Headlines

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.

In a striking convergence of plant chemistry and nanotechnology, researchers have engineered gold nanoparticles stabilized by quercetin, a naturally occurring flavonoid found in many fruits and vegetables, and demonstrated that the resulting bio-nano compound packs an impressive portfolio of therapeutic activities: potent antioxidant effects, protection of red blood cell membranes, strong anti-inflammatory action, selective killing […]

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips We’ve spent months mapping which companies sit across those four layers... Not the trillion-dollar names everyone already owns, but the potential Intels, Ciscos, and Nvidias of the Physical AI age. The post Physical AI’s $40 Trillion Question: How Elon Musk Confirms the Biggest Winners appeared first on InvestorPlace.

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Everybody likes to be first. Wall Street, especially. There’s always a lot of excitement around the company that gets to a new technology or a new market before everybody else. But being first doesn’t always mean you’re going to win. Apple Inc. (AAPL) has proved that plenty of times. The company didn’t invent the MP3… The post Why Apple Could Be a Surprise Winner in the Next AI Boom appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Humanoid robots at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing have outpaced and out-jumped human athletics benchmarks, but the event also revealed how much work remains before they can operate reliably in the real world.

The solar storm that hit Earth last November was more severe than most, and we need to be prepared for the next one.

© seekingalpha.com. Use of this feed is limited to personal, non-commercial use and is governed by Seeking Alpha's Terms of Use (https://about.seekingalpha.com/terms). Publishing this feed for public or commercial use and/or misrepresentation by a third party is prohibited.

Tesla is beginning to roll out Full Self-Driving Supervised v14.3.9 with a new active safety layer that can take control even when the driver is operating the car manually. Tesla AI said the software can activate FSD on the driver’s behalf when an imminent collision is detected and Automatic Emergency Braking may not be enough. […] The post Tesla Full Self-Driving will now overtake manual driving to avoid disaster appeared first on TESLARATI.

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage, and protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple. Apple recently confirmed it has capped the number of open vulnerability reports that researchers can submit through its portal, with a 30-day cool-down period once you hit that cap. The reason is that a surge in AI-generated bug reports is flooding the review pipeline. I understand the instinct, but I think it’s the wrong response at exactly the wrong moment. more…

A research team led by UCLA and the University of Rochester has demonstrated a promising evolution of an

Robots are moving out of laboratories and into the spaces humans occupy every day: hospital corridors, airport concourses, grocery aisles, and crowded sidewalks. But a new survey published in the journal Autonomous Robots argues that the field of multi-robot navigation has been quietly fractured along disciplinary lines, and that this fragmentation is slowing progress on […]

Rice University researchers have used a magnetically levitated particle to search for ultraheavy dark matter, extending the hunt for some of the heaviest possible forms of the invisible matter thought to hold galaxies together. Led by Christopher Tunnell, associate professor of physics and astronomy, the researchers used a tiny floating magnet as a highly sensitive detector designed to register the faint push an ultraheavy dark matter particle could produce as it passed through.

The Strutt ev1c adds autonomous smarts that are smartly implemented.

“A click, signature, or brief review should not magically transfer responsibility from an AI developer or platform to a physician,” a reader tells STAT.

Sepsis remains one of the most formidable challenges in modern intensive care, a syndrome in which the body’s response to infection spirals into widespread inflammation, organ dysfunction, and too often death. Yet even for patients who survive the initial septic crisis, a silent threat frequently lurks in the background: venous thromboembolism, or VTE, a condition […]

The persistent threat of emerging coronaviruses highlights the critical need to establish frontline defenses directly at the respiratory entry portal.

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters  —  A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …

Ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms often progress silently, but once dissection or rupture occurs, they can cause severe mortality before hospital arrival or during admission.

Scientists have uncovered an unusual form of electron behavior in zirconium pentatelluride, a quantum material that can act as both an insulator and a conductor. Under temperatures near absolute zero and magnetic fields reaching 60 tesla, electrons produced quantum oscillations that continued even after conventional physics predicted they should disappear.

