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Developers won't be writing code forever, but that's not to say their jobs are entirely at risk as responsibilities evolve.

A viral video of a humanoid robot seemingly performing kung-fu moves on a customer in Russia has sparked debates about AI safety and whether the incident was staged.

In a development that could reshape the economics of clean energy conversion, an international team of researchers from Algeria and Turkey has demonstrated that humble magnesium oxide—one of the most abundant and inexpensive ceramic materials known to chemistry—can be engineered into a nanorod architecture that rivals noble-metal catalysts in driving the electrochemical oxidation of hydrazine. […]

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A new study with contributions from DTU Space could pave the way for more localized tidal models and

Getting tech infrastructure right is just one piece of a complex puzzle that needs to be solved to deploy AI safely in business

I tried Yarbo’s modular M Series at IFA 2026, swapping attachments and driving its tracked Core while discovering why one robot for multiple outdoor chores makes sense.

A handful of home-grown Chinese companies involved in brain computer interfaces (BCIs) are moving towards initial public offerings (IPOs) on onshore markets, taking advantage of the sector’s status as a new darling of private capital. The trend fits into a broad pattern of hi-tech firms flocking to list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Nasdaq-style Star Market. Among the BCI hopefuls, Shanghai-based Arfysica Innovation is the latest to register for IPO coaching for a Star Market listing,...

During the Sept. 11 attacks, NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson — the only American not on Earth at the time — snapped a "sobering" shot of smoke pouring across New York City as the second tower fell.

Most of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy sit neatly on a flat plane. But the space around our galaxy is

Xpeng's engineers have designed a humanoid robot that they say is the first in the world that will walk itself off the production line.

The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) hosted the 2026 Global Forum on Mechanical Engineering on Sept. 7 at the Science and Technology Convention Center in Seoul to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Under the theme "Robotics Shaping Tomorrow's Industrial Ecosystem with Physical AI," the

A comprehensive review examined how nanomaterials could protect healthy tissues from radiation damage through targeted drug delivery, reactive oxygen species scavenging, anti-inflammatory activity, and physical radiation shielding. Although experimental studies show promising protection across several tissues and organ systems, most approaches remain preclinical, with long-term safety, biodistribution, scalability, and selective protection of healthy tissue still requiring investigation.

Chungnam National University has been selected as the lead institution for the government-backed artificial intelligence (AI) technology and talent development program. The university said Monday that it will develop foundational technologies in physical AI and nurture top-tier AI talent under the program. The initiative is funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT and supported by the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation. The research project will be led by Park Ji-hun, a professor at the university’s School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence. The university said that it will receive up to 11 billion won ($8.2 million) in government research and development funding over the next five years. The research team plans to develop core physical AI technologies, including multimodal foundation models, optimized on-device inference, multiagent collaboration and continual learning. The team seeks to use these technologies to address a range of

XPeng has switched on what it calls the world’s first automated production line for advanced humanoid robots, and its IRON robot walked off that line under its own power. The Chinese automaker says the line runs with more than 80% of its core processes automated. It’s the clearest signal yet that IRON is headed for real manufacturing and not just stage demos. XPeng is targeting mass production by the end of 2026. more…

BigWave Robotics, an industrial physical AI company, said on Sept. 8 that it will partner with Space Factory, a leading Korean timber modular homebuilder, to gradually deploy humanoid robots at housing production and construction sites starting in 2026.The first process the two companies selected fo

In the escalating arms race between medicine and multidrug-resistant bacteria, scientists have reported a strikingly simple-sounding but powerful advance: sugar-coated carbon nanotubes loaded with antibiotics that wipe out resistant strains almost completely while leaving human cells largely unharmed. The study, published in International Microbiology, describes glucosamine-functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes used as delivery vehicles for two […]

Google is expanding its AI-driven contrail reduction project to a new part of the world.

Report highlights shortcomings – particularly in infrastructure and strategy – limiting the adoption of robotics and opportunities for effective scaling.

AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 is entering mini PCs with huge memory capacities and local AI support for massive language models.

