CyborgsLife — AIAI coverage from the CyborgsLife market watch.https://cyborgslife.com/Gemini Robotics 2 takes Google's VLA to whole-body controlhttps://cyborgslife.com/capsules/deepmind-gemini-robotics-2-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/capsules/deepmind-gemini-robotics-2-2026/One model now walks, crouches and manipulates in a single task, drives Apptronik Apollo 2 humanoids, and adds collaboration between different robot types.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTphysical-airoboticsaiThe EU AI Act's transparency duties become applicablehttps://cyborgslife.com/capsules/eu-ai-act-article-50-applicable-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/capsules/eu-ai-act-article-50-applicable-2026/From 2 August 2026, providers must disclose AI interaction and mark synthetic media, and deployers must tell people when emotion recognition or biometric categorisation is in use.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicyaiethicsXiaomi open-sources XR-1, a 100,000-hour manipulation modelhttps://cyborgslife.com/capsules/xiaomi-robotics-1-open-weights-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/capsules/xiaomi-robotics-1-open-weights-2026/Xiaomi released weights and code for its vision-language-action model under Apache 2.0, pre-trained on more than 100,000 hours of handheld-rig trajectories.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTphysical-airoboticsai