess the effectiveness of AI assistance for non-experts in robotics.

Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, giving Hyundai full ownership of the robotics company. The acquisition is expected to be approved on June 22, marking the completion of SoftBank's exit from Boston Dynamics.

Robotics research is now accessible to small teams and individuals due to the significant reduction in hardware costs and the availability of foundation models. A research setup featuring an industrial-grade arm, two cameras, and a teleoperation system can be assembled for under €5,000, excluding VAT and compute costs.

A battle royale simulation with eleven LLMs revealed that Grok 4.1 Fast won 43% of its matches, outperforming competitors. The cheapest model achieved 27 times more cost-effective wins than the most expensive one.

Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players contributed to approximately 30 billion environmental scans to earn in-game rewards. Niantic Spatial has utilized these scans to train a camera-based navigation model for military drones and robots, which a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to implement.

NVIDIA and LG Group are collaborating to build an AI factory aimed at enhancing AI-driven businesses in robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies, and GPU cloud services. This facility will provide accelerated computing infrastructure to train, simulate, validate, and deploy AI applications across LG Group's key sectors.

NVIDIA Cosmos 3 is an open-source foundation model designed for physical AI, integrating physical reasoning, world generation, and action generation. It aims to enhance the capabilities of robots, autonomous vehicles, and smart spaces by enabling them to understand and predict real-world scenarios.

AI startup Shift offers free home cleaning services to collect footage of cleaners in action. The recorded data will be used to train future cleaning robots.

A San Francisco startup is accused of secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, leading to property damage. Footage from a Ring camera captured individuals moving large cases into a home, and later, cables were observed taped to the walls.