autonomousbay.ai

#Autonomous Bay AI | Artificial Intelligence powered Autonomous Bay

#San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA | OpenSpace | 360° reality capture | Building Information Modeling (BIM) | Proactive railway station management | Public transit hubs analysis and modeling | Mobility hub design, planning, optimization, and operation | Digital twin platform | Real-Time Passenger Monitoring | Synthetic Environments | Pedestrian Simulation | 3D Ouster lidar scanning | Ouster Gemini perception | L3 chips

#Mountain View, CA, USA | Gatik AI: developing autonomous vehicle technology for logistics | Luminous: creating supercomputer for AI on single chip | Qventus: AI-based software platform for hospital operations | Drive.ai: creating AI software for autonomous vehicles | Wayve: AI technology for autonomous driving | Pathr.ai: Spatial intelligence analytics for physical locations | Croq | LPU Inference Engine | Fast inference for computationally intensive applications with a sequential component | Better performance on LLMs compared to GPUs | Support PyTorch, TensorFlow, and ONNX for inference | GroqCloud is powered by scaled network of Language Processing Units | HW: crack, node, card

#Santa Clara, CA, USA | NVIDIA | GPU Deep Learning | GPU acting as the brain of computing | Robots and self driving cars can perceive and unferstand the world | Accelerating the entire AI workflow | AI agents designed to reason, plan, and act | Conversational AI: multilingual speech and translation AI | Vision AI: multimodal real-time insights | AI factories: manufacturing intelligence at scale | Purpose-built AI factories | AI life-cycle | Humanoid robotics research and development platform | Machine Learning | Neural networks | Natural language processing | Speech recognition | Recommender systems | Biomedical image segmentation | Object detection | Image classification | Reinforcement learning

#Los Angeles, CA, USA | beomni.ai | AI brain that can power humanoid robots

#Silicon Valley, CA, USA | Stanford Robotics Lab | Research pertaining to all aspects of robotic manipulation and control

#Boulder, CO, USA | picknik.ai | Training platform for robotic applications

#San Jose, CA, USA | figure.ai | General purpose humanoid | Robots to handle general tasks | Enabling robots to learn and interact with environment | Humanoids designed to caring for elderly or even cooking meals | Focusing primarily on industrial warehouse applications to start

#Cupertino, CA, USA | Apple | iPhone

#San Diego, CA, USA | UC San Diego | Shield AI | University of San Diego: Master of Science in Applied Artificial Intelligence program

#France | Lucas Robotic System | Automation solutions for robotics integrators and manufacturers of digital axis-based machines so that they can build the factories of the future

#Pittsburgh, PA, USA | HEBI Robotics | Robotics development platform

#Oregon, USA | Agility Robotics | Commercially deployed humanoid robot

#Boston, MA, USA | PathAI | AI-powered pathology

#Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Sanctuary AI | Industrial-grade humanoid robots

#Wilmington, MA, USA | Locus Robotics | Robotics for warehouse automation

#Auckland, New Zealand | Soul Machines | Personal AI assistant

#Ontario, Canada | Services to automation industry

#Santa Clara, CA, USA | Oklo | Developing next-generation fission powerhouses | Producing abundant, affordable, clean energy at global scale

#Cornwall, UK | Engineered Arts Ltd | Humanoid robots also without legs | Ameca Desktop personable robot

#Seattle, WA, USA | Pulumi | Generative AI ecosystem | Pinecone

#San Francisco, CA, USA | Anyscale | Generative AI ecosystem | Cobot: Collaborative Robots | Universal Robotics (UR) | Techman | AUBO

#Silicon Valley,CA,USA | e-con Systems | Camera solutions for NVIDIA platforms | Full HD Global Shutter Camera for Jetson AGX Orin | Jetson AGX Orin: 64GB module, 275 TOPS with power configurable 15W and 60W | Multiple 4k ultra-lowlight camera for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin | Global shutter | Rolling shutter | Autofocus and fixed focus | High resolution and frame rate | High dynamic range | High sensitivity in both visible and NIR regions | Superior color reproduction | MIPI and GMSL2 interfaces | Camera SDK configured to support Isaac SDK | Multi-camera support | NVIDIA Isaac GEMs ROS: GPU-accelerated packages for ROS2 application | Isaac ROS GEMs help to assess camera position with regard to its starting point | Isaac ROS GEMs empower robotic applications to maneuver and navigate through complicated environments | Installing ROS 2 requires Ubuntu 20.04 | Board cameras | USB 3.0 cameras | Autonomous mobile robots, autonomous shopping

#Zurich, Switzerland | ANYbotics | ANYmal legged inspector robot | Industrial inspection robot | Read off value of analog gauges | Read out analog counters | Check state of lever-operated valves | Capture photo for manual analysis | Continuous bookkeeping of structural changes | Scanning and documenting 3d environment data as a digital twin | Workforce browser-based ANYbotics Field Operator application | Field Operator mode: enables to steer, set points of interest, visualize recorded facility maps, and create inspection missions | Mission Controller mode: enables to safely control single ANYmal, monitor fleet, and execute validated missions from thousands of kilometers away | Robot Administrator: unlocks protected functions for fleet-wide software upgrades

#Austin, Texas. USA | Apptronik | Human centered robotic systems | Robotics systems operating in close proximity to humans | Astra upper body humanoid robot | Dreamer upper body humanoid developed by MEKA for UT Austin HCRL

#Toronto, Canada | Cohere | Generative AI ecosystem | Pinecone

#Mountain View, CA, USA | Confluent | Generative AI ecosystem | Pinecone

#Vienna, Austria | SEA.AI | Detecting floating objects early | Using thermal and optical cameras to catch also objects escaping conventional ­systems such as Radar or AIS: Unsignalled crafts or other floating obstacles, e.g., containers, tree trunks, buoys, inflatables, kayaks, persons over board | System computes input from lowlight and thermal cameras, using Machine Vision technology, deep learning capabilities and proprietary database of millions of annotated marine objects | High-resolution lowlight and thermal cameras | Real-time learning of water surface patterns | Searching for anomalies | Distinguishing water from non-water | Comparing anomalies with neural network | Recognize objects by matching combination of filters | Augmented reality video stream combined with map view | Intelligent alarming based on threat level | Detecting persons in water | On-board cameras with integrated image processing | Providing digital understanding of vessel surroundings on water | SEA.AI App on smartphone or tablet

#San Francisco, CA, USA | Built Robotics | Autonomous solar piling robot | Robotic pile driver | RPD 35 surveys, distributes, drives, and records every pile for an all-in-one machine | Hammer working at 500 blows per minute | Sled carrying system | Pile plot plan is uploaded to the robot computer | Pile plan is automatically divided into sequences of piles | Each sequence is manually loaded into pile baskets | Pile baskets are forked onto sleds with telehandler | Autonomous piling task is initiated | Robot installs all the piles in its payload, then returns to its starting position to be reloaded

#Hemmingen, Germany | HELUKABEL | Cables, Wires and Accessories for Robotics | Sensor technology and data | Network and bus technology | Control and motor | Customer specific solutions

