Anthropic study finds AI and robots capable of tasks covering 81% of U.S. employment
Polymarket reported that an Anthropic study found AI and robotics together are already capable of handling tasks that span 81% of U.S. employment.
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View all AI newsDanaher plans autonomous AI research lab for molecule design and testing
The facility will combine robotics and artificial intelligence to design, build, and test new molecules with minimal human intervention.
Sakana AI introduces SAIL for test-time scaled robot trajectories
Sakana AI and the University of Tokyo will present SAIL at IROS 2026. On six simulated manipulation tasks, raising the search budget from one candidate to 45 lifted the average rate of finding a successful trajectory from 25% to 73%.
Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Action, an open-weights 7B model
Weights, code, a fine-tuning recipe, benchmarks, and reproducible examples are being released. Black Forest Labs says the world action model ranks first on RoboLab, 6.1 percentage points ahead of the previous best open model, with 56% fewer parameters and up to 3.95 times faster running speed.
Microsoft Research findings show moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success
The findings also say the approach can increase efficiency and support more advanced physical AI workloads.
@eidon_ai open-sources 1,274 hours of egocentric robotics data
Clement Delangue (@ClementDelangue) said startup @eidon_ai open-sourced 1,274 hours of egocentric robotics data—13,451 recordings of humans doing everyday tasks—as a gift to the robotics community.
Eidon AI releases 1,274 hours of egocentric video with 7-IMU tracking on Hugging Face
Daniel van Strien said robotics company Eidon AI is winding down and has released all its data on Hugging Face under CC-BY-4.0, including 1,274 hours of egocentric video with paired 7-IMU arm tracking across 13,451 recordings (9 TB).