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Please don't send me your robot music
I couldn't help but notice some people on social media dunking on a post from @nicksaraev, a self-described entrepreneur helper, who boldly proclaimed on X a few days ago: “I am not joking when I say this. Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming…
Robotic technology helps patients walk at £105m rehab centre
A new £105m NHS rehabilitation facility has started using robotic technology to help patients learn to walk again. The National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) at Stanford Hall, Nottinghamshire, which opened on 2 September, was created to help…
Robotic technology helps patients walk at £105m rehab centre
Sonia Kataria and Victoria Hicks, East Midlands A new £105m NHS rehabilitation facility has started using robotic technology to help patients learn to walk again. The National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) at Stanford Hall, Nottinghamshire…
Hands-On with First Humanoid Robot Surgeon
In a first-of-its-kind procedure at UC San Diego's Center for the Future of Surgery, an experienced surgeon tele-operated a humanoid robot to remove the gallbladder in a live pig. A second surgery utilized two humanoid robots working together to…
Ukraine's surprise robot offensive exposes a vulnerability in Putin's war machine
Ukraine's surprise robot-led offensive in the Donbas appears to have reversed more than a year of Russian territorial gains around Lyman. Dubbed 'Operation Vivaldi,' the offensive has retaken 176 square kilometers, with Ukrainian forces using…
Robotics startup has real human vs. robot cage match, California responds with cease-and-desist order - regulator threatens misdemeanor charges after YouTuber fights three robotic humanoids
A robotics startup just received a cease-and-desist letter from the state of California after it hosted a human vs. robot fight in San Francisco. REK founder and CEO Cix Liv shared the document on social media, with the California State Athletic…
China's Getting All the Cool Phone Tech. Where's My Robot Camera and Rear Screen?
Living in the US means getting a great range of cool phones, but some just don't make it onto store shelves over here. At Snapdragon Summit 2026, I handled a pair of phones that embody the injustice of not getting the cool devices more broadly…
AI robot company decommissioned its robots ‘Terminator-style' in a 75-ton vat of molten steel - Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested melting them, one robot held up a thumbs-up sign as it sank into molten metal
Figure, a U.S.-based robotics company, decommissioned its old AI robots by making them jump into a 75-ton furnace full of molten steel. According to the company, maintaining its F.02 fleet no longer made sense as its next-generation F.03 is…
10 Giant Robot Movies To Watch Before Sydney Sweeney's Gundam
Sydney Sweeney's upcoming Gundam movie is going to be fantastic, but these ten giant robot movies are the perfect films to watch before its 2027 release. The upcoming epic film is set to star Sweeney and Noah Centineo in a live-action adaptation of…
Rubber ducks and screwdrivers put dexterous new soft robotic gripper to the test
Professors at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA) have developed a soft robotic gripper capable not only of picking up and holding objects but also of manipulating and repositioning what…
'He's Gonna Get Jumped' - TV Host Boxes Multiple Robots At Once, Beats Them Back To Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley's AI robot takeover of humanity may be thwarted by the ancient art of throwing hands. TV show host Cyril Hanouna demonstrated as such during a segment on the French program Tout Beau Tout Neuf. Article continues below advertisement…
Hasta la vista, baby - Figure F.02 humanoid robots decommissioned, T2-style
Decommissioning humanoid robots that are packed with proprietary tech is a tricky thing – you want to make sure none of the expensive raw material goes to waste, but you also need to make sure no one else gets a hold of your tech. The…
Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for bio-inspired soft robotics maintenance in hybrid quantum-classical pipelines
Six months ago, I was deep into a rabbit hole studying knowledge distillation for a completely different reason — I wanted to compress a large vision transformer into something that could run on a microcontroller for a home automation…
Queen's University Belfast students head to US for Nasa competition
Could a robot designed by young engineering students from Northern Ireland end up on the Moon? A team, from Queen's University Belfast (QUB), are heading to Florida later this month to take part in a Nasa 'lunabotics' competition. Lunabotics is a…
AI was supposed to kill tech jobs. The data on job openings says otherwise.
Fears that AI will wipe out tech jobs aren't showing up in the data. Job openings at tech companies are climbing, while layoffs continue to ease after a brutal industry reset following the pandemic, according to new data from TrueUp, a hiring…
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