Daily Robot News
January 15, 2026
Summary
AI & Tech Giants
Google rolls out Personal Intelligence for Gemini across Gmail and Photos, Apple unveils Manzano multimodal model combining vision and image generation, Meta creates top-level Compute initiative promising tens of gigawatts for AI infrastructure
Autonomous Transport
New York Governor Hochul plans robotaxi legislation for entire state except NYC, Tesla CEO Musk announces Full Self-Driving becomes subscription-only soon, Caterpillar partners with NVIDIA for autonomous heavy machinery operations
Energy Transition
UK offshore wind auction delivers capacity 40% cheaper than gas prices, China and India see coal power generation fall for first time since 1970s, Type One Energy raises $87M from Bill Gates backers for stellarator fusion technology
In Other News
Scientists sequence 14,400-year-old woolly rhino genome from wolf stomach, researchers discover new diabetes type in newborns from single gene mutations, Verizon recovers from 10-hour nationwide outage