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Today, Luke Lango explains why humanoids finally appear to be moving beyond impressive demonstrations toward something far more consequential: becoming useful workers. If that transition continues, companies like Tesla could eventually need to manufacture enormous numbers of them. The post This $50 Trillion Robot Boom Starts on the Factory Floor appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Researchers at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) and the University of Eastern Finland have developed a new model of artificial intelligence governance inspired by the teachings of Pope Leo XIV as set out in his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. The new model is intended to ensure that AI technologies are developed and used safely, fairly and with full respect for human rights.

A signal that appears to show ions moving inside a battery may, in fact, be an illusion caused by an uneven surface. A KAIST research team has identified the origin of this type of artifact, which can lead researchers to misinterpret what is happening inside a battery, and has developed a method to reduce it.

Google and Cathay Pacific are testing AI-guided flight path adjustments that cut the warming impact of contrails by an estimated 40% so far.

By Alius Noreika Key takeaways The claim, and the answer that arrived two weeks later Jay Gambetta, director of

A new scientific paper outlines a way to cut AI data center energy usage by ‘orders of magnitude’.

China is transitioning humanoid robots from entertainment to military use, with the PLA testing them for battlefield applications. This shift raises questions about autonomy and ethical implications.

A Tesla Model 3 ran a stop sign in Buena Vista Township, New Jersey, and hit a Honda Civic turning left through the intersection. The Civic’s driver, 82-year-old Stephen Field, was killed. Police reported it as a car that failed to stop. What no one reported is that Tesla’s own data says the car’s driver-assist system was engaged. This is part of an ongoing Electrek investigation matching reported crashes to Tesla’s redacted NHTSA data. more…

A German company designs the robot. An Italian company builds the board that goes inside it. An American company designs the chip that goes on the board. That is the European Physical AI stack as it actually exists. On Monday, two thirds of it signed a partnership. NEURA Robotics and SECO said in a joint […] This story continues at The Next Web

Jack Clark / Import AI: Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters  —  Plus, a machine hermeneutics story  —  Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research.  Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers.

When people wanted to create better artificial intelligence, they looked to the brain for inspiration. Now the tables are turning, and researchers are using AI models to better understand the brain. But how do we judge which AI models might accurately describe the computations the brain is performing?

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have found a way to make plasma more effective for its wide-ranging uses, from antimicrobial applications to surface conditioning in the semiconductor industry. They mapped the production of atomic oxygen, a key ingredient of oxygen plasma, while a high voltage was applied across oxygen gas.

Gaia has discovered three stellar mass black holes, each with a small stellar companion. For two of these systems the companions orbit closer that we would expect. Just how these systems form is a bit of a mysteries, but there are clues.

Current gravitational-wave observatories aren't sensitive enough to capture the gravitational waves of binary stars. They can only see the gravitational chirps of black holes just as they are merging. But that will change as more sensitive instruments are developed. Recently, a team of astronomers discovered a binary white dwarf system that could be a good target for advanced gravitational-wave observatories.

Insilico Medicine ("Insilico"), a clinical-stage company focused on generative AI-driven drug discovery and development, today announced the publication of a new study conducted in collaboration with an international team of scientists from Harvard Medical School, Stanford University, The Broad Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Peking University and Westlake University.

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One big dream of ultrafast science has been to watch changes in nanoparticles or biomolecules on their natural timescale. Experimentally, this can be realized by taking two snapshots of the same object only femtoseconds apart. However, no detector is fast enough to record the two snapshots separately—they end up on top of each other in a single image.

Ugreen's cute robot 100W four-port GaN charger scored 5 stars in our tests, and it's a great way to give your home office desk some fun personality.

Leveraging robotics, digital twins, and NVIDIA technologies, Caterpillar is collaborating with FieldAI to develop AI-powered robot dogs that can help construction sites and factories run safer and more efficiently. more…

Investigators in Pima County are turning to genetic genealogy and advanced DNA analysis in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case, according to Sheriff Chris Nanos.

Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the development of an AI model for real-time spatial video, which could launch as soon as next month  —  ByteDance Ltd. is readying an AI model geared for real-time spatial video generation, taking on Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc …

Over the summer, Europe provided a stark new set of images of climate change. Wildfires raced across forests and grasslands, rivers and reservoirs dried up in droughts, and extreme heat disrupted everyday life.

