Step-by-step guides, technical tutorials, and use-case playbooks for building AI voice and chat agents — plus the latest AI news, model releases, funding, and policy developments.
From the blog
Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute dropped four notable papers at ICRA prep in April 2026, with two on long-horizon LLM-driven manipulation policies that beat RT-2 baselines.
Google DeepMind refreshed Gemini Robotics-ER on April 25, 2026 with stronger spatial reasoning evals and a public Robotics-ER endpoint via Vertex AI.
NVIDIA released GR00T N2 in late April 2026 with a new vision-language-action backbone trained on Cosmos-generated synthetic data and tighter Isaac Sim integration.
Skild AI closed a $200M round led by Lightspeed and SoftBank in April 2026 at a reported $4B valuation, doubling down on a single learned policy that runs across humanoids and.
A practical guide to training an AI voice agent on your specific business — system prompts, RAG over knowledge bases, and when to fine-tune.
Complete setup guide for connecting Twilio to an AI voice agent — SIP trunking, webhooks, streaming, and production hardening.
A complete observability stack for AI voice agents — distributed tracing across STT/LLM/TTS, metrics, logs, and SLO dashboards.
A technical breakdown of voice AI latency budgets — STT, LLM, TTS, network — and how to hit sub-second end-to-end response times.
Production webhook patterns for AI voice agents — idempotency keys, retry strategies, signature verification, and observability.
