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Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist

MIT Technology Review·May 11, 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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Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering

MIT Technology Review·May 11, 2026

Despite years of digitization, organizations capture less than one-third of the value expected from digital investments, according to McKin…

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Video Friday: AI Gives Robot Hands Human-Like Dexterity

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 9, 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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Manipulation

QNX to bring hands-on demonstrations and new research to the Robotics Summit

The Robot Report·May 8, 2026

QNX encourages visitors to stop by Booth 307 at the Robotics Summit & Expo to see its demonstrations firsthand. The post QNX to bring…

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Robot Talk Episode 155 – Making aerial robots smarter, with Melissa Greeff

Robohub·May 8, 2026

Claire chatted to Melissa Greeff from Queen’s University about autonomous navigation and learning for drones. Melissa Greeff is an As…

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New understanding of insect flight points way to stable flapping-wing robots

Robohub·May 7, 2026

By David Nutt The way bugs and birds flap their wings may look effortless, but the dynamics that keep them aloft are dizzyingly complex and…

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US firms add 109,000 jobs, the most since early 2025

South China Morning Post Tech·May 6, 2026

US companies boosted payrolls in April by the most in over a year, the latest evidence of stabilisation in the labour market. Private-secto…

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Robotically assembled building blocks could make construction more efficient and sustainable

Robohub·May 5, 2026

New research suggests constructing a simple building from interlocking subunits should be mechanically feasible and have a much smaller car…

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Phase stability regulator based on two dynamic parameters for autonomous mobile robots

The Robot Report·May 2, 2026

Autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, can benefit from a phase regulator with two real-time signals, according to a researcher. The post Phase…

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Cyber-Insecurity in the AI Era

MIT Technology Review·May 1, 2026

Cybersecurity was already under strain before AI entered the stack. Now, as AI expands the attack surface and adds new complexity, the limi…

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Operationalizing AI for Scale and Sovereignty

MIT Technology Review·May 1, 2026

Companies are taking control of their own data to tailor AI for their needs. The challenge lies in balancing ownership with the safe, trust…

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Robot Talk Episode 154 – Visual navigation in insects and robots, with Andrew Philippides

Robohub·May 1, 2026

Claire chatted to Andrew Philippides from the University of Sussex about what we can learn from ants and bees to improve robot navigation.…

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Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining

MIT Technology Review·May 1, 2026

Smack dab between Australia and South America, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel Rainier is cur…

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Trump’s mass firing just dealt another blow to American science

MIT Technology Review·May 1, 2026

This past week delivered another gut punch for science in the US. This time, the target was the National Science Foundation—a federal agenc…

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China’s manufacturing rise is here to stay. The West must recalibrate

South China Morning Post Tech·May 1, 2026

If the “China shock” of the early 2000s was about China catching up, then “China shock 2.0” is about the country redefining the boundaries…

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This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs

MIT Technology Review·Apr 30, 2026

The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI mod…

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The Download: the North Pole’s future and humanoid data

MIT Technology Review·Apr 30, 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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Gruesome details alleged in D4vd case: chainsaws, a paddling pool and corpse in Tesla

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 30, 2026

R&B singer D4vd used chainsaws he bought from Amazon to cut up the body of the teenage girl he murdered and left to rot in the trunk of his…

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Manipulation

Gradient-based planning for world models at longer horizons

Robohub·Apr 28, 2026

GRASP is a new gradient-based planner for learned dynamics (a “world model”) that makes long-horizon planning practical by (1) lifting the…

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Humanoid

Video Friday: Who Wins in Robot vs. Pro Ping-Pong Player?

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Apr 24, 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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Robot Talk Episode 153 – Origami-inspired robots, with Chenying Liu

Robohub·Apr 24, 2026

Claire chatted to Chenying Liu from University of Oxford about how a robot’s physical form can actively contribute to sensing, proces…

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Fresh reading

EU Robotics·Apr 24, 2026

This month the Newsletter brings news of two new white papers. The first from the Construction robotics community, the other from The MTC.…

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NextGen in Odense

EU Robotics·Apr 24, 2026

With the spring robotics conference season now in full swing, Denmark’s national robotics cluster in Odense will be joining forces next mon…

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ICRA 2026

EU Robotics·Apr 24, 2026

Members of the euRobotics community will find themselves in good company when they attend this year’s ICRA in Vienna. The associa…

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