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AI News Digest - 2026-04-18

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Technology Review reported that companies and investors put $6.1 billion into humanoid robots in 2025, four times the 2024 figure, and documented industry progress including OpenAI restarting its robotics division to focus on humanoids, Covariant deploying its RFM-1 model in warehouses, and Agility Robotics' Digit being used by Amazon, Toyota, and GXO.

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Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, which improved robots' planning and perception capabilities and added reported ability to read measuring instruments.

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Alibaba released the open-source Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, which activated three of its 35 billion parameters at a time and outperformed Google's Gemma 4-31B on agentic coding and reasoning benchmarks.

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/17/1135416/how-robots-learn-brief-contemporary-history/

How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.

technologyreview.com

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https://the-decoder.com/google-deepminds-gemini-robotics-er-1-6-gives-robots-a-sharper-brain-for-planning-and-perception/

Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 gives robots a sharper brain for planning and perception

Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 helps robots plan and act more precisely, with a new knack for reading measuring instruments.

the-decoder.com

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https://the-decoder.com/alibabas-open-model-qwen3-6-leads-googles-gemma-4-across-agentic-coding-benchmarks/

Alibaba's open model Qwen3.6 leads Google's Gemma 4 across agentic coding benchmarks

Alibaba's new open-source Qwen3.6-35B-A3B activates just three of its 35 billion parameters at a time, yet beats Google's larger Gemma 4-31B on coding and reasoning benchmarks.

the-decoder.com

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