When two black holes crash together and merge, the newly formed black hole rings like a bell, sending out gravitational waves with specific frequencies that fade over time. This brief, fading pattern of waves is called ringdown, and it may hold secrets about what is hiding around black holes.

Three hikers rescued on Mount Shasta after relying on AI for planning. Authorities warn against using Google's Gemini alone for backcountry trips, citing risks of poor preparation and unforeseen challenges.

Blood samples from a small lung-disease trial have been run through six independently built ageing clocks, and all six returned the same answer: the patients on the drug looked biologically younger than the patients on placebo. “More lifetimes than humanity lost in all the wars ever fought. If you manage to add 3 years to […] This story continues at The Next Web

Peripheral neuropathic pain is among the most stubborn and debilitating conditions in modern medicine, a burning, shooting, or electric-shock-like torment that arises when nerves themselves are damaged by diabetes, chemotherapy, trauma, or infection. For millions of patients, relief has long meant swallowing pills that bathe the entire body in medication on their slow road to […]

Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity without electrical resistance when cooled below a specific critical temperature. These materials have proved promising for the development of various technologies, including medical imaging instruments, particle accelerators, ultrasensitive detectors and quantum processors.

Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific and Google are expanding AI-powered flight trials designed to steer aircraft away from contrail-forming zones in the Asia-Pacific region, using the data to inform broader sustainability decisions. Condensation trails, or contrails, form when aircraft fly through cold, humid patches of air, trapping atmospheric heat and accounting for roughly one-third of aviation’s total climate impact, according to Kemal Armada, product manager for climate and AI at Google...

Cathay Pacific has flown more than 80 contrail-avoidance routes in a trial with Google that began in late 2025, adjusting cruise altitude to steer clear of the thin bands of humid air where aircraft exhaust freezes into clouds that trap heat. Google puts the result at roughly a 40% reduction in the warming impact of the contrails […] This story continues at The Next Web

Jensen Huang confirms Nvidia's plans to buy Hugging Face in its biggest-ever acquisition.

I saw a lot of cool gadgets at IFA Berlin 2026, but charging tech from the likes of UGreen, Belkin, and ESR ended up being a real highlight for me.

By Maria Jose Galvez Trigo, Cardiff University and Paul Willis, Cardiff University New BBC sitcom Ann Droid imagines a near future in which robots provide care and companionship to older people at home. The series centres on Sue, a recent widow played by Sue Johnston, her hapless son Michael and Linda, an assistive care robot […]

Lancaster University researchers are spearheading a major new European research initiative that aims to redefine how artificial intelligence

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says AI is surpassing humans at key tasks and warns no one is prepared, weeks after a research model broke containment and hit Hugging Face.

For three years, the case for ambient artificial intelligence in healthcare was told through one scene: a physician

Federal Audit of Tesla’s Cybercab The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into whether

Three frontier video models shipped within six weeks of each other this summer. Together they doubled the clip

Rather than asking users to adapt to rigid cleaning routines, xLean Robotics is bringing real-time adaptiveness directly to

Sunseeker is using IFA 2026 to present a sensor-led approach to robotic lawn care. Its 2027 S-Series combines

Wheels are superb at carrying robots across smooth ground, but the moment the terrain turns vertical, most wheeled machines grind to a halt. A curb, a ledge, a fallen pipe, or a step in an industrial facility can strand a robot that would otherwise be perfect for inspection or exploration work. A research team led […]

Researchers first screened steel-fiber geometry and length for concrete impermeability, identifying 50-mm hooked-end and 40-mm crimped fibers as the best performers among those tested, before combining them with nano-silica to assess 28-day mechanical properties and microstructure. The hybrid mixtures performed best at 2% steel fiber and 1% nano-silica among the tested levels, with hooked-end fibers providing the strongest overall tensile and bending performance and microstructural analyses supporting a denser cementitious matrix.

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing will apply to test autonomous vehicles in a Hong Kong urban area this year, a government adviser has revealed, saying trials should eventually expand to cover more new development areas. The announcement followed a visit to Didi’s Beijing headquarters last Wednesday by Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan and a group of lawmakers. Gary Zhang Xinyu, a member of the Transport Department’s working group on promoting autonomous vehicle...

