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Applied Intuition has been awarded a contract by the @USNavy to scale Data Engine across its fleet. As the infrastructure layer for maritime autonomy, Data Engine collects operational data through passive navigation capabilities installed…

AIR Lab developed this lightweight platform to enable rapid aerial deployment of environmental sensors. The design uses multi-functional components to switch between passive autorotation and autonomous aquatic navigation, allowing it to…

BOOM 🚨 Lars Moravy, Tesla's VP of Vehicle Engineering, just shut down claims that the Rocket variant of the new Roadster can never reach production 🔥 Pushing back against critics who insist a thruster-equipped sports car is pure fantasy,…

BOOOM 🚨 Lars Moravy, Tesla's VP of Vehicle Engineering, has debunked the false claim that the rocket-powered Roadster cannot make it to production 🔥 Responding to skepticism about whether a hovering sports car is actually buildable, Lars…

Coca-Cola's robot deployment just went from pilot to pattern. After proving out Spot in Barcelona, @CocaColaEP is scaling it globally. It's already live in East Kilbride, Scotland - locating air leaks and automating condition monitoring…

BOOM 🎐 SpaceX just set a sky-high bar for Tesla’s earnings call later today 🔥 From Starship’s next milestones and Starlink’s expansion to massive AI infrastructure plans, new products, and extraordinary revenue ambitions, SpaceX’s Q3…

🇺🇸BREAKING: Florida Polytechnic University Police Department became the 1st law enforcement agency in the country to introduce a manned electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle into its operations. The aircraft, dubbed Astro, is…

Curtiss-Wright integrates Link 22 and MAVLink protocols into its TCG HUNTR gateway to connect crewed and autonomous defense assets across land, sea, and air. Read more: https://t.co/pvQlpxhGyD @lantronix https://t.co/eUbsH1Slvd

STRONG SIGNAL 🚨 Buried in the fine print of Tesla’s latest filing is a massive tell: the company expects Optimus, future bots, and their “accompanying services” to become an essential pillar of its business 🔥 Tesla is explicitly…

コマースロボティクス、WMSに荷姿管理機能-https://t.co/I6gqbZti6y コマースロボティクスはWMS「Air Logi」にBtoB向け荷姿管理機能を開発。パレット・ケース・ボール・バラの数量換算を自動化し、ECと卸・小売向け出荷の一元管理や在庫管理の効率化を図る。12月提供予定。 https://t.co/YGZhF8No6d

MicroVision and Robinson Unmanned are collaborating to integrate MOVIA Air Plus lidar technology with the SPIRIT UAS, advancing real-time airborne mapping for commercial and defense applications. Read more: https://t.co/AQ2n8p2l6b

In this interview, UMag Solutions highlights how high-sensitivity drone-based magnetic sensing detects anomalies created by buried and submerged ferrous targets, enabling real-time detection from the air without direct line of sight.…

Zero demos... AI writes its own robot programs. Mastering complex tasks in two hours. RAX is an agentic robotics system from Harvard's Yilun Du lab that scales online exploration episodes instead of demonstrations or model size. Using a…

🛞 Ever wonder why a Tesla’s acceleration hits like a freight train the exact moment you tap the pedal? 👀 Let’s pop the hood on Tesla’s relentless motor engineering and see what’s really making that happen 🔥 ⚡ Tesla pairs complementary…

When Alef welcomed Tesla to the flying car race, it pointed to one fundamental technical difference. Alef lifts off with distributed electric propulsion, or DEP, while Tesla's upcoming Roadster relies on cold-gas thrusters. That sounds…

Alef Aeronautics, the Silicon Valley startup behind the world's first street-legal flying car, has threw down a cheeky challenge to @Tesla 🔥 The company dropped a video showing its all-electric Model A lifting straight off the pavement…

