A developer argues that AI coding agents have shifted software development's bottleneck from code production to verification, drawing a parallel to the Toyota Production System's Jidoka principle of s…
CISA added CVE-2026-49869, a CVSS 10.0 authentication bypass in Kestra OSS, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 2, 2026, after real-world attacks deploying crypto miners and ha…
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, a general-purpose humanoid robot that uses proprietary AI algorithms and vision sensors to detect nearby humans and autonomously avoid, stop, or assume a seated posi…
A developer built an Apify Actor that scrapes PR TIMES, Japan's largest press-release distribution platform, into LLM-ready JSON records containing title, company, timestamp, category, cleaned body te…
Preferred Networks, the Tokyo AI startup valued at roughly $2 billion, is opening its books to foreign investors for the first time and eyeing an IPO in three to five years to fund mass production of …
Rudy Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Inbolt, will argue at RoboBusiness on Oct. 20-21 in Santa Clara, Calif., that physical AI's main challenge is deployment, not data, citing deployments across over 100…
Japan should focus on edge AI for factory floors rather than large data centers, according to a commentary highlighting deployments at Toyota, FANUC, and Musashi Seimitsu. Toyota's casting plant uses …
Comma AI is promoting its comma four windshield-mounted computer, which runs the open-source openpilot software to provide hands-free driving for more than 325 vehicles across 27 brands, without requi…
Agility Robotics CTO Pras Velagapudi said the company is betting on factory floors as the proving ground for humanoid robots, citing a massive labor shortage and repetitive, dangerous tasks. Agility h…
State-funded AI companion robots, such as Intuition Robotics' ElliQ, are being distributed to older adults in the U.S. and Australia to combat loneliness, raising concerns about the substitution of hu…
CleanTechnica advises automakers like Honda, Toyota, GM, Ford, and Nissan to stop investing in conventional gas and diesel engines and traditional hybrids, citing Europe's 20% excess capacity (5.4 mil…
Chinese automakers are bypassing US tariffs by targeting Southeast Asia and Latin America, with record EV imports and local factory construction, threatening legacy automakers' survival. Google's anal…
Toyota's plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) sales rose nearly 190 percent in July after the automaker expanded availability from 12 states to nationwide, according to new sales data. Sierra Club Clean Tran…
Roboflow published a tutorial on verifying torque marks with computer vision, using its RF-DETR segmentation model and a Vision-Language Model to automate inspection. The workflow detects paint seals …
Integral AI, a robotics AI startup founded by former Google researchers Jad Tarifi and Nima Asgharbeygi, has shut down after raising only $4.7M to $5.5M in seed funding, highlighting a financing gap f…
Deutsche Bank initiated coverage of Momenta with a 'Buy' rating and a target price of HK$400 per share, citing the Chinese firm's 64.5% market share in the urban NOA segment and partnerships with nine…
Faulty backup camera systems have triggered recalls of approximately 21 million vehicles in the US since the government mandated the technology eight years ago, including nearly 6 million in the last …
Hybrid cars, led by the Toyota RAV4, have become the hottest segment in the global new car market, accounting for about 1 in 7 new cars sold in the US last year, up from less than 3 percent in 2020, a…
Australia's plug-in vehicle penetration rate fell to approximately 31% in July 2026, with 33,869 plug-in vehicles sold out of almost 108,000 total sales, down from a record 36% in June, according to C…
The Pentagon's missile buildup is driving startups like Machina, Hadrian, and Freeform to apply AI, robotics, and automated production to aerospace and defense manufacturing, challenging traditional f…