Author(s): Peisi Huang, Anibal D. Medina, and Carlos E. M. WagnerThis paper studies dark matter in a spontaneously broken hidden U(1). The initial overabundant dark matter density is generated through the freeze-out mechanism. Because the subsequent first order phase transition becomes supercooled, the vacuum transition generates entropy, diluting the DM density to its current value. The MeV–GeV transition also produces nano-Hz gravitational waves potentially detectable by pulsar timing arrays such as NANOGrav. [Phys. Rev. D 114, 055004] Published Fri Sep 04, 2026

The FDA's TEMPO pilot now lists four devices, including an AI voice agent delivering therapy to Medicare patients without premarket authorization.

Google added Lyria 3.5, its most advanced AI music model, to the Gemini app, letting users generate full songs from text prompts or photos.

Cockroach milk, kissing evolution and the underwear soil test were among the unusual real studies honored at the Ig Nobel ceremony in Zurich.

Artificial intelligence has transformed biomedical research over the past decade, but most AI systems in biology remain confined to narrow tasks, single data types, or one biological scale at a time. A new Perspective article published in Advanced Science proposes a radical conceptual remedy: a hypothetical “Full-Body AI Agent,” a supervisory multi-agent framework designed to […]

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Bottlenecks have an interesting economic consequence. When everybody desperately needs the same scarce thing, the people who control it gain enormous leverage. The post Why Elon Musk Does NOT Want You to Know About These AI Bottlenecks appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Researchers have completely suppressed superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by screening interactions between electrons, helping resolve a long-running debate about the origin of the phenomenon.

Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg: Filing: AI training data startup Micro1 offers to pay $12.5M for Spirit Airlines' data; the offer faces hurdles as Spirit already has a $10M deal with Google  —  An artificial intelligence startup is attempting to wrest away a vast trove of Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc.'s business records from Google LLC.

Robots that crawl along steel walls to inspect ships, storage tanks, bridges, and pipelines have long faced a stubborn trade-off: the stronger the magnetic grip that keeps them attached, the harder it becomes for them to lift a wheel or leg over an obstacle. A team of researchers at Wuhan University of Science and Technology […]

Robot.com's R-dog uses articulated legs and wheels to climb stairs and deliver packages, while its built-in screens display paid ads along the route.

The AI training-data company micro1 has offered $12.5M for Spirit Aviation’s internal records, topping Google’s agreed $10M and proposing an ombudsman chosen by Spirit’s advisers rather than the buyer. European law would treat the deidentification promise as a question about capability rather than a label, but none of it applies to an American liquidation. An […] This story continues at The Next Web

Bloomberg: Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as $3.5B in financing, including $2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO  —  Nscale, a cloud computing firm focused on artificial intelligence, is in talks with potential investors to raise as much as $3.5 billion …

A joint research team from NIMS and the University of Tokyo has developed a new composite in which three-dimensional nano-interfaces are distributed throughout the material by coating the surfaces of magnetic-insulator powders with a metal and sintering them. Using this structure, the team succeeded in observing thermoelectric conversion driven by spins in an insulator, a phenomenon previously observed only at nanoscale thin-film interfaces, in a macroscale material.

Nscale is in talks to raise up to $3.5B ahead of a US listing, including $1.5B of convertible notes led by Third Point and about $2B from Nvidia. It is briefing investors that its contracts total roughly $103B, most of the increase coming from a $45B Anthropic deal that Microsoft and Google both passed on. […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI Overviews are changing branded search. Learn why healthcare organizations may need branded PPC to protect visibility, reduce confusion, and help patients find them.

Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported call with Donald Trump in mid-August, Politico reports. The two options still on the table are a FINRA-style body funded by the firms it would oversee and an MPA-style voluntary ratings scheme, so the debate is over how much self-regulation rather […] This story continues at The Next Web

Augmented reality (AR) glasses, lenses thinner than a human hair, and holograms floating above your fingertips may sound like technologies from science fiction. At the heart of these emerging technologies, however, lies a nanoscale optical device known as a "metasurface."

