Nadia Rahman

Nadia is Centre Robotics' platforms reporter, covering the companies and developer ecosystems shaping how robots are built.

AI Models

Nvidia's Isaac GR00T moves from research demo to developer platform

Nvidia's humanoid robotics foundation model has been talked about for two years. The new SDK release is the first time it looks like a serious platform play.

Nadia Rahman · 23 May · 3 min

Industrial

A new generation of "robot platform" companies are competing for the same job

Three different startups are pitching themselves as the operating-system layer for industrial robotics. Only one of them is likely to win the position.

Nadia Rahman · 8 May · 3 min

AI Models

Hugging Face launches a robotics model hub and the community responds fast

An open platform for sharing robot policy checkpoints has attracted 200 uploads in its first week.

Nadia Rahman · 2 May · 3 min

Industrial

The open-source robot operating system has reached a maturity level that is drawing serious industrial adoption.

Nadia Rahman · 30 Apr · 3 min

A Llama variant fine-tuned for embodied reasoning and robot control has landed. The open-source implications are significant.

Nadia Rahman · 29 Apr · 3 min

Why ROS 2 is quietly becoming the Linux of industrial robotics

AI Models

Meta releases a robotics-specific version of Llama and it changes the conversation