Topic: Robotics
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Tesla begins paid robotaxi rides in Austin
Camera-only autonomy carries paying passengers with onboard safety monitors.
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Gemini Robotics puts frontier models in robot control
A multimodal model is adapted to drive physical manipulation.
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Waymo reaches 100,000 paid rides a week
Volume doubles in six months.
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Waymo opens San Francisco to everyone
Driverless service goes fully public in a dense US city.
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Figure raises $675M and partners with OpenAI
Frontier language models are pointed at humanoid robot control.
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California suspends Cruise’s robotaxi permits
Regulators act after the company withholds footage of a pedestrian injury.
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Tesla opens FSD Beta to all North American buyers
Supervised autonomy scales to hundreds of thousands of vehicles.
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Tesla shows the first Optimus prototype
A rough humanoid robot walks on stage at Tesla’s AI Day.
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Atlas completes a parkour course
Boston Dynamics’ humanoid runs, jumps and vaults through an obstacle course.
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Waymo opens driverless rides to the public
Phoenix riders can hail a vehicle with no human aboard.