AI Hardware & Devices
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Gemini Robotics 2 gives humanoids whole-body control, from feet to fingertips
Google DeepMind shipped Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, and the headline is simple: last year’s model only drove a robot’s upper body. This one runs the whole machine — walking, crouching, reaching, gripping — while it reasons through a multi-step task in real time. What it actually does It’s a vision-language-action model, not a… Continue reading
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FLUX 3 x mimic — video-action model for robots: Audi is already testing it on the line
The company that made FLUX the king of image generation just pointed the same architecture at robot arms. What it actually is FLUX 3 x mimic is a video-action model. Black Forest Labs took the FLUX 3 multimodal backbone and fused it with robotics startup mimic’s manipulation learning. The result is one model that watches… Continue reading
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text-to-cad by earthtojake hits 9.8k GitHub stars turning plain English into editable CAD
CAD is where generative AI usually falls apart — geometry needs precision, and a part that’s 95% right is a part that doesn’t fit. text-to-cad, an open-source project from earthtojake, is the first attempt in a while that hardware people are actually passing around. 9.8k stars, 600+ in a single day, trending on GitHub. What… Continue reading
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Anthropic × Physical Intelligence acquisition rumor: the CEO denied it, The Information confirmed the talks
Robert Scoble posted it on X. AI Twitter argued about it all weekend. Physical Intelligence CEO Karol Hausman shut it down in Slack with an Office gif of someone shaking her head no. Then The Information reported the two companies did hold acquisition talks — this spring. What Physical Intelligence actually builds Not robots. Robot… Continue reading
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Samsung Galaxy Glasses ships without a screen, and 800 million devices is the reason why
Samsung showed up to the smart glasses fight. At Galaxy Unpacked in London on July 22 — alongside the Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra, Watch Ultra 2 and Watch 9 — it announced Galaxy Glasses, its first AI wearable, aimed straight at Meta’s Ray-Bans. No display, and that’s on purpose The hardware is… Continue reading
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OpenAI Codex Micro: a $230 keypad for directing agents, not typing code
OpenAI shipped its first piece of hardware on July 15, and it’s not a phone or a pin. It’s a macro pad. Built with keyboard maker Work Louder on the existing Creator Micro 2 chassis, Codex Micro is a $230 desktop controller aimed at Codex’s roughly 5 million weekly users. What it actually is Thirteen… Continue reading
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Apple sues OpenAI: trade secret theft “at every level”
Two years ago they were partners — ChatGPT baked into iOS. On July 10, Apple sued OpenAI in federal court in Northern California, calling its hardware operation “rotten to its core.” Hacker News gave it 698 points and 340 comments. Hottest AI story of the week, easily. What Apple says happened The complaint centers on… Continue reading
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NanoKVM-Go puts AI agents outside the OS — where BIOS and lock screens live
Every computer-use agent has the same blind spot: it lives inside the operating system. It can’t touch a BIOS menu, a Windows lock screen, a frozen machine, or a fresh OS install. NanoKVM-Go is Sipeed’s fix, and it’s hardware, not software. A watch-sized KVM that acts as physical hands It’s a KVM dongle. One USB-C… Continue reading
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RuView (ruvnet) hit 78K GitHub stars by turning your WiFi router into a heartbeat sensor
RuView is an open-source model that reads the radio reflections bouncing off people in a room and turns them into pose, presence, and vital signs. No camera. No wearable. Just WiFi. A neural net learns the RF signature of a space, subtracts the walls and furniture, and reports who’s there, how they’re breathing (6–30 breaths/min),… Continue reading
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Riddle — reMarkable turned into Tom Riddle’s diary (maximerivest)
Write on the page with your pen. The ink slowly fades, as if the paper drank it. A second later, a reply writes itself back in flowing cursive, stroke by stroke. That’s Riddle — the enchanted diary from Chamber of Secrets, except the thing answering you is Claude. What it actually is Riddle isn’t a… Continue reading
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