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🤝 ACQUISITION
🤖 HUMANOID
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Meta Acquires Robotics AI Company to Help Build Humanoid Technology
Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup focused on developing artificial intelligence models for robots. This strategic acquisition is a key part of Meta's major initiative to build advanced humanoid technology, directly investing in the core AI capabilities essential for future robotic systems.
→ This acquisition signals Meta's serious commitment to the humanoid robotics sector, potentially accelerating the development timeline for advanced AI-driven humanoids and intensifying competition among major tech players in this emerging field.
Meta Platforms Inc. acquired Assured Robot Intelligence.Assured Robot Intelligence specializes in artificial intelligence models for robots.The acquisition is part of Meta's major initiative to build humanoid technology.
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🎯 MILESTONE
🤖 HUMANOID
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📈 TREND CONFIRMED
Video Friday: Figure, 1X Ramp Up Humanoid Robot Production
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2026 : 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA RSS 2026 : 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Actuate 2026 : 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO Enjoy today’s videos! Figure is now able to produce 55 robots per week, which will be “allocated to internal research and development groups, data collection, efforts fo
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🏭 DEPLOYMENT
🚀 SPACE
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AI Processing of Earth Images Can Now Run In Space
AI image processing onboard satellites in space has been a goal of the Earth observation industry for years. Now, it has finally been achieved. California-based Planet Labs released an image captured by its Pelican-4 multi-spectral satellite showing an airport in Alice Springs, Australia. On the tarmac, more than a dozen aircraft are scattered, each highlighted in a neat green box, identified by an AI model running on board the satellite. Planet Labs’ engineers had worked 18 months to accomplish reliable autonomous object classification from space. They hope the technology will put Earth obser
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🏭 DEPLOYMENT
🛸 DRONE
$100M ● NEW
💹 MARKET MOVE
The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100M for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines in the Strait of Hormuz (Mike Stone/Reuters)
The US Navy has awarded Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100 million for AI software designed to train underwater drones. This software will enable the drones to identify new mines, specifically targeting Iranian mines in the strategically critical Strait of Hormuz, as part of the Navy's expanded AI capabilities.
→ This substantial defense contract underscores the increasing strategic importance and market demand for advanced AI software integrated with autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for critical security and defense applications.
The US Navy awarded Domino Data Lab a contract valued at up to $100M USD.The contract is for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines.The deployment targets the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping lane.
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🏭 DEPLOYMENT
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📈 TREND CONFIRMED
Japan Airlines begins humanoid robot trials at Tokyo's Haneda airport as labor shortages bite
Tokyo's Haneda Airport is beginning a trial of humanoid robots in airport ground services amid chronic labor challenges and a rapidly ageing workforce.