LeRobot
UMA
+11
Jul 22, 2026
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5 min read
This Robot Learns Your Job by Watching You Do It
A Paris startup founded by a Tesla veteran says its lightweight humanoid, Northstar, can pick up new jobs by watching a person do them once, the long-sought shortcut that would let one robot learn many tasks without a coder, though for now it is only a prototype.
NVIDIA
+10
Jul 15, 2026
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5 min read
One Free Download Now Drives 20 Different Robots
Ant Group open-sourced LingBot-VLA 2.0, a free model its makers say drives 20 different robot bodies on a single gaming graphics card. A day later NVIDIA and Hugging Face answered. The race to become the Android of robots is on, and nobody is charging.