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Sanctuary AI Phoenix (Zero-Shot Dexterous Hands): 10 Cube Rotations, Zero Real-World Training
Train a robot hand entirely in simulation. Deploy on real hardware. Watch it rotate a lettered cube 10 times straight without dropping it. No fine-tuning. That’s Sanctuary AI’s Phoenix — the first humanoid to nail zero-shot sim-to-real on a five-fingered hydraulic hand. The Hardware Phoenix: 170 cm, 70 kg humanoid. The hands are the story… Continue reading
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Tennibot Partner V2: A 35-Pound AI Tennis Robot That Coaches From the Baseline
A tennis ball machine that thinks. Tennibot just started shipping the Partner V2 — a 35-pound AI-powered robot that designs drills on its own, fires balls with adjustable spin and placement, and takes commands from your Apple Watch. What It Actually Does The Partner V2 is a compact ball-launching robot (17.7 × 21.75 × 19.2… Continue reading
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Figure 03 (Helix 02) Runs 67 Hours Autonomous with One Error — 2026 Production Already Sold Out
67 consecutive hours of autonomous kitchen work. One error. No human intervention. That’s Figure AI’s latest demo with Figure 03, and it’s the number that separates this humanoid robot from everything else on the market. The Hardware 5’8″, 61 kg. Eight cameras, custom tactile sensors detecting forces down to 3 grams, and a 2.3 kWh… Continue reading
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Amazon Bee: The $50 Wearable That Records Your Day and Fires Off Emails for You
Amazon showed Bee at CES 2026 — a $49.99 screen-free AI wearable. Clip-on pin or wristband. One button, one green LED. Records conversations in real-time, transcribes everything, then deletes raw audio. No storage, no cloud uploads. Four Features in 90 Days The 8-person SF team shipped fast post-acquisition. Voice Notes captures spoken thoughts on tap.… Continue reading
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100 TOPS, 120 Grams: DJI Matrice 4 + Manifold 3 Opens the Enterprise Drone Onboard AI Challenge 2026
DJI just turned its enterprise drones into an open AI dev platform. The Enterprise Drone Onboard AI Challenge 2026, announced April 2, invites developers worldwide to build and deploy custom AI models that run directly on the drone — not in the cloud. The hardware combo: the Matrice 4 series enterprise drone plus the Manifold… Continue reading
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AGIBOT G2 + GO-2 Foundation Model: 2,070 TFLOPS of On-Board AI in a Wheeled Humanoid
AGIBOT dropped GO-2 on April 9 — a next-gen embodied AI foundation model that claims to solve what the company calls the “last mile” between reasoning and physical execution. The predecessor GO-1 could see and plan, but stumbled on consistent execution. GO-2 unifies both into a single architecture: Action Chain-of-Thought for spatial reasoning, plus an… Continue reading
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Meta Ray-Ban Blayzer & Scriber Optics: 7 Million Units Sold, Now Chasing the Other 2 Billion
Meta already moved 7 million smart glasses and owns 73% of the market. The gap? None of those frames were designed for prescription wearers. With 2 billion people worldwide needing corrective lenses, Blayzer and Scriber Optics are Meta’s play to turn AI glasses from a niche gadget into everyday eyewear. The Hardware Two new AI… Continue reading
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Anvil Robotics OpenARM: The $5,000 Dual-Arm Robot Kit Already Shipping to NVIDIA
Physical AI teams burn 3–6 months and up to $150K just setting up hardware before training begins. Anvil Robotics wants to kill that bottleneck. The company raised $6.5M (led by Matter Venture Partners) and has shipped 100+ OpenARM units to NVIDIA, Path Robotics, Intrinsic AI (Google), and startups across the US and Southeast Asia. What… Continue reading
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Brilliant Labs Halo: The Only Fully Open-Source AI Smart Glasses — $349, 40g, All Processing On-Device
Every big tech company is shipping AI glasses right now. Meta, Google, Snap — all closed ecosystems where your camera feed goes straight to their cloud. Brilliant Labs took the opposite bet. Halo is fully open-source AI smart glasses — hardware design files, firmware, SDK, everything on GitHub — and with the new Alif Semiconductor… Continue reading
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VLAI Robotics L1: A $4,188 Wheeled Humanoid That Actually Does Housework
A Shenzhen startup just made humanoid robots affordable. VLAI Robotics’ L1 is a wheeled humanoid starting at RMB 28,800 (~$4,188) — roughly a tenth of what most humanoid robots cost. Twitter robotics accounts blew up over it this week, and the price tag is the obvious reason. The Hardware No legs. The L1 uses a… Continue reading
