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The beating heart inside ‘Human Vapor’

Japan Times Technology·Jul 8, 2026

Director Shinzo Katayama and actor Shun Oguri discuss the cross-cultural collaboration behind Netflix's "Human Vapor."

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Wakatakakage injury casts pall over July meet, but potential new stars loom

Japan Times Technology·Jul 8, 2026

The Nagoya tournament still offers plenty of intrigue, from a disrupted title race to the debut of highly touted English prospect Nicholas…

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Europe’s third major heat wave raises grid and water risks

Japan Times Technology·Jul 8, 2026

The latest spell of hot weather is being driven by a high-pressure heat dome, similar to the one that shattered records across much of the…

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Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos

The Verge AI·Jul 7, 2026

{"#text":"Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now power…

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Policy

ABB Robotics includes vSLAM navigation in F712 autonomous forklift

The Robot Report·Jul 7, 2026

The Flexley Stacy F712 forklift uses vision to navigate, works with other robots, and complies with safety standards, says ABB Robotics. Th…

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The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale

MIT Technology Review·Jul 7, 2026

With the rapid progress of AI capabilities and the move to agentic systems, organizations are expanding their use cases as the technology c…

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HIVE brings in $15M to build physical AI for industrial machines

The Robot Report·Jul 7, 2026

HIVE has deployed its technology across several sites in Scandinavia, operating autonomously across different machines. The post HIVE bring…

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Kraken Robotics acquires Covelya Group for $615M

The Robot Report·Jul 6, 2026

Covelya Group expands Kraken Robotics' product offerings and total addressable market in subsea technology. The post Kraken Robotics acquir…

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Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees

The Verge AI·Jul 6, 2026

{"#text":"A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The s…

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Prosecutors to lay out case against Charlie Kirk’s accused killer

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 5, 2026

Charlie Kirk’s widow and parents are expected this week in a Utah court where prosecutors seeking the death penalty will argue that the man…

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‘Catastrophic’ Super Typhoon Bavi hits US island of Rota

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 5, 2026

A “super typhoon” with equivalent force to a category-5 hurricane made landfall on the US island of Rota in the Pacific on Monday, the Nati…

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Humanoid

Humanoid says KinetIQ Ascend reinforcement learning approaches human-level dexterity

The Robot Report·Jul 5, 2026

Humanoid says its KinetIQ Ascend approach can reach 99.9% manipulation reliability at human speed and beyond for industrial tasks. The post…

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Asian landlords are ready for a hawkish Fed

Japan Times Technology·Jul 5, 2026

The lesson across these markets is the same: Property owners who cleaned up their debt profiles ahead of time are well poised to navigate a…

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Trump seeks to put himself centre stage for US Independence Day

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 4, 2026

President Donald Trump will headline US Independence Day celebrations on Saturday with a speech and a show that seek to place him at the ce…

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Sachiko Kazama’s art bites back at a cruel society

Japan Times Technology·Jul 4, 2026

Sachiko Kazama has made a name for herself as a sharp satirist. Her art from spanning a nearly four-decade long career is now on display in…

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Context is king: How Avride uses cloud VLMs as a safety net for delivery robots

The Robot Report·Jul 4, 2026

Avride uses vision-language models, or VLMs, to improve the environmental awareness of its delivery robots. The post Context is king: How A…

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The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself

The Verge AI·Jul 4, 2026

{"#text":"Over the past week, a new fanworks movement has kicked off, with the aim to root out authors using generative AI. But the detecti…

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Nasa launches robotic mission to save space telescope

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 3, 2026

Nasa launched a robotic mission on Friday to try to prevent one of its ageing telescopes from burning up in the atmosphere, a complicated o…

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Research

A device that revives eyeballs from dead donors could make eye transplants possible

MIT Technology Review·Jul 3, 2026

It’s not easy to transplant a whole human eye. The surgery is difficult. And the eyes themselves start to degenerate as soon as they’ve lef…

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ERL2026 Photo & Video Galleries Now Online

EU Robotics·Jul 3, 2026

Congratulations to all participants! Thank you to all sponsors and partners! Check out the photo gallery of ERL2026, the aftermovie and the…

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Humanoid

Automate 2026 show recap

The Robot Report·Jul 2, 2026

Editors Steve Crowe, Mike Oitzman, and Sarah Wynn review Automate 2026, analyzing key trends in physical AI, humanoids, and software orches…

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Achieving operational excellence with AI

MIT Technology Review·Jul 2, 2026

Frameworks like Lean Six Sigma and business process management (BPM) first gained traction because they promised clarity in the chaos—a str…

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Research

Reflections from ICRA 2026

Robohub·Jul 2, 2026

From the 1st-5th June, the robots descended on Vienna. The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) brought t…

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Consumer

Teaching AI to run with the turbines

MIT Technology Review·Jul 2, 2026

Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its most consequential…

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