#Sunnyvale, CA, USA | Cerebras | AI inference and training platform | Specialized AI chips | Wafer-scale engine (WSE) | 900,000 cores deliver high levels of parallelism required to train large-scale models faster and more efficiently | On-chip memory integration provides high-bandwidth access to data | Processing speeds exceeding 2,500 tokens per second | Real-time processing capabilities for autonomous systems, vehicles, devices

#Taipei City, Taiwan | MemryX | AI Accelerator Module | Install system software, MemryX SDK, MemryX board | Compile AI model(s) making executable file | Send data & receive results using APIs for AI processing | Up to 6 TFLOPs (1GHz) per chip | Up to 16-chips (96 TOPS/TFLOPs) can be interconnected | Activations: bfloat16 (high accuracy) | Weights: 4 / 8 / 16 bit | Batch = 1 | 10.5M 8-bit parameters (weights) per chip | PCIe Gen 3 I/O | USB 3 interface | 0.6-2W per chip av power | Smart compiler: optimized and automated AI mapping to MemryX hardware | Powerful APIs: Python and C/C++ low and mid-level APIs for AI integration | Runtime: driver and firmware to support Windows or Linux distributions | Bit Accurate simulator: accurately testing models even without MemryX hardware

#Odense, Denmark | Enabled Robotics | Intralogistics automation for the manufacturing industry | Picking of objects as well as their transportation | Mobile cobot | Collaborative robot

#Taipei City, Taiwan | MemryX | AI Accelerator Module | Install system software, MemryX SDK, MemryX board | Compile AI model(s) making executable file | Send data & receive results using APIs for AI processing | Up to 6 TFLOPs (1GHz) per chip | Up to 16-chips (96 TOPS/TFLOPs) can be interconnected | Activations: bfloat16 (high accuracy) | Weights: 4 / 8 / 16 bit | Batch = 1 | 10.5M 8-bit parameters (weights) per chip | PCIe Gen 3 I/O | USB 3 interface | 0.6-2W per chip av power | Smart compiler: optimized and automated AI mapping to MemryX hardware | Powerful APIs: Python and C/C++ low and mid-level APIs for AI integration | Runtime: driver and firmware to support Windows or Linux distributions | Bit Accurate simulator: accurately testing models even without MemryX hardware

#San Francisco, CA, USA | OpenSpace | openspace.ai | OpenSpace Spatial AI engine maps photos to plans automatically | As-built record of the building from preconstruction to handover and operation | Stay on top of progress | Verify work-in-place | Improve coordination | Reduce risk | AI automatically calculates progress of specific construction activities | Verify work completed for payment applications and better scheduling | Machine learning and computer vision to recognize, track, and quantify work-in-place | Heatmaps on floor plan | Progress Chart plots quantity installed over time | Live dashboards | Export OpenSpace Track progress data

#San Francisco, CA, USA | Thinking Machines Lab | thinkingmachines.ai | Building artificial intelligence models and products | Competing on high end of large language models | Human-AI collaboration | Building AI that can adapt to full spectrum of human expertise | Multimodal systems that work with people collaboratively | AI models that can work across text, audio, video | AI models designed to excel in science and programming | Publishing technical blog posts, papers, program code | Mira Murati: CEO | John Schulman: Chief Scientist | Barret Zoph: CTO | Alexander Kirillov: Multimodal Research Head | John Lachman: Head of Special Projects | Alex Gartrell: Linux kernel, networking, and containerization | Andrew Tulloch: ML systems research and engineering | Brydon Eastman: Human and synthetic data, model alignment and RL | Christian Gibson: Supercomputers used in training frontier models | Devendra Chaplot: VLMs, RL, & Robotics | Ian O Connell: Infrastructure engineering | Jacob Menick: ML researcher | Joshua Gross: Products and research | Kurt Shuster: Reasoning | Kyle Luther: ML researcher | Lilian Weng: Research | Luke Metz: Research scientist and engineer | Mario Saltarelli: IT and Security leader | Myle Ott: AI researcher | Nikki Sommer: HRBP | Noah Shpak: ML Engineer, GPUs | Pia Santos: Executive Operations Leader | Randall Lin: Algorithms | Rowan Zellers: Realtime multimodal posttraining | Sam Schoenholz: Scaling, optimization | Sam Shleifer: Inference | Stephen Chen: Infrastructure engineer | Stephen Roller: Full-stack pre-training | Yinghai Lu: ML system engineer

#Cambridge, MA, USA | RGoRobotics | Perception Engine | AGV | AMR | Environments where machines and people operate in close proximity

#Zurich, Switzerland | GAM | Robotic and servo gear | GPL Robotic Planetary | GCL Cycloidal | GSL Strain Wave | Precision Rack & Pinion | Linear Mount Products for Cartesian Robots | Manufacturing | IL, U.S.

#Berkeley, CA, USA | UC Berkley | Professor Trevor Darrell | Advancing machine intelligence | Methods for training vision models | Enabling robots to determine appropriate actions in novel situations | Approaches to make VLMs smaller and more efficient while retaining accuracy | How LLMs can be used as visual reasoning coordinators, overseeing the use of multiple task-specific models | Utilizing visual intelligence at home while preserving privacy | Focused on advancements in object detection, semantic segmentation and feature extraction techniques | Researched advanced unsupervised learning techniques and adaptive models | Researched cross-modal methods that integrate various data types | Advised SafelyYou, Nexar, SuperAnnotate. Pinterest, Tyzx, IQ Engines, Koozoo, BotSquare/Flutter, MetaMind, Trendage, Center Stage, KiwiBot, WaveOne, DeepScale, Grabango | Co-founder and President of Prompt AI

#Bulle, Switzerland | Liebherr | Mining machine automation | Open and interoperable mine automation platforms | Autonomous haulage technology | Machine automation for excavators and dozers | Onboard Analytics

#West Fargo, ND, USA | Bobcat | Compact equipment | Loaders | Excavators | Compact tractors | Utility products | Telehandlers | Mowers

#San Francisco, CA, USA | SparkAI | Combining people and technology to resolve AI edge cases, false positives, exceptions encountered live in production | Launch & scale automation products faster | Inject augmented human cognition anywhere in production | Launch new products with imperfect AI | Bootstrap new models for evaluation | Stop training in the lab | Deploy product to customers sooner | Let SparkAI protect against edge cases | Derive deeper real world insights on where your model is struggling | All while product is live, generating revenue | Autonomous tractor | John Deere | REST API | Python SDK

#Spelle, Germany | Krone | Autonomous farming systems | Manufacturer of agricultural machinery | Autonomous drive unit acting as smart system that can plow, cultivate, sow, mow, turn and swath

#West Palm Beach, FL, USA (1250 Elizabeth Ave, Suite 2) | Levatas | Builds end to end AI solutions, machine learning models, and human in the loop systems automating visual inspection | Teamed with Boston Dynamics

#Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel | run.ai (RUN AI) | Accelerating AI development with comprehensive life cycle support from concept to deployment | Software Toold for AI System Development and Deployment

