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Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits Read More »
Humanoid robots learned to walk years ago. The thing still tripping them up is the hand. 1X has given its NEO home robot new hands, and they are the most interesting thing about it. A robot can stride across a stage and still be useless in a kitchen. Lifting a wet glass takes precision, fast […]
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Home robots already walk. 1X’s new hands try to solve the part that actually matters Read More »
SpaceX lands its rockets on legs. Blue Origin uses a platform. China just caught one in a giant net. China has recovered the first stage of an orbital rocket for the first time. The milestone pulls it into a club with only two other members. On Friday, the booster of a Long March-10B lifted off […]
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China just caught a rocket in a net, and SpaceX should be watching Read More »
First the Royal Navy shoved a robot boat out of a transport plane at 1,300 feet. Then its maker became Europe’s newest defence unicorn. Kraken Technology Group, a British maker of uncrewed surface vessels, has raised $175m (€152.9m) in a Series B round. It values the company at more than $1bn. Kraken announced the raise […]
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From powerboat records to a $1bn war chest: meet Europe’s newest defence unicorn Read More »
Europe uses about a fifth of the world’s chips, but makes only a tenth of them. A three-year-old Munich startup thinks it can help close that gap, and Brussels has just backed the bet. QuantumDiamonds is a spin-out of the Technical University of Munich. It has raised €91M to scale a new way of finding […]
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A €91M bet on the diamond microscope that could be Europe’s next ASML Read More »
Two robots that look roughly like people just reached inside a live animal and removed an organ. No film studio staged the scene. It happened in a lab in California, and it is a first for medicine. Surgeons at the University of California San Diego used two teleoperated humanoid robots to remove the gallbladders from […]
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Humanoid robots just removed organs from live animals for the first time Read More »
Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed that Meta is exploring an AI cloud business. Selling access to computing power “makes sense”, he said, according to Bloomberg. The confirmation puts the CEO’s name to a plan first reported earlier this month. Meta had been said to be weighing a venture, dubbed Meta Compute, to rent out its spare AI […]
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Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute Read More »
For the first time in two years, the world bought fewer PCs. Global shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations fell 3.6% in the second quarter of 2026, to 65.7 million units, according to the analyst firm Omdia. The cause is not weak demand. It is the price of memory, and the reason it is soaring […]
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AI just shrank the PC market and is killing the cheap phone. Your gadgets are next Read More »
The company behind China’s Alipay just gave away an AI that builds a playable video game world and keeps it running for a full hour. Robbyant, the robotics arm of fintech giant Ant Group, open-sourced its LingBot-World 2.0 world model this week. It generates an interactive 3D world in real time, at 720p and 60 […]
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Alipay’s owner just open-sourced an entire robot brain in a single week Read More »
While the world watched the World Cup, robots played their own version in Incheon. RoboCup 2026 ran from 30 June to 6 July in Songdo, drawing teams from dozens of countries. When the whistle blew, one name was behind every winner. Teams using robots from Beijing’s Booster Robotics swept all three humanoid football divisions. The […]
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Robots swept RoboCup 2026, and they’re coming for the human World Cup by 2050 Read More »