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Every Silicon AI News story about Robotics, month by month, newest first.
It tops NVIDIA’s RoboLab-120 simulation leaderboard.
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, a 7-billion-parameter model that turns camera images and text instructions into robot movements. It leads NVIDIA’s RoboLab-120 leaderboard with 42.9%. The weights are free for non-commercial use, and most speed and real-robot figures come from the company.
The AI models and cloud tools stay paid.
Intrinsic published Intrinsic Core on GitHub on September 22, at the ROSCon conference in Toronto. The free toolkit covers real-time control, finding parts with cameras, motion and grasp planning, and simulation for robot arms. Its Flowstate tool, advanced AI models, and cloud services remain paid.
They are not a humanoid army.
Toyota estimates that modernising factories could cost about ¥1 trillion, or $6.4 billion, a year from 2028 across its group and suppliers. The 400,000 robots in the reports include many existing machines that will be replaced.
The test is whether research reaches real factories.
The EIT programme plans to support founders, fund scale-ups, and connect robotics teams with industry through 2028. Its targets are useful, but they are goals rather than delivered products.
A label must lead to a fair test.
Arm has proposed six levels for describing robot abilities and brought more than 80 companies into its physical AI programme. The framework is a starting point, not an independent safety standard.
Now it must prove it is safe.
Tesla started a small Cybercab service in Austin. The cars have no pedals or steering wheel, so passengers cannot take control during a problem.
Some Uber users in London can now get a Wayve self-driving car. A trained driver stays inside and can take control if needed.
New robot models are moving from clean labs into busy places such as warehouses and kitchens. They are getting better at noticing problems and trying again.