ENGINEERING NEWS 🔋 Tesla has designed a breathable battery bandage that stops punctures without leaving a dead zone behind 🔥 Deep inside a lithium-ion cell, a thin strip of tape stands guard over one of the riskiest spots in the whole…

Researchers at Purdue University developed a drone system that replaces depleted batteries mid-air using a supplier drone carrying a fresh battery. The system uses RTK-GPS for precise positioning and a motor-driven belt mechanism to…

Yesterday morning @jason and I talked for the first time in a while. He is the reason I had the first ride in the first Roadster. Is good friend of Elon’s. He told me that as cool as the new Roadster is that when we see Optimus it is even…

"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." 🛞 The Tesla Roadster launch event has wrapped up, and here is everything you should know from the presentation 🔥 Right out of the gate, flying cars are officially real, and what Tesla and…

After an ongoing deployment in Barcelona, @CocaColaEP is scaling Spot globally. Spot is already up and running in East Kilbride, Scotland, locating air leaks and automating condition monitoring rounds. https://t.co/vKmQnIcpRc

GOOD NEWS 🚨 Tesla has turned an ordinary chimney into a crease killer for battery electrodes 🔋 Before the battery in your Tesla stores a single mile of range, its electrodes get squeezed between rollers running at around 200°C. The thin…

Jensen Huang flew to London this week and didn't fund a chip order. He funded five very specific bets: molecule prediction, infrastructure timelines, algorithm discovery, disease biology, and quantum error correction. The deployment sits…

DoorDash is bringing autonomous drones into food delivery with its new DoorDash Air initiative. Early trials have delivered restaurant orders in under five minutes, with Chipotle, Popeyes, and other eateries participating. The company…

In consumer software, good enough means shipping a beta and patching regressions over the air. In automotive autonomy, good enough is an auditable safety case that proves deterministic fault containment to statutory regulators. Statistical…

Intel's D270 skips HBM entirely: up to 480GB LPDDR5X, 1.5TB/s, 1.3 PFLOPS FP8, 350W air-cooled PCIe. That is about a fifth of an HBM3E card's 8TB/s, but holds a 300B-param model in FP8. No price, no independent benchmarks yet. Memory…

ENGINEERING NEWS 🚨 Tesla has designed an ingenious solution that puts wasted space to work: by filling an idle gap with magnetic material, it can stand in for an entire inductor 💡 Every EV onboard charger has to filter electrical noise…

AI: Long Road to AI Drone Warfare, on land, air & sea. AI-RTZ #1237 …the Army’s desert test vs record defense VC, Congress funds by state, smaller nations leapfrog, & US vs China. https://t.co/mDbcby1qr2 https://t.co/CYYif0rzXF

Before long, a humanoid will do your Saturday chores In the demo, a clothed Unitree G1 works through the chores on its own...Corn out of the fridge into the air fryer. Jeans folded. Duvet spread across the bed--It feel like a household…

A drone that flies, drives, and switches modes in 0.1 seconds: [Build it yourself: CAD + parts ⬇️] No extra actuators, no deformation, just clever mechanics and full control. DUAWLFIN is a ground-aerial robot with unified actuation: Flying…

ENGINEERING NEWS ⚙️ Tesla has come up with a clever trick to build the hidden wall in front of your feet as one piece instead of 50+ metal ones 🆒 A typical car dash can take more than 50 metal parts and over 100 spot welds to build,…

ENGINEERING NEWS 🥵 Tesla has found a slick fix for heat pumps that run out of heat in deep cold: it runs the compressor deliberately inefficiently, turning its own motor and inverter into a built-in heater 🔥 Heat pumps are the main…

Tesla Korea CEO Seo Young-deuk has announced plans to seek formal government approval to expand FSD capabilities to Tesla vehicles manufactured in China. Right now, access to the feature in South Korea largely depends on where the car was…

LG Electronics will supply chillers for 5GW of AI data centers in the US and Canada under a long-term deal with Air Control Concepts; value and schedule undisclosed. Omdia sees AIDC power demand going from 226GW in 2026 to 334GW in 2027.…

