RoboStore, a US distributor of Unitree humanoid robots and quadruped robot dogs, is shifting to producing its own robots in a Long Island, New York facility. It said it has sold over 1,500 robots and worked with more than 150 universities. The change moves robot supply from China-made units distributed by RoboStore toward RoboStore-manufactured robots in response to a US ban targeting foreign-made robots.
Tesla Robotaxis in Austin appear to be running fully unsupervised with no onboard human safety monitors, after earlier reports of reduced oversight. Over the past two weeks, all 170 Austin rides tracked by the Robotaxi Tracker were unsupervised across 54 different cars. More areas are showing similar changes, including Dallas and Houston where about 30 driverless Teslas operated over the past week.
Nintendo’s next Switch 2 exclusive, The Duskbloods, was developed through a partnership with FromSoftware and presented through a few hours of gameplay at FromSoftware’s Tokyo offices. The game is targeted for the Switch 2. The preview suggests Nintendo is shifting toward more hardcore, vampire-focused multiplayer experiences alongside its usual approachability.
Merck and Moderna reported a first positive Phase 3 result for an individualized mRNA cancer therapy that uses AI-selected tumor targets. The AI predicts up to 34 neoantigens from a patient’s sequencing data before the therapy is manufactured for that patient. This shifts personalized immunotherapy toward per-patient AI target selection and highlights a related trend in robotics where a model (GEN-1.5) can attempt new tasks from a single 3–12 second physical demonstration.
Veeda AI, led by Sanja Fidler and a team of former Nvidia researchers, raised a seed funding round to develop multimodal world models for simulated physical environments.
The round raised $90 million, reported as coming three months after the business was founded.
With this capital, Veeda will build “simulated reality” infrastructure for training embodied physical AI agents through repeated interactions.
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