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This week I’ve been at SXSW London. There’s been music, film, and a lot—and I mean a lot—of talk about AI. I also had the opportunity to si…
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This week I’ve been at SXSW London. There’s been music, film, and a lot—and I mean a lot—of talk about AI. I also had the opportunity to si…
Read summary →EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic has called for practical approaches and “meaningful discussion” to tackle the growing trade concerns between…
Read summary →{"#text":"At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives, including a su…
Read summary →MassRobotics awarded prizes to university teams and showcased healthcare innovators, physical AI developers, and startups. The post Boston…
Read summary →Deborah Lupton / Pop Chips / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0. Henrik I Christensen, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at University of…
Read summary →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…
Read summary →Image credit: HIMS / Nature Synthesis. In a paper published in Nature Synthesis, researchers led by Professor Timothy Noël of the Universit…
Read summary →This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To recei…
Read summary →{"#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…
Read summary →Members of the euRobotics community find themselves in good company as they attend ICRA in Vienna this month. The association is present an…
Read summary →In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to bui…
Read summary →Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…
Read summary →As robots enter more unconstrained environments, software and security are becoming higher priorities, a QNX survey found. The post Softwar…
Read summary →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…
Read summary →Researchers say they’ve found a new way to extract lithium, a crucial metal used in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles…
Read summary →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…
Read summary →Cornell researchers used stretchable fiber-optic sensors to create a soft robot gripper that can predict the ripeness of strawberries by to…
Read summary →Claire chatted to Josie Hughes from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne about using AI to develop new designs for robotic manipulators…
Read summary →When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware, a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the…
Read summary →The recently launched Robotics Café is a weekly online seminar series to bring together researchers, students and industry practitioners wo…
Read summary →Electronic waste is moving up on regulatory agendas in 2026. New European waste-shipment rules, expanded recycling fees on products with no…
Read summary →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…
Read summary →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…
Read summary →This presentation highlights recent efforts at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to advance agentic AI for collaborative robotic…
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