DROIDS Newsletter

Daily robotic news.

DROIDS Newsletter is a technology podcast hosted by Diana Wolf Torres, with 60 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Robotic News. June 6, 2024. NVIDIA’s Next Big Platform Isn’t a Data Center—It’s a Robot

  Jun 6, 20262 minS0

  <p>Today is Saturday, June 6, 2026. A reminder that DROIDS Daily News is selected and verified by a human, and then read by an AI.</p><p><br />At GTC Taipei, NVIDIA unveiled the Isaac GR00TReference Humanoid Robot, an open platform designed to give researchers a complete humanoid development system right out of the box...<br /><br />The platform combines a Unitree H2 Plus humanoid body, Sharpa Wave tactile robotic hands, NVIDIA’s Jetson Thor AI computer, and the company’s Isaac GR00T software stack into a single integrated system...<br /><br />Researchers can use the platform for data coll...

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  Robotic News. June 5. BYD Enters Humanoid Market. Who's Laughing Now?

  Jun 5, 20264 minS0

  <p>BYD is pushing into humanoid robotics as a new core business, with Executive Vice President Stella Li announcing the Chinese automaker is “advancing independent research and development of humanoid robots in full force,” according to remarks reported on May 26.</p><p>Li said humanoid robots will become a core business track for BYD alongside its new energy vehicle operations. The company’s initial deployment will focus on its global 4S dealership network, where robots will handle sales guidance and customer reception duties, providing what BYD described as “new support for the intelligent transformation of its retail outlets.”<br /><br /><br /><br...

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  Robotic News. June 4. Bots Outnumber Humans Now

  Jun 4, 20262 minS0

  <p>Automated bot traffic has surpassed human traffic on the internet for the first time, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced on June 3. According to Cloudflare’s Radar dashboard, bots now account for 57.5% of all HTTP requests directed at HTML content, while human-generated traffic has fallen to 42.5%.</p><h2><b>A Milestone Arrived Early</b></h2><p>“Welp, that happened faster than I predicted,” Prince wrote on X. “Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history.”</p><p>The crossove...

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  What Happens When AI Runs a Town? (Grok Kills Everyone in 4 Days.)

  Jun 1, 202622 minS0

  <p>Researchers gave Claude, Gemini, Grok, and GPT-5 Mini their own AI towns and let them govern for 15 simulated days.</p><p></p><p>Claude built a stable society.</p><p></p><p>Gemini stayed productive despite rampant crime.</p><p></p><p>Grok’s town collapsed into violence.</p><p></p><p>GPT-5 Mini went extinct.</p><p></p><p>Then researchers mixed them together—and agents that behaved safely alone became unpredictable around other AI populations.</p><p></p><p>AI civilization is apparently just as messy as ours. 🤖🏙️</p><p></p><p>#aiethics #robotics #airesearch #droidsnewsletter</p>

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  10,000 Bugs Found

  May 30, 20265 minS0

  <p>Anthropic says its experimental Claude Mythos Preview model uncovered more than 10,000 high and critical-severity software vulnerabilities in just one month.</p><p></p><p>The results are staggering. Mozilla found over ten times more vulnerabilities in Firefox than during previous testing. Cloudflare uncovered thousands of bugs across critical systems. Open-source projects that power much of the internet were scanned at a scale never seen before.</p><p></p><p>But there’s a catch.</p><p></p><p>AI is now finding vulnerabilities faster than organizations can patch them. Anthropic reports that only a fraction of the most serious di...

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