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Bolt setzt für Robotaxis auf Nvidia-Technik
Bolt hat eine Partnerschaft mit Nvidia angekündigt. Dessen Plattform für autonomes Fahren soll den Einsatz von Robotaxis in Europa beschleunigen.
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Nvidia announces BYD, Geely, Isuzu, and Nissan will use its Drive Hyperion AV platform and says Uber will launch Hyperion-powered robotaxis in 28 cities by 2028 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/895301/nvidia-robotaxi-byd-geely-hyp…

Nvidia says China’s BYD and Geely will use its robotaxi platform
Nvidia says it’s adding BYD and Geely to its robotaxi program, as well as Uber and Lyft. The chipmaker is stepping up its automotive business as robotaxis expand.

“[Niantic Spatial]’s latest product is a model that it says can pinpoint your location on a map to within a few centimeters, based on a handful of snapshots of the buildings or other landmarks in view. The firm wants to use it to help robots navigate with greater precision in places where GPS is unreliable.”

How Pokémon Go is helping robots deliver pizza on time
Niantic's AI spinout is using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players to train a new world model.

Gecko Robotics secures a $71M US Navy contract to use robots to slash repair time for dated ships, as the US races to reindustrialize its aging defense systems (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/gecko-robotics-navy-contract-ship-repair-t…

Gecko Robotics brings its AI to U.S. Navy ship repair in latest next-gen defense tech deal
CEO Jake Loosararian said Gecko is supporting the Navy's push to have 80% fleet readiness by 2027.

Adding even more cameras for a surveillance state: 'autonomous' delivery robots, and 'autonomous' taxis.
Can be combined with facial recognition, of course.
https://www.404media.co/serve-food-delivery-robot…

Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show
Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant sight in the city, can be used for surveillance.

RoboForce, which is developing robotics systems to perform physically demanding industrial work, raised $52M led by YZi Labs, bringing its total funding to $67M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/16/roboforce-rai…

RoboForce raises $52M to develop physical AI robots for industrial labor - SiliconANGLE
RoboForce raises $52M to develop physical AI robots for industrial labor - SiliconANGLE

Uber testet Lucid-Robotaxis in San Francisco
Anfang des Jahres stellten Lucid Motors, Nuro und Uber eine Robotaxi-Version des Lucid Gravity vor. Jetzt testen Uber-Beschäftigte das Fahrzeug.
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Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an "early sign" of generalization, surprising researchers (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/202…

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught | TechCrunch
The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.

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Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-er-1-6/

Gemini Robotics ER 1.6: Enhanced Embodied Reasoning
Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 upgrades spatial reasoning and multi-view understanding, unlocking new capabilities like instrument reading for autonomous robots.