Boston Dynamics Names Ex-Amazon AI Executive Rohit Prasad as CEO
Boston Dynamics named Rohit Prasad, Amazon's former Alexa and Nova AI chief, as its CEO effective October 7, 2026, as it pushes a Physical AI strategy.
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Toyota Plans 400,000 Humanoid Robots for Its Factories and a ¥1 Trillion-a-Year Rebuild
Toyota will field roughly 400,000 in-house robots across its plants, group companies and suppliers from 2028, funded by about ¥1 trillion a year in factory renewal.
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Ambarella X7 Adds a Standalone 2-5W CVflow Accelerator for Edge AI
Ambarella launched X7, its first standalone AI accelerator: a 2-5W CVflow co-processor bringing physical AI to existing Arm and x86 systems, sampling now.
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Agility's Digit 5 Wants to Work Beside People, With No Safety Cage in Between
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, a humanoid built to detect people and stop or sit still when they get close, and the company says it has $300 million in pre-orders.
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