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* Alibaba's Tongyi Lab unveils the Qwen Robot Suite * Its first embodied-AI models are split into navigation (RobotNav), a video "world model" (RobotWorld), and manipulation (RobotManip) * The move comes after Nvidia recently unveiled and published its own Cosmos 3 offerings As much of its AI competition continues
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Show more (12 items) Amazon Prime Day is running from June 23 through June 26 this year. It's a great time to score some great deals on Samsung products. Discounts have appeared across the platform with huge price cuts on some of the company's most popular
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Antonio G. Di Benedetto is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. We at The Verge love a good gadget or tchotchke, especially when it’s not too expensive. But
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Sheena Vasani writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge. If you’re in the market for a robot vacuum, Amazon Prime Day has brought a ton of discounts that we’re tracking, but the Eufy Omni C28
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TL;DR Berlin drone startup Stark Defence raised €500M led by Sequoia and Founders Fund, pushing its valuation past €3.5 billion just two years after founding. Stark Defence, the Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, has raised €500 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Peter
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Show more (14 items) Amazon Prime Day is running from June 23 through June 26 this year, but you don't have to wait to score a great deal on a new phone. Amazon has already begun rolling out early discounts on some of the year's most
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For most of Luminvera’s short life, the pitch came with an AR wearable. The company, incorporated in March 2026 and run out of Silicon Valley, started as a bet that the right device could pull an industrial engineer out of what its founder, Lu Yang, likes to call the
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In a former shop on Ginnekenstraat, a pedestrian street in the Dutch city of Breda, you can answer a short questionnaire about yourself and walk out less than an hour later holding a perfume that did not exist when you arrived. The questions are not the ones a sales assistant
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TL;DR HaloBraid raised $7M from Seven Seven Six to build a robotic braiding assistant for salons, launching later this year. HaloBraid, a robotics startup that builds an automated braiding assistant for hair salons, has raised seven million dollars in a seed round led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s
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When a robot, drone, or other autonomous system needs a clear understanding of its surroundings, developers often choose to equip it with a depth camera. These sensors make it possible to measure the distance to nearby objects and build a three-dimensional map of the environment, helping machines navigate, avoid obstacles,
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All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Learn more. Temperatures may be soaring, but there’s an unseasonable chill on screens right now—at least when it comes to some
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While there are several thousand products discounted for Prime Day 2026, most of them aren’t what we’d call winners. We’ve already gathered the best Prime Day deals in our main roundup, but we’re dedicating this page to discounts on Verge-favorite items to help you find useful
