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Tesla Is Redirecting Its Focus From Classic EVs to Building Robots

Tesla has concluded its 2025 fiscal year earnings call, revealing that its profits nearly halved compared to the previous year. The company reported a GAAP net income of $3.8 billion, down from $7.1 billion in 2024, marking a 46% decrease. Yikes. From Electric Cars to Full Autonomy with AI and Robotics That’s a tough situation […]

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Chinese Researchers Developed a Chip in Ultra-thin Fibers for Smart Clothing

Chinese researchers have created a flexible, hair-thin fiber chip that enables smart clothing with interactive displays, according to Xinhua News Agency, a TV BRICS partner. Each centimeter of the fiber holds about 100,000 transistors—comparable to the processing power of a modern computer when extended to one meter. The chip can handle digital and analog signals

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Researchers Packed a Powerful Computer Into One Thread

Imagine a normal-looking shirt that tracks health, environment, temperature, and travel info in real time. That same ultra-thin fiber could also help treat neurological disorders and assist in robotic surgery. These possibilities come from a groundbreaking new “fiber chip.” Fudan University Unveils Ultra-Thin Fiber Chip Researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai have developed complex electronic

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10,000 Brain Scans Explain How Aging Impairs Memory

Episodic memory—the ability to remember personal experiences and past events—tends to weaken with age. While this decline is well documented, the underlying mechanisms have long been unclear. A recent study helps shed light on how and why this process occurs. A team at the University of Oslo studied whether age-related memory loss is universal or

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Microsoft Research unveils The Rho-Alpha Model For Robotics

To operate effectively in dynamic, unstructured settings, robots require AI trained on diverse sensory data. Microsoft Corp. today introduced Rho-alpha (ρα), the first robotics-focused model derived from its Phi family of vision-language models. Rho-Alpha Boosts Robot Autonomy with VLA Capabilities According to Microsoft, vision-language-action (VLA) models allow physical AI systems to sense, reason, and act

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Brain Scans May Assist in Regaining Movement After Paralysis

A brain cap paired with intelligent algorithms could potentially allow paralyzed patients to translate their thoughts into movement—without the need for surgery. Individuals with spinal cord injuries frequently lose partial or full movement in their arms or legs. Often, the nerves in the limbs remain functional, and the brain still generates normal signals. The issue

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The Robot Speaks with Correctly Coordinated Lip Motions

People direct nearly half of their attention to their conversation partner’s lip movements. In contrast, robots typically have only simplified “caricature” lips and mouths that don’t move in sync with the sounds they produce via their speakers. Yuhang Hu and his team at Columbia University saw this as a major limitation, describing facial expression as

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Scientists Developed a Robotic Hand that Detaches and Walks on its Own

Researchers have created a robotic hand that can separate from its arm and independently move to access objects beyond the robot’s reach. Unlike traditional human-like hands, the new design uses a symmetrical structure to grip objects from multiple angles. The device comes in two variants, with five or six identical fingers evenly arranged around a

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Electronic Tattoos can Warn of Excessive Workload

A wireless electronic tattoo created by U.S. researchers may help tackle overwork and reduce illnesses linked to intense mental strain. The research describing the device was published this Thursday, the 29th, in the journal Device. It explains how the technology—known as an e-tattoo—operates, including its ability to record brainwave activity without the need for traditional

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Engineers Build Intelligent Robodog Equipped with AI

What happens when you merge Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa with Boston Dynamics’ four-legged robots? The result is “Astro,” an intelligent, hearing-and-seeing robodog. Researchers at Florida Atlantic University’s Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotics Laboratory (MPCR), part of the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, are bringing

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