Something strange is happening in the way humanity talks about its greatest crisis. While greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere and global temperatures continue their relentless climb, researchers across multiple disciplines are documenting an equally significant phenomenon: the words, metaphors, and narrative frames we use to comprehend climate change are proving inadequate to the task. […]

Researchers have unveiled a new class of hollow gold nanocavities that can selectively amplify specific excitonic transitions in atomically thin molybdenum disulfide, offering a geometry-based route to control how these remarkable two-dimensional semiconductors absorb and emit light. Writing in the journal Results in Physics, Abdullah Efe Yildiz and Emre Ozan Polat present detailed finite-difference time-domain […]

Google has made Lyria 3.5 available in the Gemini app and API, generating full songs at 44.1kHz from text or images with SynthID watermarking. A Munich court ruled against Suno on 31 July over memorised works and infringing outputs, asserting jurisdiction over training done outside the EU. Google has put its Lyria 3.5 music model […] This story continues at The Next Web

Discover the top stories from Aug. 29 to Sept. 4, 2026, including how recreational drugs may be linked to stroke risk even in younger users and the surprising diet of an invasive spider in Georgia.

Nilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad on the Sonos 27 platform, AI assistants, its Google relationship, speakers as a home computer mesh network, and more  —  Today, I'm talking with Tom Conrad, the CEO of Sonos.  Tom and I have known each other for a long time — he was the chief technology officer …

Australian researchers have uncovered what happens behind the scenes in our brain when we’re faced with a predictable

Minisforum unveiled the NAS N5 Max-P495 and MS-S1 Max-P945 at IFA 2026. The NAS and mini-PC are powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495, which can be configured with up to 192GB of unified memory and packs a Radeon 8065S integrated GPU.

IT industry experts and analysts are still trying to piece together Nvidia’s surprise plan to pay $12.9 billion for open-source AI company Hugging Face. Nvidia dominates AI with its GPUs, and the company generates billions of dollars in revenue through a proprietary approach to the fast-moving technology. Hugging Face, on the other hand, hosts open models and has been a neutral player between chip vendors and model labs. “This is about Nvidia having more say in how the stack gets built,” said Stephanie Walter, analyst at Hyperframe Research. Hugging Face is wildly popular with developers, and Nvidia is buying early influence with that crowd. “You have a better chance of being part of the production environment later,” Walter said, adding that she wasn’t sure how Nvidia reached a

Many of us are relying more and more on AI for answers, but it's always worth double-checking.

Uber and Wayve began carrying paying passengers in London on 3 September, in what Wayve described in a statement as the UK’s first autonomous ride-hailing service. Every car has a trained, TfL-licensed private hire driver on board. Olivia Solon rode one on a wet morning this week and summarised the experience for Bloomberg as autonomous rides with hands still […] This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk's estranged daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, fronts Desigual's anti-AI campaign, challenging tech, championing creatives, and urging LGBTQ+ voters to act.

The key to finding more critical minerals may lie in understanding how fluids and chemicals move through rock. As these fluids travel underground, they can dissolve, transport and concentrate valuable minerals in specific places.

© seekingalpha.com. Use of this feed is limited to personal, non-commercial use and is governed by Seeking Alpha's Terms of Use (https://about.seekingalpha.com/terms). Publishing this feed for public or commercial use and/or misrepresentation by a third party is prohibited.

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: PUBG developer Krafton plans to invest $250M in India in the next 3-4 years, for a total investment of $500M+ since 2021, as it expands into AI and robotics  —  Krafton, the South Korean gaming company behind titles including PUBG and Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), plans …

Pulsar Timing Arrays have been used to observe the background of gravitational waves in our galaxy. We aren't certain of their origin, but a new study shows a strong source could be early supermassive giants known as dark stars.