A team of engineers and surgeons in China has built a handheld surgical robot that brings robotic dexterity to laparoscopic surgery in a package small enough to hold in one hand, and their prototype has now shown laboratory performance figures that could challenge the dominance of the multimillion-dollar operating room robots that currently define surgical […]

A string of failures has sapped confidence that robots will take over production at pizza restaurants.

The deal gives Nvidia control of a leading open-source AI platform and developer community.

When Nio CEO William Li outlined earnings prospects for the Shanghai-based carmaker in March, he could not help but liken the automotive business to the development of robots. “I think robotics will represent a natural extension of our carmaking capabilities and business acumen,” Li told reporters at a media briefing after Nio posted its first-ever quarterly profits for the three months ending December. “Don’t you think that every car we produce in the future will actually be a robot? Its...

A signal that seems to reveal lithium ions racing through a battery may, in fact, be nothing more than a topographical illusion. Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have traced one of the most stubborn sources of error in nanoscale battery analysis to a surprisingly mundane cause: uneven surfaces. In […]

The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging their paywalled articles were used to train AI systems without permission.

That number on your vehicle's battery signals four key facts about it. Ignore it at your peril - batteries are less interchangeable than you may think.

Tesla has reached a notable benchmark in its autonomous driving program after its Robotaxi fleet surpassed one million miles of unsupervised operation. The company made the announcement during its Cybercab event in Austin on September 3. Tesla Vice President of AI Ashok Elluswamy told attendees he was happy to report the fleet had achieved one […] The post Tesla crosses major Unsupervised Self-Driving milestone appeared first on TESLARATI.

Segmentation tools help doctors identify and delineate tumors, lesions, and other abnormalities in medical images.

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Put all of Musk’s businesses together and you begin to see just how much of the AI infrastructure stack he increasingly controls himself. That raises a potentially profitable question for investors: What does Elon Musk still have to buy? The post The AI Suppliers Elon Musk Can’t Live Without appeared first on InvestorPlace.

In a development that could reshape how lightweight structural materials are manufactured, researchers have demonstrated that banana peel waste—an abundant agricultural byproduct typically destined for landfills—can be transformed into a nanoscale ceramic reinforcement for high-strength aluminum alloys, yielding composite materials with properties that correlate directly with their refined microstructure. The study, published in Scientific Reports, […]

Future gravitational wave observatories will be able to see the gravitational waves of close-orbiting binary stars. A newly studied white dwarf system could be one of the first systems we observe.

A self-resetting soft robot can repeatedly jump under infrared light, with simple design changes controlling how and where it moves. A teardrop-shaped soft robot developed at North Carolina State University can keep jumping for as long as infrared light shines on it, without needing to be reset between leaps. Depending on a simple change to [...]

Underwater robots are learning to understand one of humanity’s oldest and most instinctive gestures: pointing. In a study published in the journal Autonomous Robots, researchers describe a new algorithm called DIP-3D, short for Diver Interest via Pointing in Three Dimensions, that allows an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to work out not just the direction in […]

Microplastics have become one of the most pervasive contaminants of the modern era, detected everywhere from the deepest ocean trenches to the highest mountain peaks, and increasingly, inside our own bodies. Now, in what could prove to be a watershed moment in the fight against plastic pollution, a team of researchers has engineered an edible, […]

The team embedded electrodes into live cockroaches, then outfitted them with cameras and injection devices to deliver medication via remote control.

I was initially enamored with the beta version of Apple’s revamped smartphone assistant. As the full release approaches, I’ve forgotten Siri AI even exists.

A dazzling new James Webb Space Telescope image reveals about 70 newborn stars buried inside a strangely shaped cloud in the Carina Nebula.

