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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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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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NVIDIA shares how to evaluate general-purpose robot policies for real-world deployment

The Robot Report·Jul 14, 2026

RoboLab research powers NVIDIA Isaac Lab-Arena, an open-source simulation framework for large-scale policy setup and evaluation. The post N…

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What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show

MIT Technology Review·Jul 13, 2026

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. A…

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EU eyes social media curbs for children

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 13, 2026

The European ⁠Union will move to limit young ⁠children’s access to social media across the 27-member bloc, European Commission President Ur…

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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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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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Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts

MIT Technology Review·Jul 9, 2026

The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language…

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IEEE Honors Robotics Pioneer Toshio Fukuda

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 7, 2026

Toshio Fukuda has been blazing trails for most of his career. He is considered to be one of the most prolific scholars in robotics, writing…

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#RoboCup2026 – humanoid league knockout stages

Robohub·Jul 6, 2026

This weekend saw the finale of the league competitions at RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, South Korea, with the winners in the small, middle, and…

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Noted scientists leave US for China, America turns 250: 5 weekend reads you missed

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 6, 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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‘We won’t tolerate this’: thousands in Germany protest against far-right AfD

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 4, 2026

Thousands of opponents of Germany’s far-right AfD took to the streets of Erfurt on Saturday and blocked roads to the party’s annual confere…

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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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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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The Download: Anthropic launches Claude Science, and California’s carbon manure math

MIT Technology Review·Jul 1, 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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Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product

MIT Technology Review·Jun 30, 2026

At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new pr…

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Agriculture is ready for AI, but its data isn’t

MIT Technology Review·Jun 30, 2026

Artificial intelligence is transforming what is possible in agriculture, but industry leaders should be wary of investing in AI without fir…

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Building tech in the world’s secret R&D hub

MIT Technology Review·Jun 30, 2026

Apple. Anthropic. Disney Research. Google. Meta. Microsoft. NVIDIA. OpenAI. Few places outside Silicon Valley can claim R&D hubs from a…

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Video Friday: Give Robots a Hand

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 26, 2026

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…

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Reinventing the zipper

MIT Technology Review·Jun 23, 2026

With an adaptable fastener designed at CSAIL, pitching a tent or adjusting the cast for a broken bone could be almost as easy as zipping yo…

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Ultrasound imaging turns a robot hand into a skillful mimic

MIT Technology Review·Jun 23, 2026

Our hands are the nimblest parts of our bodies, coordinating 34 muscles, 27 joints, and over 100 tendons and ligaments to perform countless…

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Stand Up for Research, Innovation, and Education

MIT Technology Review·Jun 23, 2026

Right now, MIT alumni and friends are voicing their support for: America’s scientific and technological leadership Merit-based admissions a…

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Russia considers fuel imports amid Ukraine’s strikes on refineries: newspaper

South China Morning Post Tech·Jun 23, 2026

Russia is considering fuel imports ‌and corresponding subsidies to cap prices as ways to mitigate supply disruptions of petrol and diesel c…

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AI brings object-level vision prosthetics closer to reality

Robohub·Jun 23, 2026

Image credit: By Jeff Dahl – Own work by uploader, Based on the public domain document: [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, Link By Stephanie Parker T…

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