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Toyota to deploy 400,000 robots as it modernizes factories worldwide. Image: Toyota Toyota could deploy 400,000 robots in a $6.4 billion modernization push designed to preserve worker expertise and improve global factory operations. Sep 21, 2026 Toyota could eventually deploy about 400,000 robots across its manufacturing
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Figure tests Helix 2.5 humanoid robot across 30 unseen homes. Image: Figure Figure says Helix 2.5 completed household tasks across 30 unseen homes with a 56% success rate, showing progress but also a large reliability gap. Sep 21, 2026 Figure says its humanoid robot can now carry household
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We're gearing up for the second wave of major marathons this year: runners will be heading for the start line in Berlin at the end of the week (27 September), with the Chicago marathon following on 11 October and New York rounding out the season on 2 November.
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India has strengthened its research ecosystem, patent activity and engineering talent, but converting that capability into commercially successful deep-tech products remains a challenge. Dr. Aloknath De, founder and CEO of TechCrafter.cps, argues that the gap is particularly visible between proof-of-concept and deployment, where technologies must be engineered, validated, funded
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India’s professional audiovisual market is moving beyond standalone projectors, displays and video conferencing systems as enterprises increasingly look for connected, software-managed and AI-enabled environments. That shift was visible across the show floor at InfoComm India 2026, where vendors positioned meeting rooms, displays and AV infrastructure as part of broader
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Gartner says 60% of organizations that ignore culture in data governance may fail to govern AI by 2027, citing resistance, weak engagement and low data maturity Organizations that neglect the cultural side of data and analytics governance may struggle to govern artificial intelligence successfully, according to Gartner. The research firm
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Indulge Concierge, a members-only lifestyle management company for high-net-worth individuals (HNIs), has raised $1 million in a Pre-Series A funding round as it looks to expand into the US, UAE, Malaysia and South Africa while increasing its investment in artificial intelligence (AI). The round saw participation from both existing and
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* BAN says 87% of data center hardware isn't actually accounted for in most figures * Each 1GW of capacity equals 70,000 tonnes of hardware * AI hardware needs more frequent replacing A new Basel Action Network (BAN) report has claimed the ongoing AI boom could create a new stream
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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What's your game called and what's it about? Jonathan:Dressmaker is a game about making dresses, where almost every part of the creative process is under your control: from design, choosing fabrics for each panel, sewing it together and finishing it off with trims, buttons, bows
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Disney Plus recently updated its subscriber agreement in Europe, and the change is causing confusion for customers worldwide, including in the US. Reports began circulating that the streaming service will allow ads to be inserted into content across all of its plans, leading some subscribers to believe that changes are
