French automaker Renault has announced it will start manufacturing long-range strike drones in partnership with defense contractor Turgis Gaillard.
These drones will bear a resemblance to Iran’s Shahed drone, a low-cost loitering munitions…

French automaker Renault has announced it will start manufacturing long-range strike drones in partnership with defense contractor Turgis Gaillard.
These drones will bear a resemblance to Iran’s Shahed drone, a low-cost loitering munitions…

Volvo has unveiled the EX60 as the world’s first electric vehicle built around Google Gemini, marking a major shift in how cars integrate artificial intelligence.
Revealed globally on January 21, 2026, the EX60 debuts Volvo’s new SPA3…

Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped with the new Spot Cam 2. | Source: Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics Inc. yesterday released the 5.1 update to its Spot quadruped and Orbit, the company’s fleet management and data analysis software. Boston…

A research team led by Prof. Li Bing from the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators, has overcome a longstanding bottleneck in refrigeration technology. Their findings, published in Nature on…

Researchers have discovered a metallic material with the highest thermal conductivity measured among metals. This challenges long-standing assumptions about the limits of heat transport in metallic materials.
The research team from UCLA Samueli…

Researchers in Germany have unveiled an ultra-fast light switch made of very thin semiconductor layers, that runs around 10,000 times faster than today’s electronic transistors.
Designed by a team of physicists at the University of…

Biologists have finally solved a centuries-old mystery regarding how birds maintain sharp eyesight despite their retinas lacking a direct blood supply. This means that bird retinas work without oxygen.
Aarhus University in Denmark has found…

Humanoid Robots Will Stall at Pilot Scale, While Polyfunctional Robots Win the Warehouse
STAMFORD, Conn., January 21, 2026 — Through 2028, less than 100 companies will progress humanoid robot proofs of concept beyond…

More than 200 years ago, the steam boiler helped spark the Industrial Revolution. Since then, steam has been the lifeblood of industrial activity around the world. Today the production of steam—created by burning gas, oil, or coal to boil…

Rho-alpha is designed to help robots including humanoids become more autonomous. Source: Microsoft
To be useful in more dynamic and less structured environments, robots need artificial intelligence trained on a variety of sensory inputs….