The UK’s Great Western Railway introduced the nation’s first-ever battery-only powered train for passenger service, operating on a five-mile return route in West London.
The GWR Class 230 battery train will carry passengers on the…
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Faraday Future Launches Three Series of Robot Products in Las Vegas at the Annual NADA Show
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc has announced the establishment of FF EAI-Robotics Inc., headquartered in California and officially launched its first batch of Embodied AI (EAI) humanoid and bionic robots —FF Futurist (full-size…
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Fungus helps transform old mattress waste into sustainable insulation
Most people lose sleep over a lumpy mattress. Dr. Peter Nguyen and his team at Swinburne University in Australia are losing sleep over where to send those mattresses when we’re done with them.
Daily, thousands of used mattresses are simply…
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Interview with Mario Tremblay, CEO of RobotShop
1. What motivated you, over 20 years ago, to create RobotShop, and what fundamental problem were you trying to solve at the time?
To understand the genesis of RobotShop, you need to go back to my past as a combat engineer in the Canadian…
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Neura Robotics and Drees & Sommer launch strategic partnership for robotics-ready buildings
Neura Robotics, a developer of cognitive robotics and physical AI, has agreed a partnership with Drees & Sommer, an international consulting firm for construction and infrastructure. Together, the two companies aim not only to plan and operate…
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Nightfood Holdings: Transforming Hotels and Guest Experiences Through Robotics
Many hotels face the same common problems: too few staff members, skyrocketing operational costs, and outdated systems. Because attentive employees and operational efficiency are essential to creating a positive guest experience, visitors may not…
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Autonomous construction startup Bedrock Robotics raises $270 million in Series B funding
Bedrock Robotics, an autonomous construction technology startup, has raised $270 million in Series B funding co-led by CapitalG and the Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation from Xora, 8VC, Eclipse, Emergence Capital, Perry Creek Capital,…
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SMART and NUS pioneer neural blueprint for human-like intelligence in soft robots
• A newly developed AI control system using neuron-inspired learning enables soft robotic arms to learn a broad set of motions once and adapt instantly to changing conditions without retraining
• Inspired by the way the human brain…Continue Reading
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Waste heat to be turned into electricity with thermoelectric material
Researchers from Japan have made a new system that can convert waste heat into electricity. The new candidate, the mixed-semimetal MoSi2, can be used to develop efficient thermoelectric devices.
“We wanted to explore new transverse…
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Jupiter found smaller, flatter after Juno reshapes old measurements
For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape. That understanding is now being revised.
Using fresh data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have…
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