Machine Learning News The Machine Learning category at The Robotics Media covers news on ML research and deployment in robotics and AI, including reinforcement learning, computer vision, foundation models, and sim-to-real training methods. Readers find reporting on new model releases, benchmark results, lab research from academia and industry, and how companies apply ML to manipulation, navigation, and perception. Coverage spans funding, product launches, open-source tools, and datasets shaping robot learning.
Microsoft Rebuilds Copilot Around Persistent Agents With Home, Code And Autopilot — Sep 27, 2026 — Microsoft is rebuilding Copilot around three persistent agent experiences — Home, Code and Autopilot — backed by a new Copilot Managed Runtime, a Copi...Q-CTRL clocks 12x speedup on IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2 with Fire Opal — Sep 27, 2026 — Q-CTRL's Fire Opal stack cut a 60-qubit fermionic simulation from 4 min 25 s on IBM Heron R3 to 23 s on Nighthawk R2 — a 12x speedup and more than 400...Perceptron Ships Mk1.5, An Egocentric Physical-AI Model At 25x Lower Cost — Sep 26, 2026 — Perceptron's Mk1.5 multimodal reasoning model lands on OpenRouter and AWS Marketplace at $0.15/$1.50 per million tokens, targeting drones, quadrupeds...General Robotics Bets On Modular Intelligence, Not One Robot Brain — Sep 26, 2026 — CTO Sai Vemprala says its GRID platform composes specialized skills across robot bodies instead of chasing a single foundation model.Skild AI's S1 Robot Brain Taught Itself Football In 140 Simulated Years — Sep 25, 2026 — Skild AI trained its S1 robotics foundation model to play four-a-side football through 140 simulated years of self-play in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, then tran...MIT's Self-Recovering Robot Optics Lab Aligns A Laser Cavity In 30 Minutes — Sep 25, 2026 — An MIT team's seven-joint robot rebuilds and stabilizes a laser cavity in 50 autonomous maneuvers, cutting a job that usually takes graduate students...Xiaomi open-sources MiMo-V2.6 omnimodal AI atop open-weights leaderboard — Sep 24, 2026 — Xiaomi released the MiMo-V2.6 family of open-weight omnimodal models led by Pro, Flash and Pro-UltraSpeed, topping the Artificial Analysis open-weight...NVIDIA Ships Isaac ROS 5.0 With Agentic Workflows And 5.5x Faster Pose Tracking — Sep 24, 2026 — NVIDIA's Isaac ROS 5.0 adds AI-agent development skills, ROS 2 Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04 support, and a FoundationPose library that estimates object po...NVIDIA Open-Sources Nemotron 3 Diarization, Sets New VoiceArena Speaker-ID Record — Sep 24, 2026 — NVIDIA's ~100M-parameter open-weight diarization model beats the previous state of the art by 24% on VoiceArena.OpenAI Cuts GPT-6 Prices In Half With Sol And Luna Models — Sep 24, 2026 — OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half the price of GPT-5.6, targeting professional coding, agentic work and high-volume clerical tasks.Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 With 30B-Parameter On-Device AI — Sep 23, 2026 — At Snapdragon Summit 2026, Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and a higher-binned Extreme variant, both on a 2nm node and tuned for on-dev...DataCebo Launches SDV 2.0 To Generate Enterprise Databases On Demand — Sep 20, 2026 — MIT spinoff DataCebo launches SDV 2.0, a generative relational model platform that lets enterprises build synthetic copies of Oracle, SQL Server, BigQ...Meta's Muse AI Agent Comes To The Mac, Takes Over The Desktop — Sep 19, 2026 — Meta released a native Mac app for its Muse personal AI agent on September 18, 2026, letting the agent read files, mail, calendar and notes and act in...OLogic's Ted Larson To Detail Egocentric Robot Learning At RoboBusiness 2026 — Sep 19, 2026 — Sunnyvale robotics design studio OLogic will use RoboBusiness 2026 to argue that egocentric video from wearables, plus teleoperation, is the fastest p...Mantic Raises $25M Seed To Scale Superhuman AI Forecasting — Sep 19, 2026 — London-based Mantic banks a $25M seed led by Radical Ventures with M12, Balderton and Thinking Machines Lab to scale a judgmental forecasting AI that...DoE Launches $215M Quantum Genesis Q Competition Aiming at Fault-Tolerant Machine by 2028 — Sep 18, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Energy launched the Quantum Genesis Q Competition on September 17, 2026 — a $215M program funding up to 10 teams to deliver a f...Reward AI Exits Stealth With OM-1, A Human-Data-Only Robot Foundation Model — Sep 16, 2026 — Stanford spin-out Reward AI has broken cover with OM-1, a robot manipulation policy trained entirely on human wearable data — no teleoperation, no on-...Shanghai AI Lab Drops 744B Atria Dawn Preview As An Open-Source Agent — Sep 16, 2026 — Shanghai AI Laboratory has quietly shipped Atria Dawn Preview, a 744-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts agentic model built on GLM-5.2, under an MIT...TypeSafe AI Exits Stealth With $40M Seed To Build Composable AI For Software — Sep 16, 2026 — TypeSafe AI came out of stealth on September 15, 2026 with a $40 million DCVC-led seed round to ship Jev, a machine-native model designed to plug into...Yoom Bags ¥700M Series A To Build AI Coworkers For Japanese Enterprises — Sep 16, 2026 — Tokyo-based Yoom has raised its first external ¥700 million round led by DUAL BRIDGE CAPITAL to scale a no-code platform that pairs AI agents with det...