IREN continues to come up in our conversations with neocloud customers, and usually for the wrong reasons. In Prince George and Mackenzie in Northern BC, Canada, we’ve heard the stories: multi-day power outages, network upgrades, storage…

This looks like a giant dragonfly, but every movement here is mechanical. Festo’s BionicOpter weighs only 175 grams, yet its four wings span 63 cm. They beat around 15 to 20 times per second, and each wing can twist up to 90 degrees. That…

This hand is built for speed. And it can catch a ball in mid-air. 🤯🖐️ PSYONIC’s Ability Hand uses high-speed sensing and control to catch, manipulate and react to objects in real time. The impressive part? This is not just about strength…

FSD NEWS 🇩🇪 Germany is considering approving Tesla’s FSD Supervised on its own national territory if an EU-wide consensus cannot be reached 🔥 Transport Minister Steffen Bilger confirmed that while an EU-wide framework remains the ideal…

SKYLANDX has unveiled the MetaCam Air 3, combining an in-house-developed survey-focused LiDAR, high-resolution imaging, and multiple positioning workflows for handheld 3D reality-capture and surveying applications. https://t.co/8RqFArrYwS

This robot can jump across the ground for about 25 minutes then switch to flight when the terrain becomes difficult. It’s called HOP-1 a hybrid hopping and flying robot built by Hong Kong-based HopTo Technology from research developed at…

This robot just got a serious upgrade. 🏒🤖 Xander Naumenko upgraded his air hockey robot with new motors and a wider range of motion and the result looks seriously fast. Better movement. Faster reactions. More coverage. Could robots…

ドアダッシュ、飲食配送に自社開発ドローン-https://t.co/5rbSW4JUAc ドアダッシュは、無人航空機によるドローン配送「DoorDash Air」を発表。北カリフォルニアで試験配送を開始し、平均5分未満で配達。自動配送プラットフォームと連携し、配送網を強化する。 https://t.co/IOdKn7q8H4

Tornyol is developing a tiny 40-gram drone that uses ultrasonic sonar to detect mosquitoes by their wingbeat signatures. You define a protection area, and the drone autonomously patrols it, intercepting detected insects mid-air with its…

This robot is Spiderman stuntman! 🪂 That's Sand Flea from Boston Dynamics jumps 10 meters high. In 2021 Boston Dynamics released a video of their jumping robot in action. Sand Flea can clear a 10-meter obstacle (about 30 feet) and is…

The prices of humanoid robots vary widely. This comparison illustrates the price range in 2026, spanning from budget-friendly entry-level platforms to much more advanced, full-sized systems. From lowest to highest price: Noetix BUMI:…

Order my usual. Three words, texted to a phone number, and DoorDash's new agent already knows you mean the Friday night protein bowl without you specifying a restaurant, a size, or a single topping. That's one piece of what DoorDash…

Engineers at MIT and EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have designed a robot that can swim underwater, and flap out of the water to continue flying through air, much like a diving bird. The robot can help scientists study the mechanics that…

📢 We recently welcomed UMag Solutions to UST, developer of the world's most sensitive drone magnetic payloads for detecting landmines, naval mines, UXO and submarines in real time from the air. View the UMag UST profile ↓…

TL;DR 🕗 For a quick two-minute breakdown, the core takeaway is simple: Traditional wings only work when a car is already flying at high speed, but cars need grip most when slowing down for tight corners. Tesla’s new patent solves that…

What if a robot could move through the air with the precision of a flying machine? At IROS 2026, RAI Institute is showcasing its custom-built robots, including the U M V, Roadrunner and Koala grippers. The Roadrunner demo is especially…

HARP is a modular platform where heterogeneous aerial robots can physically reconfigure during missions. Scout robots map environments, while rover and payload modules navigate difficult terrain before autonomously assembling into ground…

