Embodied AI

Samsung disclosed three AI efforts—Meki, M2RL, and LiveClawBench—covering a memory-based edge architecture, multi-domain reinforcement learning, and Physical AI evaluation; the article also says Samsung has purchased tens of thousands of GPUs for AI infrastructure, but does not provide model size, training budget, or deployment timelines.

Reachy Mini implements local voice interaction through the speech-to-speech library, using a cascaded pipeline with a Realtime API-compatible WebSocket interface and default components including Silero VAD, Parakeet-TDT, and Qwen3-TTS.

Yi-Ling Liu compares U.S. and Chinese AI anxiety through labor, companionship, and agency: over 70% of U.S. teenagers report using chatbots as companions, while China is projected to reach 200 million single-person households by 2030.

Manycore Tech open-sourced Aholo Viewer, a browser-based 3D Gaussian Splatting viewer that used half the memory of Spark 2.0 in a 300M-Gaussian test, loaded 2x faster, rendered 3x faster, and supports scenes with up to 1B Gaussian points.

China’s NDRC said humanoid robot race teams increased from more than 20 to over 100, with finishers rising from 6 to more than 40, and it will build embodied AI training infrastructure and pilot application bases for factories, malls, and homes.

Westlake University and collaborators introduced HiF-VLA, a motion-centric VLA framework that extracts compact Motion vectors with codecs such as H.264 and uses a joint expert to predict future visual motion and generate action sequences, reporting 31.4GB peak memory and 117.7ms latency under the cited history-window setting.

Waymo temporarily halted robotaxi service in five cities because its vehicles may attempt to drive on flooded roads; the RSS snippet says the same issue recently triggered a recall of thousands of vehicles, but the post does not disclose the city list or restart timing.

NVIDIA won four COMPUTEX 2026 Best Choice Awards for Vera Rubin NVL72, Jetson Thor, and Alpamayo; Vera Rubin NVL72 connects 36 Vera CPUs and 72 Rubin GPUs, and NVIDIA says it delivers up to 10x higher inference performance per watt and 10x lower cost per token.

The title says FSD has launched in mainland China, while the post only states an official entry into the mainland and does not disclose eligible cities, vehicle models, pricing, or regulatory conditions.

Moore Threads presented progress on its MUSA GPU ecosystem, with SDK 5.1.0 targeting CUDA 12.8 and supporting 761 driver and runtime APIs. The post says MUSA has entered SGLang’s mainline, is listed for 2026 Q2 hardware support, and supports automated library migration via MUSACODE.

UISEE listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at HK$60.30 per share, with its public offering oversubscribed 6,777.29 times and a 90.5% share of the Greater China airport L4 commercial vehicle market in 2025.

Chinese courts have publicly backed workers in AI-replacement dismissal cases for a third time; in the Hangzhou case, an employee’s monthly salary was cut from 25,000 yuan to 15,000 yuan before dismissal, and the court found the employer failed to provide a reasonable placement and had illegally terminated the worker.

Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie for interactive street-level simulations in robotics, gaming, and travel; the post does not disclose model parameters, launch timing, or evaluation results.

The title says Hyundai Motor Group plans to deploy 25,000 Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robots; the post does not disclose the rollout schedule, deployment sites, or purchasing terms.

Horizon Robotics Lab open-sourced HoloMotion-1, a 400M-parameter full-body humanoid control model that uses MoE sparse activation and KV-cache inference to reach about 300 FPS on-device, with code and a technical report released.

Moore Threads released MT Lambda, an embodied AI simulation platform that combines physics, rendering, and AI engines, and demonstrated the robot dog “Xiaofei” executing a Sim-to-Real policy trained 100% in simulation on domestic hardware.

NVIDIA published a Hugging Face post on fine-tuning Cosmos Predict 2.5 with LoRA and DoRA to generate robot first-person videos from text prompts; the post does not disclose dataset size, training cost, or evaluation results.

Baidu reported that its core AI-driven business generated more than RMB 13.6 billion in Q1 2026, up 49% year over year, and accounted for more than half of Baidu’s general business revenue for the first time.

Latent Space interviewed The Fourth Law founder Yaroslav Azhnyuk for a two-hour episode covering FPV drones, five levels of autonomy, eight dimensions of the autonomous battlefield, and China’s manufacturing advantage; the transcript claims Ukraine produced 4 million FPV drones last year and discusses a hypothetical Chinese capacity of 4 billion.

Weilan Technology unveiled BabyAlpha A3, a consumer quadruped robot using a six-chip heterogeneous cluster that runs a 7B-parameter model on-device at 280 TPS; the article says it has 66MP vision, 2.232 million point-cloud samples per second, and a planned Q3 launch.