Canadian roboticists have created a #drone# that can land on icebergs sloped nearly 60 degrees, with wind speeds of up to 30 km/h. Landing on icebergs lets drones monitor them for months, producing more detailed observations than a flyby overhead.

All roboticists - in case you are building VLAs, please stop what you are doing, take a break, get a coffee, and read the LeWorldModel paper by @lucasmaes_, @randall_balestr, @ylecun and collaborators: And then read it several more times - the same general approach can be directly mapped to other key problems in robotics, including dealing with multimodal inputs such as vision and speech

The NASA TechLeap Prize: Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge is open! 🦾🤖 NASA Flight Opportunities seeks proposals for a payload that can be manipulated by a robotic arm in low Earth orbit. Phase 1 registration closes on July 29! Learn more:

YOOO! I asked my Chief of Staff Grok Bot to perform a task - which it did perfectly. I said “Thank you” and expected it to robotically reply with “You’re welcome.” It didn’t…it actually added a heart emoji to my comment. Subtly sentient.

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Live from @NVIDIAGTC 🤖 Day 1 packed with talks on physical AI from prototype to production. Why talk about it when you can actually build it? Get ready for tomorrow’s hands-on lab: production-grade robotic AI, live, with GRID + NVIDIA. Add to your calender 👉🏻 #NVIDIAGTC# #PhysicalAI# #GTC2026#

We're back at @NVIDIAGTC 2026! 4 sessions. Physical AI. GRID. Fastest path to useful robots! - @saihv leading a hands-on training lab on scaling robotic AI from prototype to production ( - Dinesh Narayanan on a theatre session on Physical AI and autonomous operations with @Accenture's Christian Souche and @Microsoft Azure's Felice Miller at the Microsoft booth on deploying agentic AI in real-world robotics. - We will also showcase the fastest path to useful robots with #GRID# at Microsoft Demo Kiosk! Will we see you there? #NVIDIAGTC# #Accenture# #MicrosoftAzure#

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"Hey Alexa... uh, I mean Atlas, hand me the drill." Boston Dynamics has a new CEO: Rohit Prasad, the man who built Alexa. And it's a notable break from BD's past. BD's first two CEOs were hardcore roboticists who helped pioneer the field. Founder Marc Raibert built the legendary MIT Leg Lab and basically invented modern legged locomotion. Robert Playter spent decades deep in the dynamics and control behind Atlas. Robotics people, through and through. Prasad is an AI leader, not a roboticist. At Amazon he was SVP and Head Scientist for Alexa and AGI, and led the Nova foundation models. Before that, 14 years of ML research at Raytheon BBN. He's only BD's 3rd CEO ever. The mandate: push their "Physical AI" bet, fusing AI with the robots for industrial deployment, backed by owner Hyundai. For 30+ years BD led on mechanics and classical control. Now it's betting the next era is won on AI. Big shift.