#UK, Northampton, England (5 Grange Park Court, Roman Way) | Forterra | AutoDrive | Driverless system | Autonomous vehicle system.| Vehicle-platform and payload agnostic | In-Vehicle, Remote or Garrison Oversight | Off-Road/On-Road | GPS-Denied Operation | Single-Vehicle Waypoint Route Navigation | Multi-Vehicle Convoys and Platooning | Static and Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance | Mission Re-Pathing | Retrotraverse and Reverse Platooning, with Trailers | Ouster lidar

#Freiburg, Germany (Botzinger Str. 60, D-79111) | OndoSense | Radar distance sensor | Sensor software: integrated into control system or used for independent quality monitoring | Object detection | Distance measurement | Position control | Agriculture: reliable height control of the field sprayer | Mining industry | Transport & Logistics | Shipping & Offshore | Mechanical and plant engineering | Metal and steel industry | Energy sector | Harsh industrial environments | Dust & smoke: no influence | Rain & snow: no influence | Radar frequency: 122GHz | Opening angle: ±3° | Measuring range: 0.3 – 40 m | Measuring rate: up to 100Hz | Output rate: up to 10 ms / 100 Hz | Measurement accuracy; up to ±1mm | Measurement precision: ±1mm | Communication protocol: RS485; Profinet, other interfaces via gateway | Switching output: 3x push-pull (PNP/NPN) | Analogue output: Current interface (4 – 20 mA) | Protection class: IP67

#Boston, MA, USA | Robotics & AI Institute | Collaborates with Boston Dynamics | Developed jointly Reinforcement Learning Researcher Kit for Spot quadruped robot | Developing sim-to-real for mobility | Transferring simulation results to real robotic hardware | Bridging sim-to-reality gap | Training policies generating a variety of agile behavior on physical hardware | Trying to achieve novel, robust, and practical locomotion behavior | Improving whole body loco-manipulation | Developing robot capability to manipulate objects and fixtures, such as doors and levers, in conjunction with locomotion significantly enhancing its utility | Exploring new policies to improve robustness in scenarios | Exploring full-body contact strategies | Exploring high-performance, whole-body locomotion and tasks that require full-body contact strategies, such as dynamic running and full-body manipulation of heavy objects, necessitating close coordination between arms and legs | Aiming to utilize reinforcement learning to generate behavior during complex contact events without imposing strict requirements | Develop technology that enables future generations of intelligent machines | Streamlining processes for robots to achieve new skills | Developing perception, situational understanding, reasoning, cognitive functions underpinning robot abilities and combining them with advances in their physical capabilities | Conducting research in four core areas: cognitive AI, athletic AI, organic hardware design, and ethics related to robotics

#Torrance, CA, USA (2740 California St, Torrance, CA 90503) | BlueRobotics | Natural feature navigation | SLAM navigation | Driving AGV manually around the site | Recording data from vehicle safety laser scanners | Cleaning map by removing any dynamic objects | Programming required routes for AGV | Autonomous Navigation Technology (ANT) | Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV)

#Switzerland (Rue Galilee 6, Yverdon-Les-Bains) | Ecorobotix | Plant-by-Plant AI detection and treatment softwareAlgorithms to detect and treat an extensive array of crops and weeds | High-resolution camera system for scanning | Recognition and differentiation of useful and harmful plants by computer | Control over precision nozzels | Real-time imagery capturing amd object ifrntification in less than 250 milöiseconds | Spray footprint of 6x6 cm (2.4x2.4 in). | Precision agriculture by accurately detecting and treating individual plants

#Covina, CA, USA | (440 N Barranca Ave, Covina, CA, 91723) | Vercel | Generative AI ecosystem | Pinecone

#South Wales, UK (Avondale Way, Avondale Industrial Estate, Cwmbran) | Xwatch Safety Solutions | Safety solutions to machinery

#San Jose, CA, USA | ABB Robotics | Robotics | Machine automation | Robotics campus | Collaborative and industrial robot arms | Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) | Innovation hub for robotics startups | Offering startups support to run proof of concepts, lend products and technology expertise and venture capital

#Oakland, CA, USA | BlinkLab (ASX: BB1) | Early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and schizophrenia | Smartphone-neurobehavioral | High-speed video tracking of face | Mobile app as medical device to perform neurometric tests | Tests as biomarkers for neurological and psychiatric disorders | Smartphone camera and microphone as sensors | Results uploaded to cloud-based portal for storage and analysis using machine learning | Venture in digital healthcare

#London, UK (107 Cheapside, London) | Captain AI | Fully autonomous shipping solutions | AI models for object detection, image classification and instance segmentation | Creating comprehensive situational awareness | Route planner | Sensor fusion algorithm | Using radar, cameras, GPS, Octance, sonar and AIS installed on vessels | Three test vessels in the port of Rotterdam: tugboat from Kotug International, Watertaxi 14 from Watertaxi Rotterdam and patrol vessel from Port of Rotterdam Authority

#London, UK (88, Notting Hill Gate,bW11 4HP) | Stability AI | Generative AI | Chatbot with text and image generation | Text-to-image technology | Multi-subject prompts | Model available via API | Generative AI video model | Music and sound effects generation with audio diffusion technology | 3D object generation from single images

#Australia (Ground Floor, 365 Ferntree Gully Road, Mount Waverley, VIC 3149) | Titomic | Titomic Kinetic Fusion Additive Manufacturing (TKF AM) systems | Integrating cold spray technologies, software and robotics into existing systems | Proprietary manufacturing cell | Manufacturing prototypes on a small scale | Cold spray powders | Rapid repairs | Metal coatings without heat | Build and incorporate electronic sensors directly into parts | Industry 4.0 platform | Linux NAS server

#Mulgrave, Australia | Optiscan Imaging (ASX:OIL) | Digital confocal laser endomicroscopic imaging system tailored for application in robotic surgery | Digital endomicroscopic hardware and software | Robot-compatible endomicroscopic imaging system | Robotic-assisted breast cancer surgery | Embedding its technology as a key component of oncological surgery workflows | Collabirates with Mayo Clinuc to create a robot-compatible endomicroscopic imaging system

#Quebec, Canada (4333 boulevard de la Grande-Allee, Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada) | Kinova Robotics | Ultra lightweight professional robots

#Germany | IDS | Industrial image processing | 3D cameras | Digital twins can distinguish color | Higher reproducible Z-accuracy | Stereo cameras: 240 mm, 455 mm | RGB sensor | Distinguishing colored objects | Improved pattern contrast on objects at long distances | Z accuracy: 0.1 mm at 1 m object distance | SDK | AI based image processing web service | AI based image analysis

#Subiaco, Western Australia ( Unit 6, 335 Hay Street, Subiaco, Western Australia 6008) | HyTerra | White hydrogen exploration | Natural hydrogen and helium.| Nemaha project in Kansas City and Wichita | White hydrogen: lower costs and a cleaner alternative than hydrogen created from gas or water | Amazon | Bill Gates | Airborne geophysical survey by HyTerra

