When past generations imagined the best version of the future, it was one of leisure. Advertisements, cartoonists, and pulp novelists dared us to dream…
Category: Engineering
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Trade Unions Alarmed by Robots Designed to Do Blue Collar Work
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Is the whole Universe just a simulation?
The simulation hypothesis is a modern attempt to use logic and observations about technology to finally answer these questions and prove that we’re probably living in something like a giant video game.
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Chinese firm’s new pyramid-shaped PC runs AI locally, not on the cloud
M5Stack has unveiled its 24 TOPS AI Pyramid Pro pyramid-shaped desktop personal computer. Apart from its novel design, this new piece of hardware is specifically designed to run artificial intelligence (AI) locally rather than in the…
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China’s ‘artificial photosynthesis’ method converts CO2 into petrol
A team of Chinese scientists has unveiled a breakthrough method that turns carbon dioxide and water into valuable chemicals, including the fundamental components of petrol, using sunlight as the energy source.
Drawing inspiration from
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North American robot orders rise by 6.6% in 2025, reports A3
Non-automotive orders surpassed automotive robot orders in 2025, says A3. Source: Adobe Stock
After a drop in 2024, North American robot orders rose in 2025, according to the Association for Advancing Automation, or A3. The organization said this…
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2,200-year-old bone suggests elephants crushed enemies in Punic War
Although elephants appear in ancient texts, on coins, and in depictions of the legendary Punic Wars, a lack of skeletal remains has prevented archaeologists from making definitive claims. They could not prove that these magnificent beasts were…
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KinetIQ framework from Humanoid orchestrates robot fleets
KinetIQ is a single AI model that can control different morphologies and end-effector designs. | Source: Humanoid
Humanoid, a developer of humanoid robots and mobile manipulators, this week introduced KinetIQ. This is the London-based company’s…
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Researchers create ‘impossible’ material that defies physics theory
Researchers at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) have defied long-standing material theories by developing a brand-new class of material known as a “compleximer.”
This amber-colored substance achieves a combination of traits…
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Geely pairs 93 kW methanol engine with electric motor in new hybrid EV
Chinese automotive giant Geely is expanding its Galaxy Starshine 6 lineup with a new methanol plug-in hybrid, according to China’s latest Ministry of Industry and Information Technology filing.
The model combines a 1.5-liter methanol…
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Milky Way’s central black hole could be dense dark matter core: Study
At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars there swing around it at breakneck speeds, gas heats up and glows, and even light itself seems to bend. For years, astronomers have treated this object as a…
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