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Chinese dancer Wu Yufei is preparing for the America’s Got Talent final alongside a crew of humanoid robots from Chinese robotics company Unitree.

EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.

Tomato growers battling bacterial wilt and speck may soon have a new tool that works in two directions at once. A research team at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran has shown that silver nanoparticles coated with chitosan, a sugar derived from crustacean shells, can both kill harmful bacteria directly and nudge tomato plants into mounting […]

Most medical devices do not enter the market through rigorous safety testing but by being deemed similar enough to something already approved—the "predicate" device—through a mechanism known as the FDA's 510(k) pathway. But similar is not a synonym for safe. While the assumption may be that substantial equivalence is a reasonable stand-in for a safety review, some devices cleared with this method are still recalled, and the FDA spends valuable time reviewing devices the same way, regardless of how risky they appear on paper.

A new way of measuring how materials interact at the atomic level could help scientists develop better-performing, longer-lasting batteries.

Alexandr Wang has set Meta’s new AI agent a simple target. Meta’s chief AI officer asked on X whether Muse could “make you $1000”, launching a hashtag challenge a few days after Muse went live on 8 September. The replies have been generous with dollar figures, but not always independent. Many of the posts answering […] This story continues at The Next Web

Simbe says more than 3,000 Tally retail robots are under contract as it expands shelf-scanning technology into a broader store intelligence platform. The post Simbe Surpasses 3,000 Contracted Robots for Retail Stores appeared first on TechRepublic.

Just as a leaf drifts along with a stream, objects in other moving fluids normally drift along with the flow. That is, unless they exert energy to move against it. Although it may be less intuitive, light waves or photons work similarly. To move against a stream of light, an object or particle, like a photon, must either have an external force acting on it or actively use energy to move upstream.

Surgeons who rebuild the mitral valve—the structure that keeps blood flowing in one direction through the left side of the heart—have long relied on proportional rules of thumb to estimate the dimensions of the leaflets they must reconstruct. A new proof-of-concept study suggests that machine learning can do better, offering patient-specific predictions of the exact […]

Engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have designed a new type of quantum nanostructure that could enable optical neural networks. This emerging technology has the potential to make artificial intelligence systems, like large language models and image generation, faster and significantly more energy efficient.

Scientists have turned an unassuming wildflower from northern Iran into a weapon against some of the most dangerous bacteria in modern hospitals. In a study published in International Microbiology, researchers report that silver nanoparticles manufactured using an extract of the plant Nonea lutea killed multidrug-resistant strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Staphylococcus aureus at […]

Apple launched arguably its first AI wearables last week with Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, which are gaining new ‘Audio Intelligence’ features alongside Siri AI. But today a Bloomberg report says a different AI product—the rumored wearable pendant—has been put on hold. more…

Newly unredacted court papers quote Microsoft and OpenAI staff describing AI training as potentially harmful to creators, while publishers cite falling news traffic in their copyright case.

A sweeping review published in the Journal of Materials Science: Polymers charts how a material thousands of times thinner than a human hair is quietly reshaping the future of medicine. Nanofibers, filaments with diameters often below 100 nanometers, owe their therapeutic appeal to a combination of properties that conventional drug carriers struggle to match: an […]

Milk is one of the most climate-sensitive commodities on Earth. Global production hovers between roughly 940 and 966 million tons a year, and even small dips ripple through prices, processing capacity, and food security. Now, researchers report that a carefully engineered hybrid artificial intelligence model can forecast how much milk an individual cow will produce […]

Sony's filings describe AI-generated diagnostic code for connected devices, while one application faced a final rejection before publication

WIM-Z's AI dog training robot uses on-device processing to detect barking and dispense treats autonomously, with field trials showing up to 83% reduction.

Lithium-ion batteries quietly age every time they charge and discharge, and knowing exactly how much life remains inside a cell has become one of the most consequential measurement problems in modern energy technology. Electric vehicles, grid-scale storage systems and consumer electronics all depend on accurate estimates of the state of health, the measure that links […]

During the production of fermented products such as kefir, Parmesan, or mountain cheese, as well as in the production of protein powders, bitter-tasting peptides can form, which impair the taste and thus the acceptability of the products. A research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich has now developed and successfully tested an AI-based method that can predict the bitterness of peptides. It also makes it possible to design new, bitter-tasting peptides from scratch. This is another important step forward in taste and food research.

