标签：#Robot

Gemini Robotics 2 includes three models, but only one is publicly available right now.

Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can "control entire humanoid robots." While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot's upper body, Gemini Robotics 2 now supports "whole-body motions" ranging from its feet to fingertips, according to an announcement on Thursday. The new model will allow humanoid robots […]

The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.

Federal safety regulators have given Zoox a temporary exemption that will allow the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle technology company to charge customers for rides in its custom-built robotaxi.

A German startup sent a camera-wearing chef to my apartment. In exchange for a free lunch, I let them record every chop and stir to train future humanoids.

Most lists that claim to help you block AI crawlers are copy-pasted and dangerously wrong about the two tokens that actually matter. Sorting them properly is not an abstract taxonomy exercise. It is the single decision that determines whether your content vanishes from AI answers while training continues — or vice versa. We maintain the crawler registry in lib/ai-crawlers.ts that powers techpotions’ free AI robots.txt generator . Every agent string and description was verified against the operator’s own crawler documentation. The registry holds 15 verified bots across four categories, and that four-way split is this article’s structure, because the categories map directly to what blocking costs you. Two tokens almost everyone gets wrong Before the list, the single most important correction to make, and almost every listicle on this query gets it wrong: Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended are not crawlers. They are robots.txt tokens — product controls that govern whether your content is used for Gemini and Apple foundation-model training. Blocking Google-Extended does not affect Google Search crawling, Google ranking, or regular Applebot search indexing. People block them believing they are opting out of AI Overviews, and are actually opting out of nothing they think they are, while leaving search indexing completely untouched. Platforms have started wiring these tokens into one-click controls. Cloudflare’s managed robots feature, released mid-2025, lets you add AI crawler rules through a dashboard toggle rather than editing a raw file — but the underlying token logic above still applies. Block AI crawlers: the four categories that decide the cost Every AI crawler we track belongs to one of four categories. The category tells you the cost of blocking it. Training crawlers scrape pages to feed a model that may never cite you. Blocking them is a defensive data decision. Assistant crawlers fetch pages to answer a live user’s question and can cite and link you. Blockin

When the Trump administration announced yesterday that it was banning "advanced robotic devices" from entering the United States, the headlines were all about humanoids. But spying doesn't require legs - and neither does the FCC's robot ban. The robot ban will sweep up robot vacuum cleaners too, FCC media relations director Katie Gorscak confirms to […]

Waymo robotaxis are now using freeways in Phoenix with more cities to follow in the coming days.

The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on "advanced robotic devices" and power inverters made in foreign countries, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission says the ban will include "mobile" robots, such as humanoid and quadruped models - but it is not limited […]

Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-California ) has proposed a bill that would direct federal regulators to establish minimum national safety standards for autonomous vehicle operators.

Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicles will be available on Freenow, the mobility network that Lyft acquired in 2025.

The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.

Forget YouTube videos—frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings.

The contract between the two companies ends in May 2028, Uber told TechCrunch.

US robotics researchers flew to Venezuela with snakebots after getting a call.

The number of paid robotaxi miles traveled fell 36% in the second quarter, despite expanding to new cities, according to Tesla's own figures.

With “blessings” from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted “AI journal” that turns your family moments into AI images and video.

Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.

Most teams already keep Playwright or Robot Framework specs next to the product. Manual cases often live somewhere else — a spreadsheet, a cloud TMS, or a wiki page nobody updates after the first release. That is why automation coverage is usually a quarterly guess: the catalog and the specs never share an id. Put both in the same Git repo , give every manual case a stable id, and linking becomes a text match. Any IDE agent can do that if the cases are files it can already see — no custom AI product inside a test tool. One repo, two layers of the same suite Manual cases are YAML files under .gitoza-lite/test/cases/ (VS Code / Cursor extension) or .gitoza/test/cases/ (Desktop app). The filename without .yaml is the case id . Automated tests live wherever your team already puts them — tests/ , e2e/ , robot/ — in the same repository. Traceability is a shared id: put that case id on the automation side as a tag (or name), and on the YAML side as automated: true plus a params pointer. A PR can change the case, the Playwright spec, and the link in one review. Step 1 — Draft manual cases in the IDE Open the repo in Cursor or VS Code. Point the agent at a few existing case files so it learns your title style, tags, and step length. Then feed it a user story, a ticket, or a screenshot. Ask for several cases at once, not one shallow step. A useful prompt looks like: Read .gitoza-lite/test/cases/shopflow/auth/ for format. From ticket SHOP-184, draft three YAML cases (happy path, invalid password, locked account). Filename = case id. Use tags auth and smoke where it fits. Save the files under the suite folder. Then open the Gitoza Lite Test Repository tab to browse, edit, and — when you are ready — run them as a manual suite with Pass / Fail / Skip. The extension does not ship its own model. It keeps cases as plain YAML so whatever assistant you already use can read and write them. A minimal case: --- title : Login with valid credentials priority : high tags : [ smoke , auth ]

Ukraine's battlefield surge of robots now features airdrops and beach assaults.