AI perception News Latest AI perception news and analysis — 22 articles tagged AI perception on The Robotics Media.
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...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-...Lyte Bags $165M Series C At $1.6B Valuation To Give Robots Trustworthy Eyes — Sep 2, 2026 — Lyte, the physical-AI perception startup founded by former Apple Face ID and PrimeSense engineers, raised $165 million led by Maverick Silicon at a $1...Generalist AI Unveils GEN-1.5, A Robot Foundation Model That Learns From One Demo — Aug 23, 2026 — Generalist AI released GEN-1.5, an embodied foundation model that can learn new physical tasks from 3 to 12 seconds of demonstration data in-context,...Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Surface in Leak as Ambient AI Hardware — Aug 18, 2026 — Code found in a macOS release candidate references an unreleased Apple wearable codenamed B790 that appears to give AirPods cameras for Siri and Apple...Pony.ai Lines Up 4,000+ Robotaxis for Overseas Deployment — Aug 18, 2026 — Chinese autonomous-driving developer Pony.ai says its planned and potential robotaxi deployments outside China now exceed 4,000 vehicles, signaling a...Robbyant Ships LingBot-Depth 2.0 And Boundary-Centric LingBot-Vision For Robots — Jul 7, 2026 — Ant Group's embodied AI unit Robbyant unveiled LingBot-Depth 2.0 and LingBot-Vision, halving depth error on transparent and reflective scenes and roll...Tesla Launches Driverless Robotaxi Rides in Miami, First Beyond Texas — Jul 5, 2026 — Tesla started unsupervised Robotaxi service in Miami on July 3, its first driverless ride-hailing market outside Texas and California, using Model Y v...MicroVision Ships MOVIA Lidar to AI Hyperscaler for Robotics Trials — Jul 5, 2026 — MicroVision has delivered its MOVIA S digital lidar sensors to an unnamed AI hyperscaler for evaluation across robotics and physical-AI systems, anoth...Ouster Prices $200M Public Offering to Fund Physical AI Push — Jul 5, 2026 — Digital-lidar maker Ouster priced a $200M public offering at $55.22 per share on July 2 as robotics demand for Physical AI perception overtakes automo...Flexion Ships Reflect v1.0 to Give Humanoids Long-Horizon Autonomy — Jul 5, 2026 — Swiss startup Flexion Robotics unveiled Reflect v1.0, a humanoid autonomy stack that pushed 16-step mission completion from 38% to 90% using reinforce...Luxonis Raises $14M Series A to Scale OAK Cameras for Physical AI — Jul 3, 2026 — Denver-based Luxonis closed a $14 million Series A led by Denali Growth Partners to scale production of its OAK 4 spatial AI cameras and expand the pe...Robust.AI picks Aptiv PULSE sensor for Gen 3 Carter robot — Jul 2, 2026 — Robust.AI will use Aptiv's PULSE camera-and-radar perception on its Gen 3 Carter mobile robot, with Aptiv pursuing PL(d) functional-safety certificati...MicroVision and Avular Partner on Lidar-Equipped Autonomous Drones — Jun 30, 2026 — MicroVision and Dutch drone maker Avular signed an MoU to fuse solid-state lidar and perception software with Avular's modular aerial platforms for GP...SE3 Labs Exits Stealth With Bundeswehr Drone-Swarm Spatial AI — Jun 27, 2026 — Munich's SE3 Labs emerged from stealth with GPS-denied spatial AI that lets one operator command mixed drone and ground-robot swarms, and with active...Orbbec Brings AI-Powered 3D Vision to Automate 2026 — Jun 27, 2026 — Orbbec showcased industrial-grade 3D cameras and edge-AI depth perception at Automate 2026, partnering with Ant Group's Robbyant to sharpen robot mani...Daimon Robotics, Galbot launch RobOmni tactile benchmark — Jun 25, 2026 — Daimon Robotics and Galbot unveiled RobOmni at ICRA 2026, the first omni-modal benchmark to include tactile sensing for physical interaction.RealSense unveils AI-native D585 Pro depth camera for robots — Jun 22, 2026 — The Intel spinout's new D585 Pro packs a Gen 5 system-on-chip and delivers more than twice the depth quality of the previous RealSense generation for...Indie Semiconductor Unveils iND881 Edge AI SoC For Automotive And Humanoid Cameras — Jun 13, 2026 — Indie Semiconductor has launched the iND881 edge AI system-on-chip, fusing an NPU, DSP and quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 with a low-latency multi-camera IS...Fort Robotics Acquires Mapless AI for Supervised Autonomy — May 29, 2026 — Fort Robotics has acquired Boston- and Pittsburgh-based Mapless AI, adding remote human-in-the-loop teleoperation and onboard active safety to its phy...