Spider-bot that became a welder! 👨🏼‍🏭 Let's dive deeper in this system from Diden Robotics. Every signal in this particular control system is read against ground. When an arc strikes and breaks, it can produce a momentary voltage of…

TL;DR ⏳ Now you see it, now you don't 🧙 Tesla's new patent (US 2026/0285418 A1) gives the Roadster a wing that vanishes into the bodywork, then erupts into 700 kg of race-car downforce on command 🔥 🫥 Invisible on the street: The wing…

Drone that can swim! 🏊🏼 Scientists in China have developed a special drone called TJ-FlyingFish that can both fly in the air and dive underwater. This lightweight drone, weighing only 1,6 kilograms, has four rotor arms that help it move…

Everyone is still arguing about parameter counts while the real efficiency gains come from a different lever: what a weight is allowed to be. Moondream just shipped Parakeet Redux, a speech to text model built by compressing NVIDIA's…

Software-defined architecture is hitting tactical vehicles for the same reason commercial OEMs use it. Decoupling autonomy stacks from chassis hardware lets teams update perception and control loops over the air without recertifying the…

Two very different projects. Same kind of engineering instinct. The upper clip uses a cockroach with a very minimal mechanical setup. The lower one takes a quadcopter and surrounds it with tracked frames so the same machine can move on…

Pair this up w/ Atlas-960E liquid-cooled SuperPoD for 2027Q3 launch, industry's 1st NPO SuperPoD using 7.2T NPO transceiver. SuperPoD size reduced to 4096 (vs 16k planned in 2025/9). Expecting huge gain in MFU, trainin, decoding &…

CEO of Intel, Lip-Bu Tan, mentions memory, power, high speed connectivity, optical, and liquid cooling as critical semiconductor supply chain constraints: "I think a lot of people didn't realize — at the beginning of last year, I said…

CEO of Intel, Lip Bu-Tan, mentions memory, power, high speed connectivity, optical, and liquid cooling as critical semiconductor supply chain constraints: "I think a lot of people didn't realize — at the beginning of last year, I said…

CEO of Intel, Lip Bu-Tan, mentions memory, power, high speed connectivity, optical, and liquid coolings and critical semiconductor supply chain constraints: "I think a lot of people didn't realize — at the beginning of last year, I said…

A new strategic partnership between AIR and Elmo Motion Control will integrate high-performance motion control solutions directly into AIR's Heavy-Lift VTOL-capable uncrewed cargo platform. https://t.co/aehyb8vc37

Regulated enterprises can't use cloud AI for security red-teaming. The providers block it. Alex Ellis just wrote about why his company bought four DGX Sparks instead of continuing on cloud. The total cost was roughly $18,800 for four units…

Hundreds of drones, built by different vendors, tasked with one mission. Before they deploy, someone has to check the pieces work together, and today that usually happens at a live event, often the first time these systems actually talk to…

GMO AIR、TechShareとロボット事業で資本提携-https://t.co/NOmVhbMjAb GMO AI&ロボティクス商事とTechShareは資本業務提携で基本合意。ユニツリー製ロボットの国内販売や保守、技術支援で連携し、物流・工場などへの導入拡大を目指す。

Anthropic's Sept threat report: a China-based actor built about 16 air-defense-suppression modules with Claude, one scenario listing 12 Taiwan targets; per the report Alibaba ran 151 million distillation queries. YC's Garry Tan says US…

Autonomous driving stacks cannot rely solely on over-the-air software updates to fix underlying sensor calibration drift. When road vibration tilts a solid-state LiDAR emitter by 0.2 degrees over 50,000 kilometers, the perception algorithm…

This drone does not carry objects. It grabs them. 🤯🚁 Meet Ring-Rotor, a retractable quadrotor developed by researchers at Zhejiang University. Instead of using a robotic arm, hook or cable, the drone changes its own shape and surrounds…

