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Robots, embodied AI, and automation hardware.
NVIDIA's Bolt E4B squeezes a talkative, tool-calling agent into a small local memory budget, a real win for on-device AI, with benchmarks that are NVIDIA's own and a name that oversells.
A flock of waddling open-source robots stole a keynote and racked up preorders overnight, and the real story is home robotics arriving as a toy first.
Nvidia's Microduck walkthrough shows agents taking a robot from a written prompt to a trained walking policy, and the tidy pipeline makes it easy to forget how much still has to be checked by people.
inDrive wants robotaxis in Astana by 2027, and the real test isn't the tech demo — it's whether driverless rides can win in markets where human drivers are already cheap.
European retail is quietly proving the business case for small, post-trained open models, and the Shopify numbers are the ones every merchant platform will be quoting.
Nvidia's answer to Europe's slow infrastructure is a data center in a box, and Berlin got a pitch where Nvidia sits under every industry it named.
Nvidia keeps widening its open-model lineup, from business forecasting to protein design to quantum calibration. The strategy is generous on weights and very clear about whose hardware runs them.
Jensen Huang's Berlin keynote sold Europe a full AI factory, from containerized data centers to sandboxed agents, and the loudest line was that agent security is an engineering job.
Meta deleted one word from its business terms and left the door wide open. Publishers want a promise to honor robots.txt, and Meta still won't put it in writing.
A physical AI investor says robotics is still in the building-blocks phase, not its ChatGPT moment. We think that is the honest read, and a useful corrective to the hype.
Eka is betting that robots learn to grip by feeling force rather than watching video — and seasoned roboticists say the demo is the most convincing they've seen in years.
Kyutai's REKI shows a small robot model trained only on public data can remember what it just saw for almost no extra cost, and that memory stops arms from dithering.