Inside every bacterial cell, RNA molecules carry far more information than their sequence of bases alone. After transcription, the four nitrogenous bases of RNA can be chemically altered by specialized enzymes, and these modifications influence how stable the molecules are, how efficiently they are translated into protein, and how the cell copes with stress. The […]

Every year, the world applies millions of tonnes of agrochemicals to crops and consumes billions of doses of pharmaceuticals, yet the safety story rarely ends when these compounds do their intended job. Once released into soil, water, and the human body, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and drugs are transformed by sunlight, microbes, plants, and metabolism into […]

Chemists at the University of Kashan have unveiled a multifunctional nanomaterial that works equally hard as a green synthetic catalyst and as a springboard for next-generation anti-allergy drug design. In a study published in the Journal of the Saudi Chemical Society, the research team fabricated tantalum-doped nickel oxide nanorods embedded within zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8), […]

Toyota's push comes as automakers race to develop and deploy humanoid robots.

Amphotericin B has long been regarded as one of the most powerful antifungal agents in clinical medicine, a drug of last resort for life-threatening invasive infections. Yet its notorious toxicity, particularly to the kidneys, has limited how freely it can be used, and its poor solubility has frustrated formulators for decades. Now, a team of […]

Advances in artificial intelligence and the myriad ways content is shared online have made establishing authenticity even more difficult for users of social media.

Until now, diagnosing skin tumors has relied on detecting visible changes to the skin, and Line-Field Confocal Optical Coherence Tomography (LC-OCT) is a well-established method used for diagnosis. Now, researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) led by Dr. Moritz Ronicke from the Department of Dermatology at Uniklinikum Erlangen have developed a new approach.

Researchers have developed an organoid-on-a-chip technology that verifies the efficacy of Parkinson's disease treatments in real time. The technology combines a stem cell–derived "mini-brain" with a nanoplasmonic sensor engineered to maximize light–matter interaction.

I tried ChatGPT and Copilot side by side in Microsoft Word, and I was surprised by what I found.

A century ago, the Czech writer Karel Čapek gave the world the word “robot” in his play R.U.R., imagining artificial beings that obeyed commands spoken in plain language. Researchers at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, working with the robotics company Panza Robotics, have now brought that vision a step closer to reality. In […]

Researchers have unveiled a modular stereoselective synthetic strategy that allows them to control, with unprecedented precision, the handedness of multiple helicene units embedded within large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The work, published in Nature Synthesis, demonstrates the preparation of hexabenzocoronenes and graphene nanoribbons carrying up to eight uniformly aligned helicene motifs, each installed with defined stereochemistry. […]

Heavy metal pollution has become one of the most stubborn environmental problems of the industrial age. Lead, copper, chromium, mercury, zinc, and cadmium do not biodegrade, and once they enter rivers, lakes, and groundwater they accumulate in living tissue, moving up food chains and ultimately reaching humans. A new review published in the Journal of […]

Iambic Therapeutics has filed to go public, the latest example in the maturation of the next crop of AI-focused biotech startups. The San Diego-based company disclosed new details on its own pipeline programs and pharma ...

Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology on Tuesday launched a suite of central processing units (CPUs) for robotics and industrial edge devices, expanding beyond cloud computing and into the fast-growing market for physical artificial intelligence. The firm unveiled its Hygon 1000 series processors, designed to be embedded into physical devices in industrial automation systems such as robotics and factory controllers, enabling computing and graphics processing to be handled locally. Built...

Tesla’s newest Full Self-Driving update, v14.3.9, is telling owners their cameras are dirty when they aren’t — and sending them to service to fix a problem that doesn’t exist. Tesla has confirmed the bug and is canceling the service appointments it triggered. A fix is expected in a coming update. more…

Nigerian surgeons remotely removed a cancer-affected kidney in West Africa’s first tele-robotic surgery Read Full Article at RT.com

Every morning, millions of commuters sit in traffic that was, in principle, predictable hours earlier. Now a team of researchers at the University of Pisa, working with collaborators in France, has unveiled a deep learning framework that promises to make those predictions sharper, longer-ranged, and more interpretable than ever before. In a study published in […]

Pulsed laser deposition has long been one of the most versatile tools in the thin-film physicist’s toolkit, capable of turning a ceramic disc of a complex oxide into an atomically controlled film on a substrate within minutes. Yet for all its power, the technique has remained stubbornly difficult to steer in real time. A laser […]

Authorities plan to use such robots to perform logistical tasks for the country’s Self-Defense Forces

Researchers have unveiled a biomimetic nanoparticle platform based on graphitic carbon nitride that can modulate light across multiple biological scales and translate that optical control into therapeutic intervention. The work, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, describes how cell-membrane-coated nanoparticles built from this metal-free polymeric semiconductor can interact with biological systems in ways that conventional inorganic […]

Stanford researchers have recorded the first real-time quantum jumps of sound, watching single phonons abruptly vanish from one energy state to another. The breakthrough could open new paths for quantum computing, error correction, highly sensitive biological sensors, and next-generation sound-based devices.

