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Amazon's Prime Day sale has delivered another very tempting robot vacuum deal, with the Dreame X50 Ultra dropping to just AU$1,479. That's a huge discount from its AU$2,999 launch price last year, and well below the usual AU$2,000 price we&
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For most of its history, cybersecurity has been a contest between human attackers and human defenders, throttled on both sides by how fast people can work. That throttle is gone. Over the past two years, generative AI crossed from the defender's side of the table to the attacker&
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Beni looks like just another cute little toy robot, but it's actually a roving camera – raring to follow you around and capture fun times. Oh, and it can jump. Designed by Mondo Robotics – whose team hails from DJI – the robot uses its two wheeled legs to run alongside
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The field of lithium batteries is currently dominated by Chinese companies like BYD and CATL. Not only do they sell the majority of batteries that go into electric vehicles and energy storage projects worldwide, they’re also opening up new factories in your backyard. When companies outside China try to
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Humanoid robots learned to walk years ago. The thing still tripping them up is the hand. 1X has given its NEO home robot new hands, and they are the most interesting thing about it. A robot can stride across a stage and still be useless in a kitchen. Lifting a
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Wipro PARI (Precision Automation and Robotics India), a part of Wipro Infrastructure Engineering, has donated and commissioned a industrial robot (FANUC R-2000iB/210F six-axis) to the Indo-Swiss Centre of Excellence (ISCE), Pune. The robot was formally inaugurated last week, July 4th 2026, and will provide nearly 200 students with hands-on
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First the Royal Navy shoved a robot boat out of a transport plane at 1,300 feet. Then its maker became Europe’s newest defence unicorn. Kraken Technology Group, a British maker of uncrewed surface vessels, has raised $175m (€152.9m) in a Series B round. It values the company
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Two robots that look roughly like people just reached inside a live animal and removed an organ. No film studio staged the scene. It happened in a lab in California, and it is a first for medicine. Surgeons at the University of California San Diego used two teleoperated humanoid robots
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Internally, it felt like momentum. Users were active, the interview feedback sounded positive, and feature requests kept piling up fast enough to create the impression that the market was pulling the product forward. Commercially, very little underneath was compounding properly. Users struggled through onboarding, disappeared after testing, and rarely converted
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As the race for artificial-intelligence supremacy heats up, Beijing is considering tightening its grip on homegrown technology. American companies have a new AI addiction: cheaper Chinese models. But as the race for artificial-intelligence supremacy heats up, Beijing is considering tightening its grip on homegrown technology. Across Silicon Valley, models made
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Aidoptation can now test a fully self-driving car at highway speed on Belgian public roads. It is the first Level 4 permit of its kind in the European Union. The company announced the approval, which covers 100 km of the E313 and E314 motorways in Limburg. Level 4 means the
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While the world watched the World Cup, robots played their own version in Incheon. RoboCup 2026 ran from 30 June to 6 July in Songdo, drawing teams from dozens of countries. When the whistle blew, one name was behind every winner. Teams using robots from Beijing’s Booster Robotics swept