#USA Geological Service (USGS) | White hydrogen searchers have been looking in wrong places | Right geologies are now known, race is on | USGS to publish map | A mix of at least 15% H2 could be blended into natural gas pipelines | Dedicated hydrogen pipelines

#Birmingham, UK (Bromwich Business Park Tameside Castle Dr Unit C, Birmingham, West Midlands, B35 7AG, United Kingdom) RNA Automation | Vision systems | Automated feeding; handling, robotic systems

#Cambridge, MA, USA | MIT | Autonomous Systems Development Facility (ASDF) | Enabling the development and testing of autonomy algorithms and capabilities | Prototyping and testing of ground-based, aerial, and undersea autonomous systems | Infrared sensors | Integrated motion capture system | Reflective tags on vehicles | Indoor positioning system generating GPS signals | Dry running systems indoors before major outdoor field tests | UAV copter with propeller with low acoustic signature | System for countering unmanned aircraft in urban environment

#West Lafayette, IN, USA | Solinftec | Agricultural Platform powered by AI | Integrated from pre-planting to post-harvesting | Algorithms reducing time spent driving and idling | Route optimization | Machine learning to automate operations

#San Francisco, CA, USA (341 Moultrie Street,CA 94110, USA) | perplexity.ai | Generative content aggregator

#Paris, France (136 rue Saint Denis, Paris, France) | Cardiologs | AI-powered solutions for cardiac monitoring and diagnostics

#Culver City, CA, USA | Field AI | Autonomous systems for machines deployed to fields | Off-road autonomy

#New York, NY, USA (1375 Broadway, Floor 11, New York, NY 10018) | Pinecone | Serverless vector database architecture

#Washington, D.C. USA (4555 Overlook Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20375) | Navy Research Laboratory (NRL) | Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) | Prototyping High Bay | Littoral High Bay | Desert High Bay | Tropical High Bay

#San Francisco, CA, USA | LangChain | Generative AI ecosystem | Comparison View | Hotkeys in Annotation Queue | Tools to evaluate response quality: correctness | Pinecone

#Copenhagen, Denmark | Flow Robitics | Pipetting robot | Designed to simplify and automate repetitive manual pipetting tasks

#Alameda, CA, USA | rain.aero | Wildfire Mission Autonomy System | Autonomous aircraft for wildfire response | Adapting military and civil autonomous aircraft for wildfire suppression | Collaborates with Sikorsky

#Monaco | SES | Satellite communications service provider | Acquired Intelsat S.A. | Creating stronger multi-orbit operator | Video broadcast and data connectivity | MEO satellites | GEO satellites | Mercy Ships | Commercial Maritime

#Australia | Advanced Navigation | AI robotics and navigation technologies | Neural networks | Deep learning algorithms | Inertial navigation | Sonar navigation | Photonic sensing | Quantum sensors | Manufactured in Australian facilities | Orientus IMU/AHRS for PAL Robotics humanoud robot

#Barcelona, Spain | PAL Robotics | Humanoid robotplatforms for research |TALOS for research in AI and machine learning | Kangaroo biped research platform | Partnering with Advanced Navigation by integrating Orientus IMU/AHRS

#Bordeaux, France | Pollen Robotics | Focused on creating open-source, AI-driven interactive robots | Aims to make robotics accessible for real-world applications | Flagship product, Reachy, is a modular humanoid robot designed for research, healthcare, and retail applications | Reachy 2 features teleoperation capabilities, Python programmability, and ROS 2 Foxy support | It offers multiple configurations and has been adopted by Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University for advanced AI research

#San Francisco, CA, USA | Ouster | High-resolution lidar sensors | Perception software | Gemini software platform: accurately detecting and classifying human and vehicle | Ouster Studio: Digital Lidar Visualizer | Lidar based localization: navigation without satellite connection | CM levels of precision for hyper accurate maps and localization capabilities | -40°C to 85°C operating temperatures | Reliable perception in rain, fog, dust, and snow | Powered by L3 | 10x photon sensitivity | 5.2m points per second

#Lausanne Switzerland | Flyability | Collision and crash resistant inspection drone | Ouster lidar | GPS denied environments | Survey-grade 3D models with accuracy to +/- 2cm, even in dark, dusty, and reflective environments

#Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | NextDC | Australian data centre developer and operator | Microsoft$128bn AI-fuelled data centre development pipeline | Large language models hitting the limits of scaling laws for pre-training | AI reasoning models also depend on inference-time scaling | Rules prohibit further data-centre development in certain zones

#Mountain View, CA, USA | BA Insight | AI assistance enablement technology | Language Processing Unit (LPU) | Language and linear computation | Machine learning | Large language model (LLM) | GroqCloud API | AI Inference | Programming languages: Go, Rust, C++, Python | Software stack: TCP, Linux kernel scheduler | Hardware: ASIC design | Electric engineering: high-speed chip to chip, SERDES, memory interfaces and operations | Lab equipment: real-time scope, sampling scope, spectrum analyzer, BERT | SI/PI tools: Cadence/Ansys , Synopsys | High speed processors: Graphics, Microprocessors, Network Processors, Mobile / Multimedia SOC | EDA tools: Cadence Genus/Innovus/Tempus, Synopsys Fusion Compiler/ICC2/Primetime, Ansys Redhawk, Joules/PTPX

#Waltham, MA, USA | Boston Dynamics | Spot robot |Predicting Bearing Failures with Acoustic Vibration Sensing | Enhancing safety and efficiency in high-risk scenarios | Automatung reality capture in industrial facilities | Delivering accurate data to enhance inspections and decision-making

#Shanhai, China | CHC Navigation | Solutions for mapping, navigation, and positioning | GNSS systems | LiDAR

#Ancona, Italy | Ferretti Group | Custom Line | Asante: all aluminum Custom Line 50 | Aluminum to offer performance and fuel consumption benefits

#Laguna Hills, CA, USA | BrainChip | Licenses AI accelerator hardware designs combined with state-of-the-art development tools and advanced neural network models | Bringing on device intelligence to any chip design | Processor IP uses sparsity to focus on the most important data, inherently avoiding unnecessary computation and saving energy at every step | State-space model architecture tracks events over time instead of sampling at fixed intervals, skipping periods of no change to save energy and memory | Edge AI audio processing | Enablinging real-time video and image processing directly on-device | Processing data from sensors like accelerometers, gyroscopes, microphones, radar, and environmental monitors directly on-device | Continuous health tracking that fits Into small wearables | In cabin sensor-based occupant detection system | No unending cloud fees | Support real-time streaming data | Keeps working, even without a network connection | Data stays on device, not in cloud | No transmissionsvmeans less risk of interception | Akida Development Environment (MetaTF) machine learning framework | Processor IP simulator | Python API for neural networks | Conversion Tool (cnn2snn) to convert models to a binary format for model execution on an Akida platform | PCIe Development Board featuring AKD1000 neuromorphic processor in standard PCIe form factor | Akida AKD1000 card features built in capabilities to execute networks without host CPU | BrainChip and VVDN created Akida Edge AI Box for applications such as video analytics, face recognition, and object detection | Event-based neural processor | Models include audio denoising, automatic speech recognition, and language models

