Isaac ROS 5.0
Isaac ROS 5.0 released with support for ROS Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04.
Robotics, hardware and chips
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Waymo Singapore
Waymo announced a partnership with Singapore's Ministry of Transport and Land Transport Authority to launch a fully autonomous, all-electric commercial ride-hailing service via the Waymo app in 2028, after serving more than 20 million fully autonomous rides.
GeForce NOW
Aniimo and 10 other titles are now streaming on GeForce NOW, including a path-tracing update for 007 First Light.
Vera CPU
NVIDIA's first custom CPU, Vera, is shipping at scale with 88 custom Olympus cores, 1.2TB/s memory bandwidth, and up to 1.8x faster per-core performance on agentic AI workloads. AWS received its first Vera CPU server and Vera Rubin GPU.
GeForce NOW Firefox
GeForce NOW now supports Firefox, delivering RTX-powered performance at up to 1440p and 120 fps for Ultimate members, plus 12 new games this week.
Robostral Navigate
Robostral Navigate is an 8B model that navigates robots with a single RGB camera, achieving 76.6% success on unseen R2R-CE benchmarks and beating the best depth or multi-camera system by 4.5 points.
Jalapeño inference chip
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first Intelligence Processor, co-developed from initial design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, with engineering samples running ML workloads in the lab at production target frequency and power, including GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark.
Strands Robots
Strands Robots is an Apache 2.0 SDK from AWS that exposes robot abstractions, simulation, and the LeRobot stack as AgentTools, with sim and hardware datasets sharing the same on-disk format.
Waymo Premier
Waymo Premier, an invite-only membership at $29.99 per month, offers priority pickups, 10% Waymo Cash back, early access, and five free cancellations per month.
Waymo Ojai
Waymo is welcoming its first public riders to the Ojai, a rider-first vehicle built on the Waymo Driver that has served over 20 million fully autonomous trips across 11+ cities.
Waymo Miami and Orlando
Waymo opened to everyone in Miami and Orlando after welcoming over 150,000 riders from the interest list, and is introducing highway travel in Miami.
Waze pothole pilot
Waymo and Waze launched a pilot that uses Waymo perception systems to detect potholes and shares the data through Waze for Cities, starting in five metro areas where Waymo has identified approximately 500 potholes.
LeRobot v0.5.0
LeRobot v0.5.0 adds full Unitree G1 humanoid support, Pi0-FAST autoregressive VLAs, Real-Time Chunking, streaming video encoding with zero wait between episodes, and EnvHub for loading simulation environments from the Hub.
DGX Spark and Reachy Mini
NVIDIA showed how to build a personal office robot agent using DGX Spark with Reachy Mini, combining NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano for reasoning, Nemotron Nano 2 VL for vision, and ElevenLabs for text-to-speech.
Waymo 2025 growth
Waymo served over 14 million trips in 2025, tripling public rides, and achieved a 10-fold reduction in serious injury crashes compared to human drivers.
Waymo freeways
Waymo begins freeway rides in San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix, and Los Angeles, expanding to Austin and Atlanta later.
Waymo safety audits
Waymo completed independent third-party audits of its remote assistance and safety case programs by TÜV SÜD, a first for autonomous driving.
Waymo all-weather Driver
Waymo is advancing its Driver for snowier weather, having amassed tens of thousands of miles in snowy conditions and using a 6th-generation Driver informed by over 100 million autonomous miles.
Waymo in London
Waymo intends to launch its autonomous ride-hailing service in London in 2026, with the Waymo Driver having driven over 100 million miles.
AMD GPU partnership
OpenAI and AMD announced a 6 gigawatt agreement across multiple generations of AMD Instinct GPUs, with the first 1 gigawatt deployment of MI450 GPUs starting in the second half of 2026.
Waymo for Business
Waymo for Business invites organizations to sign up after pilots, with over a million trips every month and nearly 1 in 6 local riders in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix using Waymo to commute to work or school.
Waymo in Nashville
Waymo will launch fully autonomous rides in Nashville in partnership with Lyft, starting operations in the coming months and opening to public riders next year.
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