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upi.com - Tae-gyu Kim - KB Financial unveils humanoid robot for senior care
KB Financial unveils humanoid robot for senior care
UPI

SEOUL, May 10 (UPI) -- South Korea's KB Financial Group unveiled a humanoid robot for senior care during AI EXPO Korea 2026 held in southern Seoul. During the three-day event last week, KB Financial showcased the humanoid robot, named 'GenP,' which…

techxplore.com - Seoul National University - Artificial muscle merges sensing and movement in one structure for humanoid robots
Artificial muscle merges sensing and movement in one structure for humanoid robots
Tech Xplore

A research team has developed an 'intelligent artificial muscle' capable of simultaneously performing sensing and actuation functions, inspired by biological muscle–tendon complexes. This artificial muscle, which embeds liquid metal channels…

marketbeat.com - Top Robotics Stocks To Follow Today - May 10th
Top Robotics Stocks To Follow Today - May 10th
MarketBeat

5 Stocks Racing Ahead as AI Supercharges Robotics Teradyne, Ouster, Serve Robotics, PROCEPT BioRobotics, Richtech Robotics, MDA Space, and Mobilicom are the seven Robotics stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool.

scroll.in - Tabassum Barnagarwala - Indian hospitals are pushing robotic surgery, but do you really need it?
Indian hospitals are pushing robotic surgery, but do you really need it?
Scroll.in

On the morning of March 27, a group of eager onlookers gathered around a robot and a computer screen at a convention centre in Mumbai. Among them was Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. They watched as a doctor, wearing polarised 3D…

t3.com - Bethan Morgan - I've been waiting months for Ecovacs first-ever robot pool cleaner, and it's finally here
I've been waiting months for Ecovacs first-ever robot pool cleaner, and it's finally here
T3

Ecovacs has launched its first-ever robot pool cleaner to the US market. The Ecovacs Ultramarine P1 is a beginner-friendly robot pool cleaner with impressive suction, marine-grade design and smart navigation. After announcing its first foray into…

futurism.com - Frank Landymore - Man Who Invented Roomba Moves Into Household Demon Market
Man Who Invented Roomba Moves Into Household Demon Market
Futurism

Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Colin Angle, the inventor of the iconic Roomba automated vacuum, is back with another robot that hangs around the house. This time it's not a roaming vacuum cleaner, though, but a…

tomshardware.com - Etiido Uko - MIT researchers revive 40-year-old triangular zipper concept now made possible by 3D printing, creates shape-shifting robots and deployable structures - 3D-printed 'Y-Zipper' turns floppy tentacles into rigid beams in seconds
MIT researchers revive 40-year-old triangular zipper concept now made possible by 3D printing, creates shape-shifting robots and deployable structures - 3D-printed 'Y-Zipper' turns floppy tentacles into rigid beams in seconds
Tom's Hardware

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a three-sided zipper that transforms 3D-printed floppy structures into rigid, load-bearing forms in seconds. The mechanism, called the…

scmp.com - Liu Zhen - Underwater anti-mine technology takes centre stage at Chinese defence show
Underwater anti-mine technology takes centre stage at Chinese defence show
South China Morning Post

China unveiled some of its most advanced military technology, including robot dogs and an AI-enabled underwater system that can neutralise mines, at a defence expo. Autonomous underwater vehicles designed to be launched by submarine were one of the…

fortune.com - Fortune Editors - Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says 2026 is the year AI agents go mainstream-and the smartphone's and the smartphone's reign as your primary device is ending
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says 2026 is the year AI agents go mainstream-and the smartphone's and the smartphone's reign as your primary device is ending
Fortune

You may not have heard of Qualcomm, but you have definitely used the company's products. Many major smart device manufacturers use Qualcomm's technology, ranging from physical chips in our phones to the 4G, 5G, and soon, 6G networks that connect…

bloomberg.com - Ike Swetlitz - Why Brain Implants Are More Than a Sci-Fi Fantasy
Why Brain Implants Are More Than a Sci-Fi Fantasy
Bloomberg

Science fiction has long imagined a world where our brains interact with machines to restore and augment our abilities — think of the neural implants that connected to Geordi La Forge's visor in Star Trek or allowed Alex Murphy to be reborn…

theatlantic.com - Xochitl Gonzalez - Save the Taxi Drivers
Save the Taxi Drivers
The Atlantic

In the beginning, God created Man and Man created cities. And from these cities sprang forth a service to cart Man around: the taxi. And it was good. So good that, over centuries, it barely changed. Visitors to ancient Rome could hail a cisium. In…

hackaday.com - Tom Nardi - Hackaday Links: May 10, 2026
Hackaday Links: May 10, 2026
Hackaday

While Artemis II was primarily a demonstration flight of the architecture NASA plans to use for future lunar missions, it was also an excellent excuse for the crew to snap some photos of the Moon and Earth with the benefit of modern camera…

upi.com - Sony, TSMC to jointly develop image sensors for AI era
Sony, TSMC to jointly develop image sensors for AI era
UPI

May 9 (Asia Today) -- Japanese electronics company Sony Group and Taiwanese chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. are moving to deepen cooperation in next-generation image sensor development and manufacturing, as competition intensifies…

cmu.edu - NVIDIA Founder, CEO Jensen Huang to Carnegie Mellon University Graduates: 'Shape What Comes Next'
NVIDIA Founder, CEO Jensen Huang to Carnegie Mellon University Graduates: 'Shape What Comes Next'
Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science

May 10, 2026 Media Inquiries Cassia Crogan University Communications & Marketing Carnegie Mellon University conferred more than 5,800 undergraduate and graduate degrees at its 128th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 10. Bridging the gap between…

businessinsider.com - Brent D. Griffiths - A future without work? What Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sam Altman, and others in AI are saying about the future.
A future without work? What Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sam Altman, and others in AI are saying about the future.
Business Insider

Is this heaven? No, this is the AI future — well, at least the one where we're not all dead. Wall Street spent most of 2025 worrying about the AI bubble, but increasingly, those in and around Big Tech and AI are discussing a scenario where…

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