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How small businesses can leverage AI

MIT Technology Review·Jun 2, 2026

This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To recei…

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Microsoft to unveil new AI models and Windows improvements at Build

The Verge AI·Jun 1, 2026

{"#text":"Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this week in a bid to win back developers at its Build conference. I've been attending Buil…

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ICRA 2026 is here

EU Robotics·Jun 1, 2026

Members of the euRobotics community find themselves in good company as they attend ICRA in Vienna this month. The association is present an…

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This DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic “Air-Muscles” Instead of Motors

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 31, 2026

In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to bui…

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Video Friday: Extreme Omnidirectional Robot

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 29, 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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Software becoming the biggest bottleneck to physical AI innovation, finds QNX research

The Robot Report·May 29, 2026

As robots enter more unconstrained environments, software and security are becoming higher priorities, a QNX survey found. The post Softwar…

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The deadly Ebola outbreak is proving difficult to control

MIT Technology Review·May 29, 2026

The alert was raised on May 5. Four health-care workers in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo had died from an unkn…

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How a new extraction process could unlock the world’s lithium

MIT Technology Review·May 28, 2026

Researchers say they’ve found a new way to extract lithium, a crucial metal used in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles…

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The AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season

MIT Technology Review·May 28, 2026

It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, when former Google CEO E…

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Handle with care: Soft robot gripper picks ripe fruit without bruising

Robohub·May 27, 2026

Cornell researchers used stretchable fiber-optic sensors to create a soft robot gripper that can predict the ripeness of strawberries by to…

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Robot Talk Episode 157 – Generating new robot designs, with Josie Hughes

Robohub·May 22, 2026

Claire chatted to Josie Hughes from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne about using AI to develop new designs for robotic manipulators…

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Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 21, 2026

When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware, a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the…

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Robotics Café brings together autonomous robot practitioners

Robohub·May 20, 2026

The recently launched Robotics Café is a weekly online seminar series to bring together researchers, students and industry practitioners wo…

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Robots Could Turn E-Waste Into a Source of Legacy Chips

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 19, 2026

Electronic waste is moving up on regulatory agendas in 2026. New European waste-shipment rules, expanded recycling fees on products with no…

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What Makes a Job Dull, Dirty, or Dangerous?

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 18, 2026

For years, the field of robotics has used the terms “dull, dirty, and dangerous” (DDD) to describe the types of tasks or jobs where robots…

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Table tennis robot defeats some of world’s best players – why this has major implications for robotics

Robohub·May 18, 2026

Ace rotates its paddle as it prepares to return the ball back to its human opponent, Yamato Kawamata, during a match in December 2025. Cred…

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Agentic AI for Robot Teams

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 18, 2026

This presentation highlights recent efforts at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to advance agentic AI for collaborative robotic…

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Establishing AI and data sovereignty in the age of autonomous systems

MIT Technology Review·May 14, 2026

When generative AI first moved from research labs into real-world business applications, enterprises made a tacit bargain: “Capability now,…

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The Download: deepfake porn’s stolen bodies and AI sharing private numbers

MIT Technology Review·May 14, 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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The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn

MIT Technology Review·May 14, 2026

When Jennifer got a job doing research for a nonprofit in 2023, she ran her new professional headshot through a facial recognition program.…

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Developing active and flexible microrobots

Robohub·May 13, 2026

By C Huygelen Leiden researchers Professor Daniela Kraft and Mengshi Wei have created microscopic robots that move without sensors, softwar…

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Data centers are coming for rural America

The Verge AI·May 13, 2026

{"#text":"At its peak, the Androscoggin paper mill in Jay, Maine, a rural town about 67 miles northwest of Portland, employed about 1,500 p…

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Hello Robot Sets the Standard for Practical, Safe Home Robots

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 12, 2026

Many roboticists (and at least one robotics journalist) have been seduced by the dream of a robot butler. And the rampant popularity of vid…

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The Download: a Nobel winner on AI, and the case for fixing everything

MIT Technology Review·May 12, 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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