A new AI control system lets MIT’s tiny flying robot move with insect-like agility, boosting its speed by about 450 percent and allowing it to pull off 10 somersaults in 11 seconds. The technology could eventually enable miniature robots to search earthquake rubble and navigate dangerous spaces that conventional drones cannot reach.

Reliably verifying the location of a device connected to the internet or other networks is important for various real-world applications. For instance, it could be valuable for authorizing financial transactions, securing communications and controlling who can access specific databases or services.

For two decades, the promise of nanomedicine has been haunted by an uncomfortable statistic: a landmark meta-analysis estimated that, on average, less than 1% of an intravenously administered nanoparticle dose actually reaches solid tumor tissue. Spherical polymeric particles and liposomes in the 100–200 nanometer range, even after successive generations of PEGylation, active targeting ligands, and […]

The Biological Computing Co. (TBC), a San Francisco startup that grows living neurons to improve AI models, has partnered with Amazon Web Services to bring its first commercial product, a neuron-derived AI video model, to paying customers. The text-to-video model is tuned with software based on how those cells process information. TBC built the model […] This story continues at The Next Web

In their earliest years of development, computers used mechanical gears and levers to store information. Today, researchers are exploring whether a material itself can hold onto information, storing memory in how it bends and springs back to its original shape.

Politico: UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he plans to use the UK's upcoming G20 presidency to broker a global AI governance deal, ahead of the UN General Assembly  —  Andy Burnham says the U.K. is “uniquely positioned” to broker international cooperation in the wake of dire AI warnings.

The Biological Computing Company is bringing its AI tools to Amazon Web Services in a major boost for a once-fringe field that aims to marry nature with code.

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems  —  Intrinsic Innovation LLC, the intelligent robotics software company owned by Google LLC's parent Alphabet Inc. …

Sophie Shulman / CTech: Cognex agrees to acquire robotics and 3D computer vision company RealSense in a ~$600M deal, including $500M in cash; Intel spun off RealSense in July 2025  —  The Haifa-based robotics company grew rapidly after its spinout 14 months ago, and its CEO says independence allowed it to pursue opportunities …

The humanoid robot was ready to work as soon as it was put together. It walked right out to receive its staff badge.

There's a disturbing new trend of grandparents producing AI images of their grandkids, but does it point to a larger societal issue?

The zero-day exploit required local access to the user’s device, but gave potential attackers access to Muse accounts. | Image: The Verge Meta has issued a patch for its Muse macOS app following the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability that could allow someone to take control of the AI agent. The bug found by security researcher Patrick Wardle utilized an undocumented Muse setting that enabled potential attackers running local code to redirect transcription processing from Meta's servers to their own endpoint, Ars Technica reports, giving the attacker access to the Muse account. Several design decisions reportedly enabled this flaw, including having Muse dictation occur in the cloud instead of on-device, and allowing any app to control all of Muse's undocumented settings. Pr … Read the full story at The Verge.

Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse Amazon lost an argument in court in August. Now it is using a pop-up.

Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com, exposing new tensions over browser access, AI agents, and online commerce. The post Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse AI Agent From Shopping on Amazon.com Over Bot Access appeared first on TechRepublic.

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The Philippines launched 11 Gemini-powered AI tools inside eGovPH, expanding digital government services for citizens and public-sector workers. The post Philippines Puts Google Gemini Into eGovPH With 11 AI Tools for Public Services appeared first on TechRepublic.

FAA’s AI Airspace Planner Thousands of US flights are late before a single passenger boards, because airlines schedule

Physical qubit counts used to dominate quantum-computing announcements. They still matter, but they do not show whether a

Cutting-edge Chinese technology could gradually be becoming part of Serbia’s weapons systems with the appearance of robot dogs in a Serbian military drill on the weekend soon after the opening of a Chinese robotics factory in the Balkan country, according to observers. Robodogs equipped with machine guns, grenade launchers and rocket launchers were among the major weapons systems unveiled at Serbia’s Pobednik 2026 large-scale tactical live-fire exercise on Sunday. The event involved its army,...

