inDrive’s Kazakhstan Robotaxi Plan Begins With a Feasibility Test
The proposed Astana partnership separates vehicle technology, local operations and a still-unproven commercial model.
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Robotics & Autonomy
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Developments in robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, defense systems, edge AI, embodied intelligence and autonomous machines.
AI Driving Experiment Shows Physical Control While a Parking-Lot Test Reveals Limits
A supervised drive-through run with Astra demonstrates a narrow physical task. DrivingBench results remain slow and uneven, without establishing readiness for public roads.
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Pentagon’s Short-Video AI Procurement Push Raises Questions About Spending Visibility
WIRED examines how Tradewinds can shorten AI purchasing timelines while current priorities emphasize targeting and flexible contracts remain difficult to trace.
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Destro Raises $8 Million to Coordinate Warehouse Robots and Workers
Destro's $8 million seed round follows a Yusen Logistics cross-dock pilot, but its efficiency claims and plans for wider deployment remain unmeasured in the report.
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AMD’s World Labs Deal Raises an Enterprise Question About Robot-Simulation Workflows
World Labs' Marble already feeds robotics and design workflows that depend on other vendors' tools; AMD's proposed acquisition leaves their future compatibility unanswered.
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TRANSCOM Uses Randomised AI to Make Military Logistics Harder to Track
US Transportation Command is exploring adaptive and deliberately unpredictable logistics while trying to protect the data behind its decisions.
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Toyota’s Physical AI Push Starts With a $6.4 Billion Estimate
Toyota is considering 400,000 robots across its manufacturing network, while its own factory history shows why maintenance and reliability will shape the outcome.
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AstroForge Wants an AI Agent to Fly Without Earth
After losing control of an earlier deep-space prototype, AstroForge is testing a transformer-based control stack before a radio-light autonomous mission in 2027.
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JD.com Plans a Three-Million-Robot Logistics Network
JD.com has reiterated a five-year plan for millions of robots, autonomous vehicles and drones, backed by AI coordination and a much larger compute cluster.
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Arm Proposes Shared Capability Tiers for Physical AI and Robotics
Arm is assembling more than 80 partners around a physical-AI development program and a proposed vocabulary for comparing robotic capabilities.
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