#Denham Renewable Hydrogen Microgrid, Western Australia | Horizon Power | ARENA Advancing Renewables program 704-kilowatt (kW) solar farm | 348kW hydrogen electrolyser | 100kW fuel cell

#Munich, Bavaria Germany | NavVis | Digital Factory solution: mobile mapping, laser scanning, reality capture technology, comprehensive spatial data with 360 degree photos, info to rchitecture, engineering, and construction professionals (AEC) | Digital factory twin | Construction verification | Overcoming production challenges | Improving collaboration in construction projects | EU Taxonomy compliance

#Rotterdam, Netherlands | Ocean Cleanup | Waste extracting from rivers and oceans

#London, UK | skyengine.ai | Synthetic data to augment Deep Learning training datasets | Createing DL and AI models that generalize better against unknown real-world data and with reduced algorithmic biases | Platform: simulation and deep learning cloud | Generating fully annotated, synthetic data | Providing advanced domain adaptation algorithms | Training AI computer vision algorithms at scale | Synthetic Data Cloud for Deep Learning in Virtual Reality for Computer Vision Developers | Deep Learning in Metaverse full technology stack | GPU simulator: Physics-based rendering shaders tailored to sensor fusion | AI-based image and video processor for domain adaptation | Specific neural network models for: Object detection, Classification, Semantic Segmentation | Shaping virtual environments

#San Jose, CA, USA | Cadense | Millennium Platform: AI-driven digital twin supercomputer | Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer: AI-enabled design optimization | Optimality Intelligent System Explorer: AI-driven Multiphysics analysis | Verisium Verification Platform: AI-driven verification platform | Allegro X AI: AI-driven PCB Design | Tensilica AI Platform: On-device AI IP

#Cleveland OH, USA | Harmonic Drive | Rotary Actuator |Shaft Gear | Drive Train | Gear Unit | Servo drive

#Salem, Oregon, USA | RoboFab | Agility Robotics | Factory imanufacturing bipedal robot Digit for logistics and warehouse operations

#Lafayette, Indiana, USA | Catepillar | Large engine facilityBackup and prime power for data centres globally | Demand in part by cloud computing and generative artificial intelligence | Industrial Generator Sets | Diesel Generator Sets | Gas Generator Sets | Mobile Generator Sets

#Torrance, CA, USA | GITAI | Building robotic workforce for space exploration | Tasks in micro-gravity environments | Grapple end-effectors for docking spacecraft, manipulating payload, inspecting & repairing with high precision | Remote control interface

#Guam, Pacific Ocean, USA | Infinera | Australia Japan Cable | High bandwidth super-channels | Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) | Special Processors | Pre-deploying bandwidth that is available when needed | Using Instant Bandwidth to activate that bandwidth on demand | Operationally complex deep-sea repair ship deployment

#Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Kowloon Peninsula, New Territories | Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited (HTHKH) | Fiber optic network throughout Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories | Connectimg cross-border routes and submarine landing station | High-capacity active mobile fronthaul services | Need for more bandwidth to cell tower | Setting stage for move to 5G wireless technology | Preparing for 5G with cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) | HGC selected Infinera XTM Series active Mobile Fronthaul Solution for deployment across its optical network in Hong Kong | Infinera Mobile Fronthaul Solution enables HGC to deliver mobile fronthaul services featuring high bandwidth including up to 12G Option 10 CPRI services

#Monrovia, CA, USA | SiLC | Developing a fully integrated FMCW LiDAR solution | FMCW LiDAR on Chip | Making machine perception more like human perception | Proprietary silicon photonic integration platform | 4D imaging solutions | Utilizing frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) at 1550nm wavelength

#Saudi Arabia | Aramco Digital | Croq | AI inference data center | Massive-scale inference workloads | nawatAI compute center | Facility to process billions of tokens per day | Supporting millions of developers

#Mountain View, CA, USA | Dusty Robotics | FieldPrinter automates transfering of digital model directly to construction site floor

#Copenhagen, Denmark | Flow Robotics | Pipetting robot | Integrated magnetic deck, a coldplate, a cooling block, and a shaker with or without temperature control | Loops in washing steps for DNA purification or ELISA | Break points for protocols including incubation | Setting a timer in the program | Bottom touching the pipette after dispensing | Liquid level detection | Protocol optimization | Flowbot ONE software producing master mix and dispensing it into 96 well PCR plate

#San Antonio, Texas, USA | Renu Robotics | Vegetation management

#Bedford, MA, USA | Celeramotion | Precision Components | Mechatronic Assemblies

#Brighton, CO, USA | outrider.ai | Automating yard operations for logistics hubs | Electric, zero-emission yard trucks | Advanced Testing Facility, which mimics distribution yards

#Basaz, France | Lucas Robotic System | Linear axis and robot gantries

#Seattle WA, USA | Carbon Robotics | Autonomous LaserWeeder Robot | Deep Learning | Laser | Lidar Sensor | Nvidia | Cumming

#Santa Clara, CA, USA | plus.ai | Generative AI-based autonomous driving software | Making it possible for vehicles to understand, predict, and maneuver safely on road, learning and adapting | Autonomous Truck | Deep neural network (DNN) models | Auto-labeling,| Model distillation

#Madrid, Spain | Ommatidia Lidar | 3D Light Field Sensor

#Mountain View, CA, USA | Croq | AI inference technology | Language Processing Unit (LPU) | CLI utility bringing natural language power understanding to your command line | Shell-AI leverages LangChain for LLM use and builds on InquirerPy for interactive CLI

#Boston, MA, USA | MassRobotics | Ori | Ikea | Boston Seaport District | Amazon | Google | Mitsubishi Electric | Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT | Cybernetix Ventures

#KY, USA| Brightpick | AI warehouse robot | Mobile robots use AI to reliably pick autonomously and consolidating orders directly in warehouse aisles | Robots work with standard shelving | brightpick.ai

#Santa Clara, CA, USA | OLogic | Robotics | Pumpkin Pi i350 EVK | Edge AI platform | Designed for mainstream AI + IoT applications | Vision and voice edge processing | Facial, object, gesture, motion recognition | LPR, voice activation and speed recognition | Sound isolation, bio-tech and biometric measurements

#Shanghai, China | Fourier | GRx humanoid robot series | GR-2 stands 175 cm (68.9 in.) tall and weighs 63 kg (139 lb.) | GR-2 offers 53 degrees of freedom and single-arm load capacity of 3 kg (6.6 lb.) | Fourier humanoid has detachable battery | Concealed wires and more compact packaging | Hands with 12 degrees of freedom | Array-type tactile sensors that sense force and can identify object shapes and materials |Fourier Smart Actuators (FSA) | Software development kit (SDK)

#London, UK | Shadow Robot Company | Humanoid robot hand | 24 joints | 20 degrees of freedom | Teleoperation with tactile feedback systems | NASA | Carnegie Mellon University | Based on Robot Operating System (ROS)

