AI & Autonomy

From Wildfire Detection to Fast Mapping: AIVE AI Systems Expands Access to Geospatial Data

The startup is developing tools that create georeferenced 2D maps from a small number of images, without requiring specialized infrastructure. INTERGEO brings together established geospatial companies and startups exploring new approaches to mapping. At the 2026 event in Munich, AIVE Systems demonstrated how artificial intelligence could simplify complex mapping tasks. The company’s software…

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Digit 5 May Be the First Humanoid Robot Worker That’s Truly Safe

Despite the recent deluge of videos of humanoid robots doing backflips and kung-fu, the actual pace of progress towards humanoids that can do economically viable jobs at scale has at times seemed a bit plodding. There are some good reasons for this: a humanoid robot needs to be powerful enough to do useful work, safe enough for humans to walk past, and have enough battery life to limit how much…

IEEE Spectrum

Autonomous Vehicles

The Drone Is No Longer the Point

At INTERGEO, attention has shifted from individual platforms to complete geospatial workflows. One of the clearest drone industry trends at INTERGEO 2026 is not a new aircraft or sensor. It is how fully drones have entered the wider geospatial workflow. In earlier years, drones occupied their own category and their own space on the show […]

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Autonomous Vehicles

Tesla’s record month: 4 fatal Autopilot and Full Self-Driving crashes

July 2026 was the worst month on record for Tesla driver-assist crashes. Tesla reported 236 of them to federal regulators, the most it has ever filed in a single month. Four of those crashes killed someone. In every one, Tesla’s own data says Autopilot or “Full Self-Driving” was engaged, and in every one, the public was never told the system was involved. This is the latest from our ongoing…

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From the ROS community discourse.ros.org · last 30 days

  1. A one-command installer for the apt-based ROS 2 path 25 likes on ROS Discourse. 5 replies
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Papers the field is reading arXiv · ranked by researcher upvotes

  1. PhysBrain 1.5: From Vision-Language Models to Physical Foundation Models 170 upvotes on Hugging Face papers. We present PhysBrain 1.5, a unified model for understanding physical environments, generating actions, and… 3 comments
  2. SpatialBlock: Enhancing Spatial Intelligence in LVLMs via Synthetic Block-Stacking Problem 140 upvotes on Hugging Face papers. Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved strong performance on diverse visual tasks, yet their… 3 comments
  3. The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement 84 upvotes on Hugging Face papers. Recursive self-improvement (RSI) enables AI systems to turn experience and feedback into persistent changes… 2 comments
  4. Breaking the Vision-Action Shortcut: Latent Interface Training for Generalizable Robotics Foundation Models 75 upvotes on Hugging Face papers. Robot foundation models achieve strong in-distribution performance but often degrade under visual… 2 comments
  5. Occamy-1.0: Open Pareto-frontier 35B Intelligence for Co-work 70 upvotes on Hugging Face papers. Co-work agents execute complex workflows that combine information gathering, tool use, coding, and file… 4 comments
  6. ReactHuman: A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Human-Like Reactive Decision-Making in Embodied Multimodal LLMs 43 upvotes on Hugging Face papers. Reacting to sudden physical hazards (catching a slipping plate, dodging a falling knife) is both a meaningful… 3 comments

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Digit

Category
Humanoid
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Introduced
2019
Manufacturer
Agility Robotics
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