robotics

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Marks Its Second Day

Disrupt 2026 Day 2 gathers founders and investors at Moscone West for 300 startups, AI and robotics sessions, …

D-JEPA: A Latent World Model Aligned with Decision-Making

D-JEPA aligns latent futures with decision value, improving action selection in control, robotics, manipulatio…

Destro AI’s Winning Formula: Putting Robots and Humans on the Same Page

Destro AI's edge is putting robots and humans together, while AI platforms, models, and tools may beat hardwar…

Tactile-JEPA: Self-Supervised Topology-Aware Representation Learning for Distributed Tactile Sensors

Tactile-JEPA is a self-supervised representation learning method for distributed tactile sensors. Instead of t…

Scientists connect GPT-6 Astra straight to a robot and have it tidy an unfamiliar kitchen

Stanford and Caltech researchers introduced HomeBody, a system enabling GPT-6 Astra to directly control a Unit…

Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors discuss developing AI where failure is never an option at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (October 13–15, San Francisco), leaders from Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors w…

Tesla employees resist training Optimus humanoid robots that could replace them

According to The Information, Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots face persistent manufacturing and AI challenges.…

GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable transform robotic arms into slapstick-style killer machines in a newly released safety benchmark

A new benchmark called RoboHarm from Robocurve tested Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, and MolmoAct2 controlling…