#Belgium, EU | Movu Robotics | Robotics | Automated pallet storage solution | Accessible cold storage automation | Temperature-controlled food and pharmaceutical industry | Space optimisation in storage | Streamlined materials handling process | Energy efficiency for cold storage | Robotics for low temperatures with icy and slippery surfaces | Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) | Automating picking | Fleet management software

#Mill Valley, CA, USA | Formant | Cloud platform for robotics companies

#Palo Alto, CA, USA | Neptune Labs | neptune.ai | Tracking foundation model training | Model training | Reproducing experiments | Rolling back to the last working stage of model | Transferring models across domains and teams | Monitoring parallel training jobs | Tracking jobs operating on different compute clusters | Rapidly identifying and resolving model training issues | Workflow set up to handle the most common model training scenarios | Tool to organize deep learning experiments

#Boston, MA, USA | Harvard Move Lab | Multidisciplinary research initiative | Focused on advancing human performance enhancement | Aims to protect, extend, and restore physical abilities | Integrating entrepreneurship, research, and technology | Brings together researchers, clinicians, technologists, designers, and users | Creates impactful solutions through convergent research and collaboration | Supports teams with space, funding, and infrastructure | Collaborated in hosting Robotics in Age & Assistive Tech event

#Los Angeles, CA, USA | UCLA | AI model analyzing medical images of diseases | Deep-learning framework | SLice Integration by Vision Transformer (SLIViT) | Analyzing retinal scan, ultrasound video, CT, MRI | Identifying potential disease-risk biomarkers | Using novel pre-training and fine-tuning method | Relying on large, accessible public data sets | NVIDIA T4 GPUs, NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs, NVIDIA CUDA used to conduct research | SLIViT makes large-scale, accurate analysis realistic | Disease biomarkers help understand disease trajectory of patients | Tailoring treatment to patients based on biomarkers found through SLIVIT | Model largely pre-trained on datasets of 2D scans | Fine-tuning model on 3D scans | Transfer learned model to identify different disease biomarkers by fine-tuning on datasets consisting of imagery from very different modalities and organs | Trained on 2D retinal scans and then fine-tuned model on MRI of liver | Helping model with downstream learnings even though different imagery domains

#Tampere, Finland | Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard

#Montreal, Canada | Mecademic Robotics | Six-axis industrial robot arm | Robot arms built entirely from aluminum | Control by Python | SCARA robot achieves position repeatability of 0.005 mm, enabling to automate even the most intricate tasks and elevate product quality | Montreal | Canada | Maxon micromotors | Microautomation solutions | Microautomation cell | Automated medical device assembly process

#San Francisco, CA, USA | Anthropic | AI safety and research | AI powered software engineering | AI to turn market trends into marketing campaign | AI powered connection to codebases for help on software troubleshooting errors and identifying code optimizations | AI powered computer use | AI prompt caching | Syncing GitHub repositories with AI model | Researching how large language models work internally | Searching relations among data, compute, parameters, and performance of large-scale networks | Studying and engaging with safety issues of large models | Amazon Bedrock | Google Cloud Vertex | GitLab

#Seatle, WA, USA | Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington

#IL, USA | Trossen Robotics | ROS Robot Arms | Aloha Solo package | Intel RealSense cameras | Compact tripod mount | Tripod overhead camera | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

#Santa Clara, CA, USA | Astera Labs | Intelligent Connectivity Platform | High-speed connectivity integrated circuits (ICs), modules, boards | Connectivity System Management and Optimization Software | Providing hyperscaler customers ability to deploy and operate high-performance AI and cloud infrastructure | Software-defined IC architecture | Distributed microcontrollers and sensors | Real-time link and device monitoring | Smart Fabric Switches | PCIe 6 fabric switch | Delivering maximum predictable performance to increase GPU utilization | Protocol and performance optimization for increased data transfer efficiency | Real-time telemetry data | Built-in protocol analyzer with link state history and timestamps | Full non-destructive eye scan for RX Lane margining | Self-test features to minimize link downtime and accelerate fault isolation | AI scale-up (GPU-to-GPU) | AI clusters | Generative AI applications | Nvidia supplier

#Pittsburg, CA, USA | Bishop-Wisecarver | 8th Axis vertical extendibility solutions for to increase reach for small robots and cobots | Vertical movement with travel lengths up to 4 meters | Expanding working envelope for large-scale tasks like painting, sandblasting, and pressure washing | Single robot in place of several larger robots | Actuated linear guide system | Rotary motion guides | Rotary actuators | Customized rotary motion solutions to follow virtually any path | DualVee Motion Technology | DualVee-Single-Edge-Track | DualVee-Journals | Guide wheel components | Linear guide wheel | Track lubricator assemblies | HepcoMotion aluminum profile sections | HDRT track systems combine ring segments and straight slides to follow virtually any path | HepcoMotion PRT2 (Precision Ring and Track), DTS (Driven Track System), and HDRT (Heavy Duty Ring and Track) product lines | HDS2 Heavy Duty Slide System | Precision linear guide components utilizing guide wheel and roller wheel technology

#Pittsburgh, PA, USA | ARM Institute Robotics Manufacturing Hub | Offering free assessments and prototyping for small and midsize manufacturers to explore robotics solutions without commitment

#Boston, MA | Apparel Robotics | Apparel industry | Enabling onshoring capabilities | Robotic cells using our Airbender Series Grippers, adaptive end-of-arm-tooling Iris RM, and custom vision system | All built from the ground up to work with fabric-like materials | Handling deformable objects with robots | Mass Robotics | Autodesk Foundation | Massachutes Collaborative | ARM Institute

#Zurich, Switzerland | Anybotics | Manipulation payload | Autonomous maintenance tasks | Powerful and torque-controlled arm | Flexible sensor integration | Open software architecture | Access to low-level joint control for developers | System equipped with NVIDIA Jetson GPU | Onboard execution of AI models and real-time perception algorithms | Integrated platform enables advanced mobile manipulation, such as agile tool use, object handling, and real-time interaction in unstructured environments | Human–robot collaboration | Heavy payload handling | Complex tasks | Intelligent, autonomous legged robotics | Legged robotics research package | Collaboration with Duatic, an ETH Zurich spin-off | Workforce App | Operate ANYmal robot from device | Set up and review robot missions | Industrial Inspection

#Mount Prospect, IL | GAM | Precision mechanical manufacturer of drive solutions used in automation technology | Engineering solutions for demanding environments | Robotic gearboxes | Servo-gearboxes | Precision spiral bevel gearboxes | Rack and pinion | Servo-couplings | GPL Robotic Planetary | GCL Cycloidal | GSL Strain Wave | Linear Mount Products for Cartesian Robots | Backlash <0.1 arcmin (6 arcsec) of gearbox, no adjustment necessary | Operation temperatures -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 160°F) | 20,000 hours operational life | Torque 3500 Nm (31,000 in-lb)

#Houston, Texas, USA | Persona Inc AI |Humanoids for heavy industry 3D job | Developing humanoid platform designed specifically for heavy industry jobs | Commercializing NASA robotic hand IP to deliver superior dexterity for skilled jobs | Adapting to various industry use cases via modularized Personas | Purpose-built humanoids for ship buildong | Taking robots from controlled labs into harsh environments like space and the depths of the sea

