RoboticsFigure's humanoid worked in 30 unfamiliar homes without a single day of training there and succeeded in 56 per cent of attemptsHelix 2.5 is pretrained on a vast dataset of human behaviour, and from one model it yields three skills: tidying a living room, folding towels and making a bed. Per Figure, pretraining raises success in an unfamiliar home from 9 to 56 per cent.RoboticsWaymo is coming to Singapore, but plans to carry riders only in 2028The first Jaguar I-PACE cars arrive in the coming months, 2027 is a readiness phase that starts with manual driving, and the commercial service is planned for 2028. Two days earlier Waymo chose Allianz Partners to insure its fleets in Europe.RoboticsAgility's new humanoid goes around, stops or sits down when it detects a personDigit 5 lifts up to 22.7 kg, works for 90 minutes and charges in 9. The news is elsewhere, though: a robot that, per the company, detects the people around it and decides on its own to go around them, stop or sit down, so it can work without fences.RoboticsWaymo is carrying its first public riders in Las Vegas and announced a plan for Tokyo in 2027From 14 September the driverless cars carry the public along the Strip, in an area of nearly 24 miles. The same day Waymo, Nihon Kotsu and GO announced a plan for a commercial service in Tokyo next year, if regulators grant approval.RoboticsFigure signed a deal for up to 100,000 Vera Rubin chips to train its humanoid model HelixOn 3 September Figure and Nscale announced a partnership for NVIDIA Vera Rubin with up to 100,000 GPUs, with initial deployment targeted from the second half of 2027 in Barstow, Texas. The initial commitment is $3.5 billion of compute, with intent to exceed $6 billion. Nscale also comes in as an investor in Figure.RoboticsWaymo picked up its first riders in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, and now drives in 14 citiesOn 1 September Waymo began carrying its first public riders in three more US cities, bringing the number of cities with fully autonomous rides to 14. According to the company, tens of thousands have signed up in each. Access opens gradually, not all at once.RoboticsA horned centaur robot built so it cannot fit through a human doorCalifornia's Satyress showed Threehalves: a two-metre teleoperated robot with four legs and tools instead of hands, for work that kills people. Its safety is not in the software but in the geometry.RoboticsGemini Robotics ER 2 watches video, coordinates robots, and stops when it sees a personGoogle's new model tracks its own work through video and corrects itself on the fly. It's available through the API right now. But the numbers also show how far it is from the shop floor.
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