#AI robotics

Google is rolling out a broader set of travel features, including AI-built trip plans in Search, hotel-level price tracking and booking help through AI Mode and Maps.

SAP says its latest SuccessFactors release brings agentic AI into core human capital management workflows, with a focus on reducing administrative drag and lowering costs.

Construction manufacturer Dextall says it tripled production speed for high-rise facade components by standardizing inputs before deploying proprietary robotic welding systems.

OpenAI is positioning ChatGPT for Healthcare as a secure, HIPAA-compliant workspace for hospital providers, with an emphasis on cited answers, documentation, and clinical decision support tasks.

A new OpenAI Academy guide frames ChatGPT as a tool for turning questions into citation-backed research workflows, reflecting the company’s push to position AI as practical infrastructure for knowledge work.

The International Federation of Robotics says robot density increased across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, underscoring continued momentum in manufacturing automation.

The release of AGIBOT WORLD 2026 as an open-source dataset signals continuing pressure to build shared data foundations for embodied robot development.

Google is introducing two new Gemini API service tiers, one aimed at cheaper latency-tolerant jobs and another at higher-reliability interactive applications.

Amazon-owned Zoox says it is expanding its purpose-built robotaxi service to San Francisco, Las Vegas, Austin, and Miami, marking a broader national rollout.

Anthropic’s latest Economic Index suggests that experienced Claude users get measurably better results over time, a pattern that could make AI gains less evenly distributed.

Vention has launched Rapid Operator AI, a system targeting one of manufacturing automation's most persistent challenges — deep bin picking — with adaptive machine vision and force-feedback capabilities designed to handle the random, unstructured part presentations that have historically defeated simpler robotic approaches.

NVIDIA has added Cosmos Policy to its suite of world foundation models, creating a new robot control framework that builds on the Cosmos Predict-2 model. The system is designed to help robots learn complex manipulation tasks by understanding the physical dynamics of their environment.