By now, you may have heard of Microduck and Reachy Mini by Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face. It’s startling. Yes, Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face have introduced robots and launched them in several color variations, Microduck and Reachy Mini, both below $500, excluding tax. And as per the news, people are buying them, with MicroduckContinue reading “Like it or not, Microduck Robot— it’s selling; people are buying these small young robots.”
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Flying Humanoid Robots for Robots as a Service (RAAS)
This is very futuristic application. They are not there in Chinas World Robot Games. There are techniques for non-humanoid robots to fly. But here we talk of humanoid robots which can fly and make Robots as a Service (RAAS) a real concept. We all know robots are costly, and we cant buy them. But whatContinue reading “Flying Humanoid Robots for Robots as a Service (RAAS)”
AI and Tech this Week!
Greetings everyone, Here are the latest this week in AI and Tech, not just products; key AI news here as well. Stay tuned! (Find my comments in italics.) OpenAI — OpenAI’s Jalapeño AI chip is said to be faster than existing chips. It beats NVIDIA chips and should be available by year-end. — ChatGPT BusinessContinue reading “AI and Tech this Week!”
Are you a CRM company? Full automation of CRM!
Are you a CRM company? Why be left behind in the AI Race? As with Claudeforce — Salesforce and Anthropic partner. Which AI startup is your CRM company tying up with? Claude’s intelligence in Salesforce can make CRM more human-like: no more feeding data in the pre-AI era; the aim should be to talk toContinue reading “Are you a CRM company? Full automation of CRM!”
Loops versus Prompts (Eg. Natural Calamaties)
Prompt is a one time call to the LLM. You can use RAG with prompts but that does not get better and repeat itself for improvements. And most of us have to reprompt. Something that improve the regular reprompting? Can we set a loop programitacially or via another prompt (yes a big set of instructionsContinue reading “Loops versus Prompts (Eg. Natural Calamaties)”
In China, World Humanoid Robots Games 2026
The first version of the Humanoid Tournament was held at the same time last year. A five-day event started on Saturday. More than 2000 robots from 666 teams from around the world are participating. Why do they all look the same in the tournament? Is it actually a tournament? So many teams, but why doContinue reading “In China, World Humanoid Robots Games 2026”
This week with key AI. Weekly Summary.
In case you missed out individual updates on my social media. Here’s this week’s update. Chinese Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max Build on Qwen 3.5. 2.4 trillion parameters. Weights now available for download. Right now, free access is available in multiple locations, but not in India. 3 billion downloads. Google Gemini Robotics ER 2: Making robots human-like. GeminiContinue reading “This week with key AI. Weekly Summary.”
The Compute Revolution
Note: This a duplicate copy. The original is on authors link, (PDF) The Compute Revolution Abstract-The compute revolution is here. We are living in it. We are witnesses to it. LPS (Land, Power and Shell) are the new norms. But I say a distributed compute is the most important thing now. Why do only seven companiesContinue reading “The Compute Revolution”
Chinese Alibaba LLM-Qwen. Qwen3.8-Max now available for download.
Summary: Open weights Qwen-Max-class model for downloads around the world. Here. Build on Qwen 3.5. 2.4 trillion parameters. Available on Qwen Cloud. Evaluated on standard LLM datasets, the evaluation is promising when results are compared to Opus4.8, Fable5, GPT5.6 Sol, and Qwen3.7-Max, Qwen’s last model. Not bad I would say. We need cybersecurity tests: CyberLLMInstruct, SecBench, whichContinue reading “Chinese Alibaba LLM-Qwen. Qwen3.8-Max now available for download.”
Gemini Robotics ER 2: Making robots human-like (Gemini Apollo Duo)
Gemini Robotics ER 2 (The Gemini Embodied Reasoning (ER) model)— It’s an intelligence layer- not a robot. It’s demonstrated its performance on robots mentioned below. It makes robots think, act, and accomplish. Three major achievements are: 1- Intelligent whole-body control — walk in a house, building, or on roads to accomplish assigned tasks. Gemini RoboticsContinue reading “Gemini Robotics ER 2: Making robots human-like (Gemini Apollo Duo)”
