Morning Overview on MSN

Alibaba’s Qwen released three AI models built to drive robots

Alibaba’s Qwen team published three separate AI models designed to give robots the ability to see, manipulate objects, and ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Boston Dynamics is loading Google’s Gemini robotics model into its Spot dog

Google researchers have published a preprint defining a new model family called Gemini Robotics 1.5, designed to give robots ...
Geeky Gadgets

Figure AI HELIX : Vision-Language-Action Model Making Humanoid Robots Smarter

Figure AI has unveiled HELIX, a pioneering Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that integrates vision, language comprehension, and action execution into a single neural network. This innovation allows ...
Geeky Gadgets

Helix Vision-Language-Action Model : Enabling Humanoid Robot Learning

What if a robot could not only see and understand the world around it but also respond to your commands with the precision and adaptability of a human? Imagine instructing a humanoid robot to “set the ...
Tech Times

Embodied AI World Models Attracted $6 Billion, But the LLM Parallel May Not Hold

Embodied AI world models drew $6 billion in Q1 2026 alone, but new analysis from Fusion Fund investors argues the LLM scaling ...

ACE ROBOTICS' Kairos World Model Leads Multiple Global Embodied-Intelligence Benchmarks

SHANGHAI, CHINA / ACCESS Newswire / June 14, 2026 / ACE ROBOTICS today announced that its open-source Kairos world model has ...
SiliconANGLE

Hugging Face open-sources world’s smallest vision language model

Hugging Face Inc. today open-sourced SmolVLM-256M, a new vision language model with the lowest parameter count in its category. The algorithm’s small footprint allows it to run on devices such as ...
Nature

General-purpose foundation models for increased autonomy in robot-assisted surgery

It was on 11 April 1985 at the Long Beach Memorial Medical Center that the earliest robotic surgery was performed 1. This was the culmination of 3 years of work during which Dr Yik San Kwoh and ...
Forbes

Microsoft Extends Its Phi Models To Physical AI With Rho-Alpha

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Robots that can follow spoken instructions while adjusting their grip based on what they ...
VentureBeat

Cohere's first vision model Aya Vision is here with broad, multilingual understanding and open weights — but there's a catch

Canadian AI startup Cohere launched in 2019 specifically targeting the enterprise, but independent research has shown it has so far struggled to gain much of a market share among third-party ...