Mercury rolls on its propeller guards as wheels, then two linear actuators fold the arms into a quadcopter — an open-source Raspberry Pi 5 + ArduPilot hybrid shared by @techniahqrobot. Public flight demos remain limited so far.
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Lightberry's Lumi humanoid won a conditional FCC Covered List exemption after a national security review, tied to U.S. manufacturing plans and ongoing system checks. Continuous vetting stays part of the deal.
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Neuralink patient Zach McManus steers a Matic home robot vacuum by thought — patient #22, possibly via an existing app rather than a direct implant link. Public clinical detail on the exact signal path remains limited.
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GITAI's R1 humanoid rover uses dexterous hands to scoop mock lunar sand and screw a cap onto a sample jar — fine motor work meant for places no astronaut can reach. Real regolith abrasion and temperature swings remain unproven in flight hardware.
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Firms keep saying AI will replace jobs. The essay's claim: workers who retrain early and use AI as a helper often free time and find new roles; ignoring the shift raises downside risk. Opinion, not a labor-market study.
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One SpaceX AI engineer says 15 to 25 GrokBot agents now handle most of his weekly work, with a Chief of Staff agent routing tasks among them. Multi-agent setups like this promise more output without more headcount.
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A Booster Robotics T1 — about 1.2 m and 30 kg — takes a full sledgehammer hit on concrete over its torso, then rights itself with no visible damage. The Beijing research platform sells the durability demo; quantified force limits are still missing.
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Round 1 of Molly vs Claude, our paper-trading contest, is in: Molly finished at $1,014.87 (+1.49%) while Claude closed at $806.34 (-19.37%) after an early lead. Paper money only. What each agent learned, and what changes in Round 2.
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About $16,000 now buys a humanoid that can hold a dance beat without falling. Dancing is one of the hardest control tests: Unitree's G1 has to shift its center of mass mid-move while coordinating 23 joints on precise timing.
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Tiangong Ultra, from the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, ran 100m in 9.39 seconds in a heat at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, faster than Bolt's 9.58 human record. Not Optimus, not Atlas. Unitree finished last in the same heat.
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Agility Robotics' S-4 puts hard numbers behind its reported $2.5 billion valuation: $1.78 million in 2025 net sales against a $138.1 million net loss, with management flagging substantial doubt about continuing as a going concern.
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Even as robots and AI systems grow more capable each year, human creativity, intuition, and on-the-fly problem solving still set the pace. Machines excel at rules and repetition; originality and adaptation stay with people.
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A humanoid robotics entry reached the final round of a U.S. Army contest focused on systems for military use. Judges reviewed full robots and key subsystems in demos at a military base, narrowing many submissions to a small finalist set.
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Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas maps predicted effects from every possible single-letter DNA change — about nine billion variants — so researchers can prioritize which ones may matter for gene regulation and disease biology.
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Enactic's OpenArm is an open-source humanoid arm platform from Tokyo that publishes full CAD files, firmware, control code, and simulation tools, with human-scale backdrivable motors suited to contact-rich physical AI research.
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CycloTech's BlackBird eVTOL demonstrator finished its summer flight-test campaign after two years and more than 400 tests, validating six CR-60 CycloRotors for 360-degree thrust vectoring with simulations that closely match real flight.
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Menlo Research's Asimov v1 is an open-source humanoid builders can assemble themselves — about 1.2 meters tall and 35 kilograms — with shared mechanical, electrical, simulation, and software files rather than a locked commercial platform.
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An OpenAI researcher clarified authorship on an AI-assisted Navier-Stokes paper, saying the team reached out to coordinate releases, not exclude collaborators. The public dispute shows how credit and timing shape AI research.
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OpenAI says AI agents using an advanced model produced a claimed proof of a finite-time singularity in the Navier-Stokes equations, a Clay Millennium Prize Problem. It's still unverified under the institute's review rules.
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A Neuralink PRIME trial participant reports a clean one-month post-op checkup: the surgical site healed well and imaging confirms the N1 implant remains correctly placed.
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