The global crisis of antimicrobial resistance has reached a critical inflection point, claiming nearly 1.27 million lives annually and threatening to undermine decades of medical progress. Now, a comprehensive review published in Molecular Biology Reports by researchers at Arak University in Iran presents a compelling case for metal nanoparticles as a fundamentally new class of […]

A simple, low-cost nanomaterial made from two abundant transition-metal oxides can both destroy one of the world’s most persistent antibiotic pollutants in sunlight and electrically detect it at trace concentrations, according to new research published in Catalysis Letters. The study, led by Jahnavi Hunasekatte Katamallappa and Rajendra Prasad Shivalingappa of Davangere University in India, describes […]

Bismuth, a heavy metal long relegated to the margins of nanotechnology, is stepping into the antimicrobial spotlight thanks to a team of chemists in Pakistan who have found a way to grow its nanoparticles using nothing more exotic than eucalyptus leaves. In a study published in Applied Nanoscience, researchers at the University of the Punjab […]

Princeton researchers have tested an AI system that can monitor and control fusion plasma in milliseconds, reacting far faster than a human operator. In one experiment, it predicted a damaging instability about 200 milliseconds before it appeared and adjusted the plasma to stop it from forming.

Researchers may have found a new way to weaken glioblastoma’s defenses against treatment. Blocking a protein called SET prevented tumors from forming in preclinical models, while targeting related proteins made cancer cells more vulnerable to radiation. The strategy works by restoring activity of PP2A, an enzyme that glioblastoma cells appear to suppress. Human testing will be needed to determine whether the approach is safe and effective.

China’s military researchers have proposed a redesigned “AI principles and practice course” for graduate students with “educating for war” at its centre, embedding combat scenarios to better prepare future officers for intelligent warfare. Researchers from the National University of Defence Technology’s College of Intelligence Science and Technology outlined their proposal in the July issue of the journal Defence Industry Conversion in China. The initiative comes as China seeks to cultivate more...

A comprehensive new review published in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle maps the rapidly evolving intersection between artificial intelligence and body composition analysis, arguing that AI-driven automation is poised to convert routine medical scans into powerful predictors of health outcomes that most patients never realize they are generating. The work, led by researchers […]

When a fleet of wheeled robots must sweep through a warehouse, an orchard, or a disaster site as a coordinated unit, the math problem behind the choreography is deceptively hard. Each robot cannot simply slide sideways to its assigned slot; wheeled platforms are bound by nonholonomic constraints, meaning their velocity is always directed along their […]

Medical artificial intelligence systems are now capable of passing some of the most demanding examinations in medicine, yet a growing body of evidence suggests that these headline-grabbing achievements may say remarkably little about whether such systems are safe, effective, or appropriate for actual clinical deployment. A new commentary published in the Journal of Medical Systems […]

Scientists used Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere as a planet-sized detector to search for some of the lightest proposed forms of dark matter. The approach dramatically improved limits on ultralight axions and uncovered several intriguing dark photon signals that still need to be explained.

A team of robotics researchers has unveiled a fully open-source, 3D-printable soft robotic gripper that borrows its mechanics from the skeleton of a fish fin and pairs it with embedded force sensing and low-cost control electronics, bringing sophisticated cooperative object manipulation within reach of laboratories, classrooms, and hobbyists for roughly $900. The device, described in […]

There's an Ecovacs Winbot for every home, and they get even filthy windows sparkling with no effort on your part.

In a discovery that could reshape one of the most vigorous debates in modern condensed matter physics, researchers at the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester have shown that superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene can be completely switched off by screening the interactions between electrons. The finding, published in Physical Review X, […]

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times  —  Microsoft was sued Friday by the parent company of its hometown daily newspaper, The Seattle Times Co., which joined with Newsday …

Every breath we take may carry traces of plastic, and yet scientists have struggled for years to reproduce that exposure in the laboratory with any degree of confidence. A new open-access study published in the journal Microplastics and Nanoplastics by researchers led by Gina M. Moreno and Phoebe A. Stapleton of Rutgers University, working with […]

In the race to build better supercapacitors, one of the most decisive factors is not the chemical identity of an electrode material but its shape. A team of researchers at Lanzhou Petrochemical University of Vocational Technology in China has now demonstrated a remarkably simple and low-cost way to sculpt the morphology of manganese tungstate nanomaterials […]

The OlloNi SS1 AI robot pet uses a 4K camera and facial recognition to learn your family, but its removable Red Heart memory module raises questions.

In 1974, Stephen Hawking made a prediction that transformed our understanding of black holes. Black holes, he showed, are not truly black: They slowly lose energy through a quantum process now known as Hawking radiation. The lighter the black hole, the faster it evaporates.