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Apple is building humanoid robot brains. Apple researchers have published HALO, a system that lets a Unitree G1 humanoid move around rooms it has never seen before. Tell it to “go sit on the chair” and it finds the chair, walks over and sits down. It can also crouch or crawl under tables, step through half-open doors and push boxes. The robot carries an Apple Mac mini with an M4 Pro chip on its back. That computer runs the models that decide what to do and plan each movement. Nothing runs in the cloud, and nobody steers the robot remotely. Most of the training data came from simulation: about 300 hours of humanlike movement, placed in 1,000 computer-generated living rooms, offices and bedrooms. Nobody teleoperated the robot to collect it. The robot succeeded in 91% of 360 real-world trials across six skills. All eight authors work at Apple, and the code is on GitHub.

$MVIS Alphabet’s Drone Unit to Invest Up to $125 Million in New Texas Facility. Wing operates from more than 70 sites. The company plans to expand its service to nearly 20 U.S. markets, reaching more than 40 million Americans by 2027. #Lidar used ? wing.com/news/investing-in-a…

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$63 million: the Army ordered Leonardo DRS's FWS-I thermal sight, which feeds its picture into ENVG-B and IVAS. No unit count freedomwire.news/article/leo…

@KAJIMA_CORP announced that FieldAI-powered robots are in full-scale deployment across its construction sites in Japan, with deployments and applications continuing to expand. Field Foundation Models™ serve as a general-purpose robot “brain,” enabling diverse missions across multiple robot types. Kajima has put that intelligence to work in some of the most demanding conditions: into a collapsed roadway, up to a hazardous tunnel face, and even through the air on a crane. The same “brain” can extend to new applications, from large machines for earthwork to humanoids for manipulation. This is what the future of construction looks like. Read the full announcement here: kajima.co.jp/english/news/in…

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