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iRobot just announced its first ever non-robotic floor cleaner. The $399 Roomba Electro Plus is a 5-in-1 hard-floor cleaner that combines vacuuming, mopping, and disinfecting, but you have to operate it yourself. The company also announced updates to its line of Roomba robot vacuums, launching five new models with higher
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A former Tesla scientist who helped build the intelligence behind Elon Musk’s Optimus robot wants to do it all again from Paris, only this time for Europe. Rémi Cadene, chief executive and co-founder of the startup UMA, has unveiled plans for a lightweight, AI-powered humanoid called Northstar, Bloomberg first
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Chinese robotics firm Agibot has launched a range of humanoid robots designed to look, move, and sound like human beings in the UK business-to-business (B2B) market. The Shanghai-based company, founded in 2023 by two former Huawei engineers, hosted a launch event in London on June 30, 2026, with several of
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Bengaluru-based robotics startup Mowito has raised $3 million (about ₹28.6 crore) in a pre-seed funding round as it looks to expand its physical artificial intelligence (AI) platform into the US and accelerate deployments across automotive and electronics manufacturing. The round was led by Version One Ventures, with participation from
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Syntiant, the chipmaker whose low-power processors run artificial intelligence directly on devices rather than in the cloud, has filed for a US initial public offering. The Irvine, California, company submitted its Form S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission on 6 July, and plans to list Class A shares on
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Luffy AI, an Abingdon startup building what it calls neuroplastic AI for the real-time control of physical machines, has raised £8.1m in a Series A round, the company said on Tuesday. The round was led by BGF, which bills itself as the most active equity investor in the UK
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Let's learn about Android via these 319 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Hey there, iOS haters! 1. APK Decompilation: A Beginner's Guide for
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I use a closed-source AI to generate my images, and I can’t unsee the irony! The AI Age of Abundance is a Lie! All the Generative AI companies’ CEOs have been repeating the same cliches: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, writes in his essay The Intelligence Agethat a defining
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Most large organisations now have the AI budgets approved and the transformation roadmaps drawn up. The harder question is what actually reaches production. That gap between strategy and delivery is the organising idea behind TechEx Europe 2026, which runs on 19 and 20 October at the RAI Amsterdam and gathers
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Forterra, a US builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed today that more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs have been deployed in conflict zones in Ukraine for the past nine months, in what the company believes is the largest deployment of autonomous ground vehicles in combat by any US defense tech
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Before Atlas the humanoid robot strode onto the pitch to hand the ball to the referee during Norway and Brazil's World Cup match on Sunday, it hinted at its own soccer skills on the sidelines. At the end of halftime, Atlas emerged from the players' tunnel and
