AWS released a developer bootloader for DeepRacer autonomous race car devices, enabling users to install custom operating systems and modern Linux distributions instead of the outdated Ubuntu 16.04 and 20.04 versions that shipped with the hardware. The bootloader uses certificate-based signature verification with self-service certificate management, provides clear visual warnings when developer mode is active, and the community has already created a distribution based on Ubuntu 24.04 and ROS2 Jazzy. This extends the useful life of DeepRacer devices and allows developers to run modern software stacks and custom algorithms on the hardware.
NVIDIA released Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter open-source world model designed to run on edge devices like Jetson modules and RTX GPUs, enabling robots and vision AI systems to understand scenes, predict outcomes, and generate actions in real time. The model achieves real-time inference at 15 Hz on NVIDIA Jetson Thor while generating 32 actions per inference, and ranks first among similar-sized models on VANTAGE-Bench for vision analytics. The release includes post-trained checkpoints, training recipes, and a robot manipulation policy variant, allowing developers to fine-tune the model for specific applications before deploying to edge hardware.
Sereact, a warehouse robotics company, raised $116 million in Series B funding with Zalando joining as a strategic investor, bringing total funding to over $145 million. The company has deployed over 200 robotic systems across Europe and completed more than one billion picks using its Cortex AI brain, which learns from real-world data collected across customer deployments. With this capital, Sereact will scale Cortex 2.0, which uses predictive world models to plan robot movements before execution, and expand internationally including into North America.
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