#Milano, Italy | Istitutomarangoni | Fashion schools | Milano School of Fashion | Firenze School of Fashion & Art | With AI the most intriguing part of the results is the serendipity, the unknown, the unexpected outcomes that can inspire new design ideas and lead to creative breakthroughs | Humanoid robots and fashion future | Shanghai, humanoid robots transcend fashion hype, reimagining design, challenging beauty norms, and unlocking metaverse opportunities | Convergence of fashion and technology | Human-machine collaboration in fashion | Genuine, emerging trend | Creativity, production, and human-machine interaction | Robots are becoming experimental platforms | Integration of robots into runway | Aesthetic Reinvention: designing beyond the human form | Fostering Human-Robot Collaboration From Runway to Production and Retail | Challenging Beauty Norms | Paving Way for Future Trajectories: The Metaverse of Fashion

#Cambridge, UK | ARM | Advanced RISC Machines | RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computers | ARM processors for portable, battery-powered devices, smartphones, embedded systems | SoftBank Group | AI ecosystem | Renesas | ResCon Technologies, LLC | GitLab | Embedl | Mapbox | Roofline | ENERZAi | 221e | AnchorZ Inc | Excelfore | ax Inc | weeteq | Eeasy Tech | Cerence AI | u-blox | SECO | Klepsydra Technologies | Ampere Computing | Senary Technology Limited | Ceva | Sensory | GitHub | Raspberry Pi Ltd | Untether AI | Eyeris | AiM Future, Inc | Dori AI | DeGirum Corp | OmniSpeech | ADLINK | Yobe | SLAMcore | Elliptic Labs AS | alwaysAI | Edge Impulse | SoundHound AI | Cyberon Corporation | Qeexo AutoML | Fortifyedge | TERAKI | NVIDIA | Neuton.AI | Aizip Inc | BrainChip | Roviero | RelaJet | Visidon

#San Jose, CA, USA | Bonsai Robotics AI | Precision robotics for cost-effective, scalable, and sustainable farm automation | Reimagining agricultural industry | AI-first platform | Making autonomous farming affordable, easy to use, and deployable across all farm equipment | Retrofitting onto existing machines | Building into next generation solutions | Vision-based autonomy software | Empowering growers to monitor and manage all farm equipment through a single, intuitive app for data insights, analysis, notifications, job planning, and vehicle control | VisionSteer: optimizes grower operations by reducing costs, increasing yield, and delivering crucial data insights | Technology Kit: rugged, readily-available automotive-grade sensors and compute to reduce BOM cost while delivering unparalleled performance | Over-the-air software updates | Flory industries: robot aided nut harvester | Farm-ng hardware on Bonsai-powered products

#San Francisco, CA, USA | DiffuseDrive | Realistic data to autonomous systems | AI-generated data indistinguishable from real life | Generating suggestions based on business logic | Quality assurance [QA] layer built on application or use case | Statistical analysis to contextually understand data and build out data points | Building decision trees | Generating wider distribution of data | Augmenting client AI systems | Semantic segmentation, contextual and visual labeling, 2D and 3D bounding boxes to client basuc data | Finding data caps | Filling data caps with AI generated photorealistic imagery and advanced annotation | Experience with cars and drones | Targeting companies producing not only autonomous systems and industrial robots | Creating data engines

#Northern Netherlands, spanning provinces Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe | TopDutch | Focused on 7 key industries: Green Chemistry, WaterTech, Agrifood, Digital Innovation, Life Sciences and Health, Energy and Logistics | Hydrogen: HEAVENN large-scale demo cluster, HyNorth | Start-Up ecosystem | Green Chemistry: Chemport Europe, University of Groningen, green hydrogen | WaterTech | Digital innovation

#Berkeley, CA, USA | Trevor Darrell, Professor at U.C. Berkeley | Vision-language model (VLM) | Training vision models when labeled data unavailable | Techniques enabling robots to determine appropriate actions in novel situations | LLMs used as visual reasoning coordinators | Using multiple task-specific models

#Loughton, UK | Nscale | UK-headquartered AI infrastructure provider | Nscale AI Campus in Loughton | UK largest AI supercomputer | Microsoft’ Azure services | 23,040 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs | Nscale, OpenAI and NVIDIA are together establishing Stargate UK

#San Diego, CA, USA | Advanced Robotics and Controls Lab (ARClab) at University California, San Diego (UCSD) | Dedicated to research in design and automation of intelligent robots for the betterment of humanity | Surgical robots for semi-autonomous and image-guided surgery | Biomimetic robots for human-robot care, animal conservation, and extraterrestrial exploration | Robot learning for interacting with the world around us | Group is directed by Professor Michael Yip | Humanoids in Hospitals: A Technical Study of Humanoid Surrogates for Dexterous Medical Interventions | Differentiable Rendering-based Pose Estimation for Surgical Robotic Instruments | Back to Base: Towards Hands-Off Learning via Safe Resets with Reach-Avoid Safety Filters | SurgIRL: Towards Life-Long Learning for Surgical Automation by Incremental Reinforcement Learning | AutoPeel: Adhesion-aware Safe Peeling Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Wound Care

#Chongqing Municipality, China | AI Plus initiative of China | Seres Group embodying intelligence through a new partnership with ByteDance |China increasingly recognized by global enterprises as a core base for AI research and development (R&D) and AI application, multiple global investors | AI Plus initiative, laying out systematic approach to strengthening supportive AI infrastructure and accelerating integration of AI technology across economic and social domains | Integration of AI with sustainable manufacturing | AI-powered industrial development can drive new cooperative ventures. Vast market, rapid application iteration, comprehensive industrial ecosystem and maturing innovation environment seen as key attractions | STMicroelectronics: China distinct cost advantages in AI innovation provide both technical and economic foundation for large-scale smart application deployment in manufacturing | Qualcomm: committed to leveraging expertise in AI to collaborate with Chongqing in building a system of new quality productive forces centered on AI | DeepSeek is fostering a global shift toward more open and collaborative AI development

#Sacramento, CA, USA | CalCompute | Providing resources to startups and researchers developing large AI systems | AI laws in California | New laws signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom aim to make AI and social media landscape in California safer, especially for minors | Requiring AI companies to incorporate guardrails that prevent so-called companion chatbots from talking to users of any age about suicide or self-harm | Requiring all AI systems alert minors using chatbots that they are not human every three hours | Systems also are barred from promoting any sexually explicit conduct to users who are minors | Children committed suicide after being influenced by an AI chatbot companion | Removed a civil legal defense that some AI developers have been using to make the case that they are not responsible for any harm caused by their products | Forcing developers to vet their product better and ensure that they can be held to account if their product does cause harm to its users | Increasing civil penalties for AI developers who knowingly create nonconsensual deepfake AI pornography | Preventing students to create AI generated nude photos of classmates | Requiring large AI companies to publicly disclose certain safety and security protocols and report to CA state on critical safety incidents

