1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (939+ words) Why can a robot do a backflip but struggle to fold a shirt? The answer is surprisingly complicated. A humanoid robot can run, jump, dance, and even perform a backflip, yet ask it to fold a shirt, pick up a…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (530+ words) The debate over agentic mathematics has reached beyond mathematical proofs. A group of the world’s most decorated mathematicians is warning that the race to make AI solve difficult mathematics could damage the field it aims to advance. Twenty-five Fields Medalists…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (457+ words) Anthropic says it disrupted five cases in which researchers used Claude in ways that could have supported biological weapons development. The company said it could not establish whether the researchers intended to cause harm. It still blocked the activity because…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (229+ words) The new technology is being leveraged to overcome obstacles and facilitate the safe passage of follow-on forces. “A breaching mission can be executed most effectively with truly autonomous vehicles,” said Byron Boots, co-founder and chief executive officer of Overland AI....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (326+ words) Canadian startup Sami Robotics is taking its multi-arm harvesting platform, SAMI, from broccoli to romaine lettuce, a crop still cut almost entirely by hand. 18 robotic arms, moving at once, cutting romaine lettuce with nobody in the field. This is SAMI,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (463+ words) Interesting Engineering...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (507+ words) What if a 3D-printed object could reshape itself when its environment changed? Imagine printing an object that does not remain exactly as it came out of the printer. Expose it to heat, water, light, or another trigger, and it could…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (907+ words) Extreme heat does more than make a machine uncomfortable. It can soften metals, damage electronic circuits, break down lubricants, and cause vital components to crack. The challenge is growing as data centers become more powerful and aircraft engines run hotter....

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (273+ words) California startup Beagle Technology is skipping the ground-up farm robot and bolting AI onto the tractors growers already own. A camera bolted to a tractor is now deciding where to cut a grapevine, and it is making that call about…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (314+ words) IBM has connected and cooled two modular cryogenic systems into a single environment for the first time, at its lab in Yorktown Heights, New York. The box-shaped modules stand more than 8 feet tall and 8 feet wide combined, reach 4 Kelvin in…...