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Alibaba’s Qwen released three AI models built to drive robots

Alibaba’s Qwen team published three separate AI models designed to give robots the ability to see, manipulate objects, and move through physical spaces. The models, called Qwen-RobotWorld, ...

Alibaba rolls out AI models for robots as race gets beyond chatbots

Alibaba Group (BABA) launched a new suite of AI models designed to help robots better understand and perform real-world tasks ...
VentureBeat

OpenVLA is an open-source generalist robotics model

Foundation models have made great advances in robotics, enabling the creation of vision-language-action (VLA) models that generalize to objects, scenes, and tasks beyond their training data. However, ...
MarketWatch

DeepRoute.ai Presents 40B Vision-Language-Action Foundation Model at NVIDIA GTC 2026, Accelerating Autonomous Driving at Scale

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. SAN JOSE, Calif., March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- At NVIDIA GTC 2026, DeepRoute.ai presented a comprehensive ...

Luxonis raises $14M to develop the vision layer for intelligent automation

Denver-based Luxonis Holding Corp. announced Thursday it raised $14 million in early-stage funding to transform industrial automation with cameras and machine vision, providing a perception layer for ...
AZoRobotics

What Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics Means for the Future of Autonomous Machines

Gemini Robotics advances robotics by combining multimodal reasoning and motor control, enabling robots to adapt and respond ...
Electronic Design

Vision-Language-Action Model Opens Level 4 Frontier for Autonomous Driving

Safely achieving end-to-end autonomous driving is the cornerstone of Level 4 autonomy and the primary reason it hasn’t been widely adopted. The main difference between Level 3 and Level 4 is the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Refining Vision-Language Models For Lithography Defect Detection

“Semiconductor lithography inspection requires reliable detection of small pattern defects such as bridge, burr, pinch, and contamination. In this study, we propose a two-stage vision-language ...
MediaPost

Google's Vision-Action-Language Robots Rely On Internet Search

Google DeepMind on Thursday unveiled two new artificial intelligence (AI) models that think before taking action. At least one former Google executive believes everything will tie into internet search ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Vision Language Models Come Rushing In

Just when you thought the pace of change of AI models couldn’t get any faster, it accelerates yet again. In the popular news media, the introduction of DeepSeek in January 2025 created a moment that ...
Forbes

Vision-Language Models And Agentic AI Are Rewriting The Rules Of Video Analytics

The global AI video analytics market is on track to reach $17 billion by 2031, growing at over 22% annually. Behind the numbers is a technological shift so fundamental that it is changing not just how ...