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Robots and AI could reach 80% of work but rarely cheaply, Anthropic says

Robots and AI models together could take on about 80% of the work Americans do, Anthropic says. But robots are cheaper than people for just 0.3% of tasks today. The findings come from Anthropic’s new robotics study, which Business Insider picked up this week. It extends the company’s earlier research on how AI chatbots affect jobs. Different jobs […]

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Faraday Future unveils a $2,490 humanoid robot for developers and schools

Faraday Future and FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem launched two humanoid robots on 15 October: the $2,490 FF Nova for developers and schools, and the $299 FF Nova Mini for children. Nova’s first 100 units are invitation-only. The launch follows FFR’s agreement to buy FF’s robotics business in a $200M all-stock deal. Faraday Future and its […]

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DeepSeek to lead seed round in $400mn robot AI start-up, Bloomberg reports

DeepSeek has agreed to lead the first funding round for Winverse AI, a start-up building AI for robots, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The seed round is worth tens of millions of dollars and would value Winverse at about $400mn after the investment. Meituan’s investment arm, Long-Z, has also committed, the people said. […]

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Wayve and Stellantis tune one AI driver for Fiat, Jeep and Maserati

Every car will one day need an AI driving system, just as it needs seatbelts and emergency braking, Wayve chief executive Alex Kendall said. He spoke with Stellantis chief executive Antonio Filosa at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas moderated. “I think over time we’re going to see this kind […]

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Odyssey-3 drives a car in India and runs humanoids from one world model

Odyssey has launched Odyssey-3, a world model that the Palo Alto AI lab says can control robot arms and humanoids, drive a car, fly drones and play video games. A research preview is available now, the company said on Thursday. World models learn from large amounts of visual data to predict how a scene will […]

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DoorDash’s Tony Xu says AI agents will increase demand for human labour

DoorDash co-founder and chief executive Tony Xu says more AI agents will mean more demand for physical delivery networks, and even for human labour. He spoke on Wednesday at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled “Inside the Making of DoorDash”. AI agents have probably already overtaken humans in the number of things […]

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Atomic Machines emerges with $250M to build micro-machines from code

Atomic Machines has come out of six years in stealth with $250M raised. It says its system builds working micro-machines straight from code. The Bay Area start-up announced the launch on Wednesday. Its first product is a power switch for AI data centres. Founder and chief executive Jeff Holden joined Amazon as its tenth engineer […]

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Sereact’s robots now sort Zalando returns in Germany and Poland

Robots from Stuttgart start-up Sereact are now sorting Zalando’s fashion returns in live operations in Germany and Poland. The two-armed machines work at CEVA Logistics sites in Greven, Germany, and Świebodzin, Poland, the three companies said on Wednesday. It is the first step of a plan to automate returns across Europe. Zalando joined Sereact’s Series […]

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EU-funded robot uses magnets to steer graphene implants into the brain

A European research group has built a robot that uses magnets to steer ultra-thin graphene electrodes into the brain. Barcelona’s INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, which leads the clinical work, announced the results on Wednesday, at the end of the EU-funded MINIGRAPH project. The project’s first target is Parkinson’s disease. Doctors already treat it with deep brain stimulation, […]

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Boston Dynamics names Rohit Prasad, who helped build Amazon’s Alexa, as CEO

Boston Dynamics has named Rohit Prasad chief executive from 7 October, the robot maker said in a statement on Tuesday. The company said he will speed up its Physical AI strategy. That plan combines its robots with advanced AI to sell intelligent machines at scale. Prasad was senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa […]

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