#El Secundo, CA, USA | Durin | Building and operating automated drill rigs to accelerate mineral discovery | Building remotely operated, semi-autonomous rigs to drill faster, reduce human error, and keep workers safe | Sending data directly from the rig to geologists, allowing them to make decisions faster, anywhere in the world | Every drill program helps design even better machines for next projects | Providing mineralogical and structural data from the rig in minutes, assaying data in days

#Oxford, UK | SFA Oxford | Research | Critical minerals in Artificial Intelligence

#Espoo, Finland | Nokia | Advancing trusted connectivity for the AI supercycle | NVIDIA Corporation USD 1.0 billion equity investment in Nokia | Developing Nokia 5G & 6G RAN software to run on NVIDIA architecture | Incorporating Nokia data center switching and optical technologies in NVIDIA AI infrastructure architecture

#Santa Clara, CA, USA | NVIDIA | Invested $1 Billion in Nokia to Accelerate AI-RAN Innovation and Lead Transition from 5G to 6G | Accelerating development and deployment of next generation AI native mobile networks and AI networking infrastructure | NVIDIA Arc Aerial RAN Computer, a 6G-ready telecommunications computing platform | Nokia AI-RAN product based on NVIDIA platform | T-Mobile U.S. working with Nokia and NVIDIA to integrate AI-RAN technologies into its 6G development process | Dell Technologies provides PowerEdge servers to power new AI-RAN solution

#Stockholm, Sweden | Hexagon | AEON humanoid | Dexterous hands | Multimodal sensor suite | Mission control system | Top speed: 2.4m/s | Weight: 60kg | Height: 165cm | Battery: Auto-swap | Payload: 15 kg short-term, 8 kg constant carry | Degrees of freedom: 34

#Switzerland Zurich | Omega | Ocean exploration with Omega watch | Water resistant: minimum depth of 30 bar (300 m/1000 ft) depending on model | Helium valve: prevents He molecules, which expand during decompression, from popping crystal face and caseback of watch | Unidirectional rotating bezel: preventing divers from accidentally rotating it wrong way and miscalculating dive time | Display: luminescent hands, indexes and dot | Shock and rack resistant: exploring caves, shipwrecks and reefs | Extendable bracelet: making extra room for thickness of diving suit | Antimagnetic: resisting forces from electronic devices | Pushers that work perfectly underwater | Official Timing Partner of the U.S. Olympic Team | Since 1932 brought its renowned precision, expertise, and technical innovation to Olympic Games, separating the margins between gold, silver, and bronze, and serving each athlete during their career-defining moments

#Trondheim, Norway | Ocean Autonomy Cluster | Hub for expertise on ocean autonomy

#Santa Clara, CA, USA | Small & Smart AI | Edge AI

#Espoo, Finland | IQM | Building quantum computers | Full-stack quantum computers | Helping to create ecosystems for the quantum community worldwide | Customers have full access to and control of their machines | Commercial-grade assembly operations built | SDK ensuring seamless HPC integration | IQM Crystal: a square-lattice topology with four nearest neighbors and fast parallel gates | IQM Star 24: accessible through cloud platform, IQM Resonance | Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (QLDPC) codes | Aiming is to achieve a logical error rate of 10**(-9)

#Tortola,British Virgin Islands (BVI) | Nanny Cay | Nanny Cay Boatyard is renowned maritime facility located in British Virgin Islands, known for its state of the art infrastructure and exceptional services catering to boat owners and enthusiast to keep their vessel in ship-shape condition | Major expansion with a new big-boat lift, 112 slips and upgraded yard space to support the surge in large cats and yachts cruising the BVI | Increasing demand from larger multihulls and monohulls | Nanny Cay is home of the long-running BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival | Project includes customer amenities like a new beach, pool, restaurants, retail village and a dedicated classroom for youth maritime programs | Expansion aims to keep pace with the next generation of cruising platforms

#Simpson Bay, St. Maarten, British Virgin Islands (BVI) | Heineken Regatta | The largest regatta in the Caribbean | Serious Fun | Participants are able to enjoy great local food and enjoy an ice-cold Heineken in the Regatta Village

#Monte Carlo, Monaco | Y.CO | Full service Luxury Yacht Company | Bringing together a dynamic and ever-evolving network of crews, captains, yards, clients, and thought leaders to keep excellence in yachting moving forward | Managing over 100 large yacht operations, from traditional operations to private fleets, special purpose yachts, exploration vessels and regatta racing teams | Yacht Charter | Luxury yachts | Crafting experiences | Waterdports experiences | Bringing on board specialist instructors | Moonen partnership | Moonen Martinique deal

#San Francisco, CA, USA | Ouster | High-performance lidar sensors and intelligent software solutions that bring Physical AI to life across the automotive, industrial, robotics, and smart infrastructure sectors

#Stockholm, Sweden | Candela | Designing and manufacturing the commercially available electric hydrofoil craft | Actively stabilized, computer-controlled C-FOIL system | Highly efficient direct-drive C-Pod motor family | Full carbon fiber design | Placing highly efficient permanent magnet motors in a pod beneath water eliminates the need for a mechanical transmission | Counter-rotating propellers are driven directly by motors, improving efficiency, reducing noise, and minimizing maintenance | Electric pod motor designed for high-speed foiling craft | Pod is seawater-cooled | C-Pod is fully electric and features a direct-drive system with no gears or transmission | Sealed motors require no oil or fluid changes, ensuring a truly hassle-free, low-cost operation over time | Flight controller powers electric hydrofoil boat | Submerged active hydrofoils lift hull out of water | Smart sensors and flight control software automatically adjust for a smooth, stable ride | Made from ultra-strong multiaxial carbon fiber, hydrofoils withstand impacts from floating debris | Lithium-ion batteries | Motors directly drive propellers | C-Pod MAX units in P-12 provide a combined 320 kW for takeoff | C-8 motor outputs approximately 80 kW | Counter-rotating propellers, the second propeller counteracts generating additional forward thrust instead of letting energy dissipate

#Pennsylvania, USA | Seakeeper | Marine motion control technology | Anti-roll gyro | No outside appendages | Flywheel spins at speeds up to 557 miles per hour generating enough force to stop a boat from rolling | Vacuum encapsulation enables flywheel to spin roughly three times faster, cuts flywheel weight by two-thirds, and halves power requirements | Critical components (flywheel, bearings, and motor) are sealed in a vacuum | Cooling system removes heat from within vacuum enclosure and dissipates it through a glycol/seawater combination | Active control works as smart technology, automatically gauging sea state and reacting instantaneously | Inside vacuum encapsulation, flywheel spins at speeds of up to 9,750 rpm | When boat rolls, gyro tilts fore and aft (precesses), producing powerful gyroscopic torque to port and starboard that counteracts boat roll | Seakeeper 40: yachts 85 feet and up (up to 115 tons), field replaceable bearings (FRB) | Seakeeper 26: vessels ~70-85 feet, up to ~75 tons | Seakeeper 18: crafted for ~60-75 foot boats, up to 56 tons | Seakeeper 3: Specially designed to eliminate roll on ~35-41 foot boats