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The Paris-based company Biolevate, which develops AI automation for use in regulated life sciences, has raised €30m in its Series A funding and has opened an office in Boston. Orange Ventures and RAISE France co-led the fundraising exercise, with the company stating that RAISE France is the investment arm of Aymar Hénin, a French entrepreneur. […] This story continues at The Next Web

Kwon Young-min, the newly appointed CEO of Doosan Robotics, faces the crucial task of turning the company’s artificial intelligence (AI)-driven robotics strategy into a profitable and sustainable growth engine. The robotics arm of Doosan Group recently appointed Kwon, who has extensive experience in strategy and global operations, as its new top executive. Kwon joined the group’s strategy and planning division in 2000, and served as chief strategy officer of Doosan Bobcat from 2018 to 2020 and has led Doosan Mottrol, a Doosan Bobcat subsidiary, since 2021, before taking on the new role. His appointment comes as Doosan Robotics attempts to reposition itself from a manufacturer of collaborative robots into a provider of intelligent robot solutions combining hardware, software and AI. The company has already laid out a strategy to integrate AI into its robotic arms and software, allowing customers to automate tasks with less programming while optimizing work routes and sequences. The

Synthesizing magnetite nanoparticles directly in dye-polluted water gives them new surface chemistry that lets them adsorb different pollutants The post Dirty magnetite nanoparticles keep cleaning up dyes appeared first on Physics World.

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TechCrunch: Dutch nanoimprint lithography startup Morphotonics raised €40M from 3M Ventures, EIC Fund, and others, and plans to expand into data center optical components  —  The Netherlands' ASML is possibly the biggest name in lithography, using its machines to etch patterns onto silicon wafers inside …

Author(s): Yu-Han Cao, Kai-Yue Jiang, Hong-Yan Lu, Da Wang, and Qiang-Hua WangThe authors combine first-principles calculations and singular-mode functional renormalization group to show that the interlayer Ni–Ni distance controls competing orders in La 3 Ni 2 O 7 /LaAlO 3 thin films. With increasing distance, the ground state evolves from a C -type spin density wave

Author(s): Taige Wang and Ya-Hui ZhangA charge-balanced quantum Hall trilayer at ν = 1/3 per layer could host an anyon-exciton condensate where superfluidity coexists with topological order at intermediate layer separation. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 136502] Published Mon Sep 21, 2026

A perspective in Next Nanotechnology examines how integrating quantum biosensors with microfluidic organ-on-a-chip platforms could enable continuous, high-resolution monitoring of electrophysiology, metabolism, and local tissue conditions. The approach could extend measurements from the millimeter to the nanoscale, but challenges in optical and microwave integration, thermal control, fabrication, and signal processing remain.

Hyundai Motor Group has opened its robot training and testing facility for Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot as part of efforts to bring the group’s physical artificial intelligence (AI) vision into its global production operations. The carmaker said Tuesday the Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC) has started operations at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) in the state of Georgia in the United States. The facility will serve as a major testbed where Atlas is trained in an environment designed to replicate actual automotive production sites before the robots are deployed on factory floors. Atlas is being trained to perform a range of manufacturing-related tasks, including preparing materials for logistics operations and sorting automotive parts according to their assembly sequence. The training is intended to help the humanoid robot handle increasingly sophisticated work in real-world production environments. The facility is expected to play a key role in

Zelda Williams has condemned a fake AI video depicting Robin Williams discussing conspiracy theories, urging people to stop creating and sharing synthetic recreations of her late father.

Elon Musk confirms no automaker has ever accepted Tesla's offer to license Full Self-Driving software. The post Why automakers keep turning down Elon Musk’s Tesla Full Self-Driving offer appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Researchers have found evidence that long COVID may damage dopamine releasing neurons in the brain, potentially explaining persistent fatigue, low motivation, slowed movement, and memory difficulties. The discovery could lead to new treatments that target the brain's dopamine system.

Korean power equipment and industrial automation solution provider LS Electric said Tuesday it has put two of Boston Dynamics' four-legged Spot robots into regular operation at its Busan plant, using them to monitor production equipment and support quality and safety management as part of a broader smart factory push. The company worked with Hyundai Autoever, a systems integration affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, for a roughly two-month trial run starting in July before formally deploying the two robots. The Busan plant is LS Electric's main production site for ultrahigh-voltage transformers, a market seeing rising global demand as investment in AI data centers and power grids accelerates. The company said Spot will help build a predictive maintenance system that flags equipment problems before they cause production delays. The robots are being used to monitor vapor phase drying, a core part of transformer manufacturing in which components are dried in a vacuum chamber. Spot's onboard

That a US military operation was underway with the potential to escalate into war with China, before basic facts were checked, testifies to the utter recklessness of the Trump administration and American imperialism.

