Integral AI AGI Breakthrough with 'World Model'
Tokyo startup claims first AGI-capable model. We dissect the hype, the tech, and implications.

Google DeepMind's newest robots, powered by Gemini, show off impressive dexterity by packing a lunchbox and …





China grants world's first commercial licences for autonomous passenger drones, heralding the dawn of air taxi services.

Tesla's Optimus Gen 3 boasts new hands with 22 degrees of freedom. Elon Musk's lofty aim? Transforming factory bots into galaxy-exploring Von Neumann probes.

Humanoid AI, a UK firm, unveils its 1.79m tall HMND 01 Alpha robot with a 15kg payload.

Chinese startup Zerith Robotics deploys H1 wheeled humanoid robots for cleaning and sales tasks in over 20 locations.

RobotEra's Star-Act L7 humanoid, driven by a VLA model, is set to resolve the 'Flexible Picking Gap' in logistics.

AgiBOT's A2 humanoid robot has walked 106km non-stop for 3 days, setting a new Guinness World Record and testing its endurance for commercial use.

OpenMind's new BrainPack, powered by NVIDIA Jetson Thor, is a modular AI brain designed to give any robot advanced autonomy and break vendor lock-in.

Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is set for a February 2026 debut in the Netherlands, paving the way for a wider European rollout.

Uber Eats is teaming up with Starship Robots to bring autonomous food delivery to the UK, starting in Leeds.

Unitree's H2 humanoid starts at a tempting $29,900, but exclusive details reveal the base model has significant limitations.

Germany's Agile Robots unveils Agile ONE, a 174cm humanoid with a 20kg payload, designed as a trusted co-worker for industrial automation.

Startup OpenDroids challenges the heavily funded 1x Neo to a dishwasher-loading speed test, sparking a new, highly domestic robotics rivalry.

REVEL and NVIDIA are hosting the world's largest Physical AI hackathon with over $100K in prizes, including GPUs, dev kits, and a full humanoid robot.

Tesla unveils new FSD safety data, claiming a significant reduction in collisions with their supervised system.

After 25 years, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin successfully lands its New Glenn rocket booster.
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