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Trends in AI for automation, predictive maintenance, and production.

Nvidia Veteran Bets Physical AI Will Be Bigger Than Robots

A former Nvidia robotics executive says physical AI is bigger than robots, and she’s backing startups building the full real-world stack.

Scimplify raises $25M to scale AI chemicals manufacturing and cut reliance on China across semiconductors, defense and energy.

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WIRED World Fair heads to Miami on Nov. 4 with AI, biotech, art, robots and talks from major names across tech and culture.

Besxar is testing an orbital chip factory on SpaceX rockets, aiming to make cleaner semiconductor materials in space and return them to Earth.

Anthropic unveiled an AI agents hardware standard to help labs and factories use robots and instruments more safely.

Perceptron has launched Isaac 0.5, an open-weight visual AI model aimed at robots, warehouses and factory-floor automation.

Situational Awareness pours $400M into a chip startup as the AI hedge fund cuts public holdings and doubles down on infrastructure.

Jensen Huang’s Japan visit advances Nvidia’s physical AI push with robotics deals, a sovereign AI project and a new chip factory plan.

AMI Labs CEO Alexandre LeBrun rejects AGI hype, betting on world models to power safer robotics and physical AI.