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AI robot for seniors can alert family after a call for help
If you have a parent or grandparent who wants to stay in their own home, you probably know the question that can sit quietly in the back of your mind: What happens if they fall and nobody realizes they need help? Tuya Smart thinks its small…
Robots Everywhere: Goldman Sachs Now Sees 6.5 Million Humanoid Robots by 2035
One number reframes the entire robotics conversation, and it did not come from a chipmaker or an automaker. It came from a bank. 6.5 million humanoid robot units shipped globally by 2035. That is the headline projection in Goldman Sachs ‘s…
3 major robot vacuum trends heading your way - including steam cleaning and drop-down suction boosters
The robot vacuum market is continuing to move at breakneck pace, with most brands releasing multiple models each year. Despite the proliferation of new vacs hitting the market, there are often clear feature trends that pop up across multiple brands…
By 2034 a Robot in the US Will Undercut Kenyan Garment Workers. That Is the Clock Africa's Industrial Strategy Is Running Against.
In 2034, it will be cheaper to produce a garment with a robot and 3D printing in the United States than to have tens of people make the same item in Kenya. That is the estimate of Dirk Willem te Velde, principal research fellow and director of the…
A factory robot arm priced at $65,000 carries a verified real-world bill of up to $195,000, and a single hour of unplanned downtime at scale can rival that entire deployment cost in one shift
The robot arm sits on the floor of a mid-size plant, weighing half a ton and moving in silence. The purchase order said $65,000. But that number was only the opening bid. By the time the machine is actually running, the real bill looks nothing like…
What will the world look like when robots are doing everything for us?
Breakfast With Robots by Joel Levy (Michael O'Mara Books £16.99, 224pp) If you're the sort of person who looks to the future with hope, and thinks that AI might be the solution to all our problems, then this might be the book for you. At the…
The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator's latest Demo Day, according to VCs
Another Y Combinator Demo Day took place on Thursday, but this batch looked a little different. While every cohort brings a fresh wave of founders, the startups presenting this week skewed far more toward deep tech than in past years. As we do…
Hackaday Links: September 13, 2026
We try to steer clear of politics and societal issues here at Hackaday, so a protest is not usually the sort of thing we'd cover. But we figure it's safe enough to bend the rules a bit when the ones doing the protesting happen to be robots. About…
Trump downplays AI development checks, says unwilling to cede edge to China
US President Donald Trump on Sunday played down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial intelligence, saying he worried about ceding America's edge over China in a global competition and that winning would help…
What happens when you tell Jensen Huang you're quitting Nvidia
As they were preparing to leave Nvidia, David Hoeller and Nikita Rudin anxiously hopped on a late-night call with their CEO. The two had spent years working on robotics at the chip giant, pushing the boundaries of simulation and helping pull off a…
In the Wild West of AI, Everybody Is Accusing Everybody Else of Theft
The AI boom has been fueled by the idea that all data is fair game, potential fodder for the training of new models. Little wonder then that ownership and intellectual property theft have become such sticky issues within the tech industry. On…
Insight Partners' Devin Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic
Devin Parekh has co-run the heavyweight investment firm Insight Partners for 26 years. Unlike many VCs who are loud on X and seem to live on podcasts, Parekh and Insight Partners tend to lay low. In this sit-down with TechCrunch at its StrictlyVC…
Building the future: UMass celebrates $125M Computer Science Laboratories
AMHERST — Inside a room at the Physical Computing Makerspace on the University of Massachusetts campus, a 3D printer is fabricating a chalk case that a teaching assistant will use to carry writing utensils. The case's design started as a…
AI Is reviving Chinese Marxist economics
ATHENS — As China embraced capitalism, its leading universities adopted mainstream Western textbooks to mold their students' thinking about the economy. “Most of my colleagues pay only lip service to Marxism,” an economics…
Transformers x Evangelion Synergenex Series Prime 02 Figure Unveiled
Posted in: Collectibles, Takara Tomy | Tagged: hasbro, transformers Hasbro has unveiled the Transformers Takara Tomy Synergenex Evangelion Prime 02 — a crossover figure inspired by Evangelion Unit-02, now available for pre-order on Hasbro…
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