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.

Labubu is a small, fluffy toy characterized by stubby arms, rabbit ears, a round body, and large eyes. The toy contrasts with masculine clothing, suggesting a statement about gender expression.

Unitree Robotics has begun production of the GD01, a rideable transformer robot priced at approximately $537,000. This robot is marketed as the world's first mass-produced manned mech suit and is currently available only in China.

Humanoid robots take approximately 5,000 steps per hour, with each step generating forces of 2–3 times the robot's body weight through the leg actuators. This high duty cycle leads to actuator failures, prompting engineers to adopt similar solutions to enhance durability.

Waymo is expanding its autonomous vehicle services to Portland, Oregon, collaborating with state and city officials and community partners to establish a regulatory framework for deployment. Manual driving operations will commence as part of the groundwork for future service in the city.

A cooking project involving venison required learning to shoot and tracking progress through the adaptation of a 2012 OpenCV paper. Training a state-of-the-art computer vision model contributed to a longer preparation time for the dinner.