Robotics Data, Simulation, and Field Automation Ecosystem Expands
로보틱스 | Wed Jul 22 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | 3 sources
Gritt commercialized solar installation robots, NVIDIA outlined physical AI simulation infrastructure, and Hugging Face released an open data collection system.
Analysis
[Gritt] exited stealth with solar power plant construction robot system and raised $32 million [1]
- Raised $26 million Series A led by Obvious Ventures
- Equipped off-the-shelf hardware with proprietary AI models
- Installed solar panels with sub-millimeter accuracy
- Secured 2.8GW solar installation contracts over 18 months
[NVIDIA] unveiled a GPU-accelerated simulation 3-computer paradigm for physical AI [2]
- Compared simulation engines including MuJoCo
- Isaac Sim
- Isaac Lab
- and Newton
- Three-tier structure of training/simulation/on-robot computers
- Generated photorealistic
- physically grounded data
- Produced thousands of hours of robot experience via GPU parallelization
[Hugging Face] released Grabette, an open robot manipulation data collection system based on a handheld gripper [3]
- Collected manipulation data with human hands without robots
- Based on Stanford's UMI (Universal Manipulation Interface)
- Integrated with LeRobot datasets and Hugging Face Hub
- Provided a browser-based processing pipeline