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General

What Nolan’s Odysseus tells us about Western elite’s existential angst

South China Morning Post Tech·Aug 14, 2026

In every civilisation, certain stories capture the psyche so profoundly that they are retold across centuries. In the West, Homer’s Odyssey…

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General

Building a practical path to post-quantum cryptography

MIT Technology Review·Aug 13, 2026

Quantum computing has alternated between breakthrough darling and overhyped promise in technology circles. Its powerful new capabilities co…

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General

Solar eclipse turns day to night in Spain, wows crowds across Europe

South China Morning Post Tech·Aug 12, 2026

Day briefly turned to night in Spain on Wednesday, as the country witnessed its first total solar eclipse in more than a century, plunging…

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General

Colombian woman pulled alive from rubble as earthquake death toll tops 200

South China Morning Post Tech·Aug 12, 2026

Colombian rescuers pulled a 32-year-old woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed building on Tuesday, sparking cheers and applause as exh…

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Policy

How the “censorship-industrial complex” is changing the Internet and US policy

MIT Technology Review·Aug 11, 2026

I first heard the term “censorship-industrial complex” on April 15, 2025.  That’s when I got the tip that a small office in the U.S. S…

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Research

A ‘5-in-1’ seed-sized surgical robot

Robohub·Aug 10, 2026

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a tiny seed-sized robot that can navigate across…

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General

AI for science needs reasoning, not just data

MIT Technology Review·Aug 10, 2026

Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “fact…

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Manipulation

Chinese executive filmed taking cash on Colombia metro, South America’s biggest project

South China Morning Post Tech·Aug 3, 2026

Colombian prosecutors are investigating allegations that executives of a Chinese state-owned contractor building the Bogota metro demanded…

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Startup

US man hikes out of mountains for help after being impaled by trekking pole

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 30, 2026

David Cifaldi and his two hiking companions were crossing Montana’s ominous Froze-to-Death Plateau and approaching the top of the state’s h…

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Humanoid

Robot Finger Feels in Color

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 28, 2026

Imagine running your fingertip over the surface of a U.S. penny. You would feel the ridges of the raised letters and numbers, Abe Lincoln’s…

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General

How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors

MIT Technology Review·Jul 27, 2026

Outside the small town of Paducah, Kentucky, a wealth of uranium is locked away in thousands of storage cylinders filled with waste materia…

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Research

Optical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 26, 2026

Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED e…

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General

Magmotor makes motors for a changing world for 150+ years

The Robot Report·Jul 26, 2026

Magmotor has been providing motors for demanding use cases for decades and offers custom systems for robotics. The post Magmotor makes moto…

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Humanoid

Video Friday: An Italian Humanoid Comes to Life

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 24, 2026

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videosVideo Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at…

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General

Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”

MIT Technology Review·Jul 23, 2026

When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from a donor’s body, it starts to deter…

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General

China’s role in Ivory Coast, Maggie Cheung’s career evolution: 5 weekend reads you missed

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 20, 2026

We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like…

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Manipulation

This Graduate Student Equips NASA’s Robots With Assembly Skills

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 17, 2026

Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered robotics…

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Manipulation

How to Make an Invisible Drone

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 16, 2026

There are many words that I would never, ever use to describe a drone. Stealthy. Subtle. Whatever the opposite of obnoxious is. Much of thi…

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General

The Download: a useful quantum machine and a record-breaking subsea tunnel

MIT Technology Review·Jul 15, 2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of t…

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General

PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light

MIT Technology Review·Jul 14, 2026

The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks like a data center crossed with an ice cream factory. Inside wi…

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Manipulation

Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 13, 2026

This article is brought to you by X Square Robot.Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe. Pretrain a large mode…

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Research

Ground Robots Inherit the Kill Zone

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 10, 2026

Borys Drozhak has a vision: a frontline almost free of humans, patrolled by flying drones and ground robots, and continuously monitored by…

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AI Training

Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet

TechCrunch Robotics·Jul 8, 2026

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models lik…

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General

ENCY Software and Stäubli Robotics partner to simplify robot programming

The Robot Report·Jul 8, 2026

ENCY Software and Stäubli Robotics have signed a global agreement to make robot programming more intuitive, faster, and more accessible. Th…

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