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A developer explores five key lessons from the architecture of intelligence, focusing on how informed search algorithms use heuristics to make efficient decisions. The post explains concepts like greedy best-first search…
Amazon's lead UX Sound Designer for the Astro home robot reveals how the team chose to give the robot its own character rather than treating it as Alexa on wheels, shaping its emotional range and non-verbal communication…
China's Ministry of Commerce released a plan with 17 measures to boost AI integration into consumer goods and retail, aiming to embed AI in millions of households and shops through robots, smart products, and subsidies.
Korean semiconductor equipment maker HPSP has received purchase orders for its High-Pressure Hydrogen Annealing pilot equipment for Tesla's Terafab, a $119 billion semiconductor project in Texas. The facility aims to sup…
A developer implemented real-time LiDAR room detection on an Arduino UNO Q using Edge Impulse, achieving high-accuracy environment classification without SLAM or computer vision. The system uses a 2D dToF LiDAR to create…
Humanoid robots demonstrated at the Robotics Summit in Boston can mix cocktails, run marathons, and fold laundry, but most remain teleoperated or restricted to scripted tasks, according to AFP-JIJI reporting in The Japan…
A user's request to access a Reddit post about a suitcase robot with a gas sensor wired into an LLM sampler was blocked due to a network policy. Reddit prompted the user to log in or register with developer credentials t…
Humanoid robots can now mix cocktails, run marathons, and fold laundry, but they still cannot multitask or perform general-purpose tasks on command, according to experts at the Robotics Summit in Boston. Many robots are …
LG CNS and Doosan Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding on June 18, 2026, to collaborate on agentic AI, robotics, data centers, and cloud services. The partnership aims to integrate LG CNS's AgenticWorks and Physica…
LG CNS and Doosan Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday to form a broad technology alliance spanning agentic AI, robotics, data centers, and cloud computing. The partnership aims to combine LG CNS's digital…
Doosan Corp. and LG CNS signed an MOU to collaborate on data centers, hydrogen drone logistics, and AI and robotics transformation, aiming to combine Doosan's hydrogen fuel cells with LG CNS's cloud and AI platforms to e…
Researchers propose ImageWAM, a world action model that replaces video generation with image editing for robot control, achieving superior performance while reducing computational cost to 1/6 FLOPs and 1/4 latency of vid…
Y Combinator's Spring 2026 Demo Day featured standout startups including 9 Mothers, an AI-powered counter-drone system valued at over $200 million, and other companies in defense tech, robotics, AI infrastructure, and de…
Peter Harris published a Hackster.io project on June 12, 2026, demonstrating natural-language control of a Raspberry Pi 4 using Cursor AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The project uses Orbit OS, an Android-like e…
A developer added a hybrid post-quantum key exchange to the Rust-based VPN Qeli, combining X25519 and ML-KEM-768 to protect against 'harvest now, decrypt later' attacks. The handshake runs both algorithms and mixes their…
Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot autonomously lifted and carried a fully-loaded mini-fridge weighing over 100 pounds, despite being trained only on objects weighing 50-70 pounds. The feat was achieved through reinfo…
Solar power surpassed natural gas generation in California during 82% of days from January to May, marking the first time average solar output exceeded gas in the first five months of a year. The milestone comes as the s…
Physical AI lab automation is emerging as a critical investment thesis to address the structural crisis in chemistry and drug discovery, where human limitations in high-dimensional optimization, dark data from failed exp…
Apple is expected to have its biggest product year ever in 2027, with plans to launch six new iPhone models, AI wearables, a tabletop home hub with a robotic arm, and new M6-based devices, according to Bloomberg's Mark G…
Aether AI, founded by UC San Diego professor Biwei Huang, announced a $20 million seed round led by MPCi to develop Causal World Models for robotics and physical AI, aiming to replace statistical correlation with causal …