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It’s Official: No Man Can Outrun Our Robot Overlords
Unitree’s "Superman" humanoid robot was recorded running at a top speed of 12.66 meters per second.
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Robotics & Automation News
Robots are moving out of factories and into warehouses, roads and homes. Here you'll find the latest on industrial automation, humanoids and the companies building them, pulled from tech and science desks so you can track a field that's finally hitting its stride.
Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks
Not a German cop show, but a pair of engineering firms aiming to feed 800 VDC to next-gen kit Siemens and fellow German engineering biz Reinhausen are…
Mathematical framework connects biological principles to manufacturable, adaptive materials
The new framework could streamline the design process of robotic grippers or aerospace components that exhibit complex behaviors found in nature. The …
Amazon Deals of the Day: Thinking of a Tablet for Your Kids? The Amazon Kids Tab 7 Is $40 Off
Plus, get half off a Shark robot vacuum and almost $100 off a Bluetti power station.
AirBuddy 3 now available with new Action HUD, widgets, Now Playing, deeper automation, more
Packing more than 150 new features and improvements, AirBuddy 3 is now available for Mac, further expanding the app’s utility beyond managing AirPods …
31 top deals from the Best Buy 60th Anniversary sale — I've found the biggest savings on laptops, TVs, Apple, appliances, headphones, and more
Best Buy is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a massive week-long tech sale, so I've looked through it and picked out the 31 best deals on laptops…
Five Questions About SpaceX’s Computer Chip Ambitions
SpaceX plans to build the largest chip manufacturing facility in the world. Here are some key questions about Terafab. To help you understand the tren…
NASA Challenge Tests Wheel Designs for Moon Base Mobility
As NASA prepares to establish the Moon Base, advancing surface mobility will be key to helping crews and robotic systems travel farther across the lun…
Gear up with the Bluetti Elite 100 V2 portable power station and a 100W solar panel for under $630
The Bluetti Elite 100 V2 portable power station with a 100W solar panel is on sale for $629 at Amazon, down from the list price of $1,099. That's a 43…
GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate
Copilot also wobbles as another outage tests developer patience Microsoft's GitHub source shack is reporting a 50 percent error rate on repository con…
How technology is changing marine engineering
Offshore roles are moving onshore as energy demand booms, creating new opportunities and transforming expectations. Rising demand and environmental co…
How to watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 18 online — stream cult comedy from anywhere
How to watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S18, as Dee and Dennis go back to school, Mac meets his match, Charlie takes up luting and Frank gets c…
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Exclusive: SoftBank Is Investing $200 Million in Autonomous Construction Startup Gravis Robotics
It’s the sole investor in what Gravis calls the largest Series A in construction robotics history. But plenty of competitors are rolling out robot excavators of their own.
The Download: dead robot friends and the “censorship-industrial complex”
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What happens…
Desktop UV printers and wild custom builds take over Open Sauce 2026 — $1,700 full-color printers, flash-cured resin, and a rideable speeder bike
If you want to see the bleeding edge of 3D printing tech, you go to FormNext in Frankfurt, Germany. If you want to see the latest in consumer electron…
Mammotions Luba 3 robot lawn mower is down to its best-ever price at Amazon — save over $800
As of Aug. 17, the Mammotion Luba 3 robot lawn mower with garage has hit its lowest price yet at Amazon of $2,448, a 26% discount off its list price. …
A French Start-Up, Inbolt, Makes Robots See, and Work, Better
Inbolt, a French start-up that sells robot vision systems, helped a Stellantis plant in Detroit become a top performer in the company.
What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?
When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a bee. Th…
Amazon deal alert: Get Eufy’s high-suction RoboVac 11S Max for over $100 off
Get the best robot vacuum deal. Save over $100 on the Eufy 11S Max at Amazon. SAVE $130: As of Aug. 17, the Eufy 11S Max is on sale for $169.99 at Ama…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman claim we've reached the AI singularity. But how would we even know that happened?
Scientists suggest it could take decades to achieve superintelligent AI, and doing so still depends on hypothetical breakthroughs. So why do some sugg…
Dario Amodei’s Unusually Personal Case for AI
Dario Amodei has spent years warning that advanced AI could be dangerous. In a rare exchange on X, Anthropic’s chief executive made a more demanding c…
3D-printed sound-powered jet engines propel micro drones — fliers are completely silent; researchers use ultrasonic frequencies to drive 12,000-RPM silent hovering fliers
A specially shaped 3D-printed resonator can make air shoot out of its nozzle and provide thrust when it hit with the proper frequency. While the proto…
Musk’s headaches: meet China’s corporate matrix challenging his business empire
US entrepreneur Elon Musk has long been highly respected in China. His business ideas – from electric cars to rockets, humanoid robots and brain impla…
The Airseekers Tron is an impressive mulching robot mower with a couple of frustrating flaws
The Airseekers Tron is a resilient mower that cuts and mulches, but it's a little rough around the edges. The only thing better than having a great ya…
Nvidia turns $5B Intel stock bet into $30B windfall — filing reveals new $21B SpaceX stake and complete exit from Arm stock
Nvidia quietly makes strategic and financial investments in clients, partners, and suppliers: CoreWeave, Coherent, Intel, Nokia, and SpaceX. Nvidia’s …
$1.6T JGB Repo Market Gets Onchain Push in Major MUFG Blockchain Experiment
Key Takeaways: The four MUFG group companies have started a proof-of-concept of onchain Japanese Government Bond repo transactions. The project will u…
First VisionQuest trailer brings back Ultron
Sizzle footage has floated around the internet, but thanks to D23, we now have our first proper look at VisionQuest, premiering October 14. When it pr…