A humanoid on the monkey bars! 🐒 The robot from the @leggedrobotics Lab at ETH Zürich jumps up to the structure, swings across it, and drops down to a landing. Most legged robots build a terrain map first, and a heightfield is the wrong…

AI inference is about to create a second trillion dollar supply chain because inference is expected to rise from 30% of demand in 2023 to 75% by 2030 (Save this). That means every chatbot, coding assistant, search engine and AI agent will…

Top stories in tech today: - Apple Watch to listen and take notes - Air taxis are taking off in Texas - Apple’s foldable iPhone lands at $1,999 - California cracks down on addictive tech for kids https://t.co/yERcanJdEw

Defense technology provider AEVEX expands its multi-domain portfolio by acquiring BlackSea Technologies to combine air, surface, and subsea autonomous systems. Read more: https://t.co/pMzsraRqVB

With @Cybertruck, we introduced & scaled many automotive firsts 48V architecture: 4x lower current that enables thinner, lighter wiring True Steer-by-Wire with no mechanical steering link, enabling variable steering response Combined with…

Meet Ring-Rotor, a retractable quadrotor from Zhejiang University that turns its airframe into a gripper. The drone reshapes mid-air to envelop payloads, shrinks 31% for confined spaces, and eliminates bulky robotic arms, hooks, and…

Japan now has an ambulance for humanoid robots. GMO AIR’s new maintenance vehicle carries diagnostic equipment, spare parts, repair tools and even a replacement humanoid. An engineer can repair robots on site. If that fails, the machine…

Researchers at AMOLF in Amsterdam developed a robot that can walk, hop, and swim without a computer, sensors, or software. Its legs are soft tubes that wiggle when air continuously flows through them, similar to inflatable tube dancers.…

🇺🇸 Police drones are now tracking grab-and-run theft suspects from the air in California. Video from Concord shows a drone following 2 suspected shoplifters as they run through a Ross parking lot carrying bags, giving officers a live…

Rubin R100 has reportedly taped out on TSMC N3P with 8-Hi HBM4, 16 TB/s bandwidth, 1200W TDP, per stridingtech; unconfirmed. NVLink 6 hits 3.6 TB/s bidirectional, OEM sampling late Q4 2026. At 1200W air cooling is out. Racks change before…

A robot that swims underwater, then flies straight out of it! 🦢 Water is 1,000 times denser than air. Moving through one or the other normally means two completely different machines. Around 100 bird species disagree. Loons, gulls,…

I was thinking about this all wrong On the day that Grok @bot can read my lists like https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ does I will switch everything over to Grok Bot, which may be the product of the year. Except the Tesla Roadster might beat it,…

After spending 5 hours riding in the Cybercab, here is some feedback for the Tesla team/some features I would love to see in the vehicle: • Manual air recirculation: At one point, I was stuck in traffic behind a large, smelly gas truck…

How do you update 10,000 robots at once? You don’t blindly push an update to all of them. Fleet-scale software updates typically follow a controlled rollout: → Build new software → Test and validate → Deploy to a small group → Monitor…

What if a robot could grab objects like a chameleon catching a bug? Festo’s FlexShapeGripper uses compressed air, water and an elastic silicone cap that wraps around objects of different shapes. Unlike traditional rigid grippers, it can…

Meet Tiangong 3.0, the full-size humanoid from Beijing’s X-Humanoid. It stands 1.69 m tall, weighs 62 kg and has 43 degrees of freedom. Its high torque joints are built for explosive whole-body motion, and Beijing sources specifically list…

🇺🇸 The Pentagon is extending Middle East deployments into 2027 as roughly 50,000 U.S. troops remain across the region. Warships, air-defense units, fighter squadrons and paratroopers are being kept deployed longer than originally…

Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash. By Hasan Ayaz, Drexel University; Ewart J. de Visser, United States Air Force Academy; Frank Krueger, George Mason University, and Yigit Topoglu, United States Air Force Academy People become more…