Plastic pollution is increasingly being recognized as more than an environmental problem. Tiny plastic particles can enter living organisms, circulate through biological systems, and potentially reach reproductive tissues.

Handheld ultrasound devices' lower image quality can make small or faint carotid plaque hard to see. Researchers in Hunan Province, China, developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that sharpens handheld ultrasound images after they are taken.

LG is expanding its strategic partnership with Microsoft across the AI value chain, spanning next-generation AI data centers, Physical AI, and AI transformation.On Sep. 21 (local time), LG and Microsoft held a top management meeting at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, where Koo Kwang-m

Training has begun in earnest to prepare 25,000 of Hyundai Motor Group’s Atlas humanoid robots for deployment at automotive manufacturing sites. The initiative aims to bring physical AI technology that mimics human movements into production processes, moving beyond simple, repetitive tasks to drive

Researchers have found that we know very little about how artificial intelligence use impacts younger school children's ability to learn and think.

LG Energy Solution has been included as the only domestic battery company in NVIDIA’s next-generation AI factory ecosystem, which features only three companies globally.LG Energy Solution announced on Sep. 22 that it was selected as a battery energy storage system (BESS) company for the ‘DSX Ready’

A Google Gemini AI agent broke into three companies in July, guessing the credentials for one and discovering the credentials for the second two in a public repository, Google confirmed on Monday. But the more interesting background to the story, which was broken by The Wall Street Journal on Friday, is that the July incident stemmed from a series of cybersecurity tests performed by security research firm Irregular on behalf of four AI giants: Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta. All four companies experienced agent misbehavior resulting in cybersecurity incidents, but of the four, only Google never publicly disclosed its agent’s activities. Indeed, it didn’t reveal the breaches at all until contacted by a WSJ reporter. Irregular described the incident in August, around the same time as Meta published its version

A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has taken its first pictures of space as it heads toward its orbital location. From there, it will begin scanning deep space to uncover more about our universe.

Huawei’s Ascend 960 roadmap combines massive processor counts, UnifiedBus and optical links to support increasingly demanding AI workloads.

A drop of coffee on a tabletop often leaves a dark ring behind. This everyday mark is a reminder that a drying droplet is not passive: As water evaporates, it can transport the particles suspended inside it toward the edge. Scientists call this the coffee-ring effect. For inkjet printing and surface coatings, however, a ring is often exactly what engineers do not want. They need the material to land in a controlled, predictable pattern.

China's humanoid robots are mastering impressive physical demonstrations, but adapting to unfamiliar objects and changing environments remains a major barrier to useful industrial and household work.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how one of medicine’s most information-rich cancer scans is read, and a new comprehensive review argues that lymphoma may be the field where the change hits hardest. Published in Holistic Integrative Oncology, the review systematically synthesized 53 original studies, selected from an initial pool of more than 1,000 papers under […]

Nvidia says Vera Rubin NVL72 delivers up to 30x more agentic AI throughput, but enterprises should weigh workload needs, power, cooling, and cost. The post Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 Boosts Agentic AI Throughput by 30x appeared first on TechRepublic.

Artificial intelligence is transforming medicine at breathtaking speed, diagnosing heart disease from electrocardiograms, flagging sepsis hours before clinicians suspect it, and drafting clinical notes in seconds. Yet a new commentary in the Journal of Medical Systems argues that the hardest problems facing clinical AI are not computational at all. They are philosophical. Antonis A. Armoundas […]

The next generation of lithium-ion batteries could come with a little graphitic carbon nitride mixed in.

A new study has found a sustainable and scalable way to improve the durability of plant-based packaging; it's a discovery that researchers say could help curb the environmental footprint of plastic. Researchers used advanced plasma technology to apply layered, protective coatings to the surface of cellulosic nanofibril (CNF) films, with the goal of reducing water absorption and improving moisture resistance.

Humanoid robots faced off in Shanghai as they autonomously navigated the ring, read opponents’ movements and chose their responses in real time.

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Meta shares rose more than 10% in intraday trading ahead of Meta Connect after Wells Fargo raised its price target, citing recent Muse AI launches and the app's App Store ranking.

Gliomas are a major cause of cancer-related deaths in younger adults. About 7,000 patients harbor a common genetic mutation that affects the enzyme isocitrate dehydrogenase 1. This mutated enzyme, called mIDH1, can produce a molecule that can reprogram both the tumor cells and the environment in which they grow. The molecule, known as 2-hydroxyglutarate, can also circulate in the blood and reprogram immune cells in the bone marrow.