AI is consuming staggering amounts of energy—already over 10% of U.S. electricity—and the demand is only accelerating. Now, researchers have unveiled a radically more efficient approach that could slash AI energy use by up to 100× while actually improving accuracy. By combining neural networks with human-like symbolic reasoning, their system helps robots think more logically instead of relying on brute-force trial and error.
Modern food systems may look stable on the surface, but they are increasingly dependent on digital systems that can quietly become a major point of failure. Today, food must be “recognized” by databases and automated platforms to be transported, sold, or even released, meaning that if systems go down, food can effectively become unusable—even when it’s physically available.
Agile Robots, a leading provider of AI-powered robotic solutions, has successfully acquired assets of thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering in Europe and North America. Through the acquisition, the Munich-based company is strengthening its position in next-generation automation solutions and is tapping into new growth markets and close partnerships with leading OEMs. The acquisition had initially been announced […]
A guy spent $22,000 on a steel mold. Parts came back warped. The wall thickness was wrong. The factory said it was his design. He said it was their fault. Six months later, still no product. That story is not rare. It happens constantly to founders and engineers who skip the basics of injection molding. […]
FII Priority Miami concluded its three-day summit with a series of discussions on global investment trends, economic volatility, and emerging growth sectors, alongside appearances by former US President Donald J. Trump and football legend Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima. FII stands for Future Investment Initiative. It is a global nonprofit focused on “Impact on Humanity”, […]
EV adoption is accelerating across logistics, public transport, and energy retail. Charging networks, fleet management systems, energy platforms, and partner APIs all run in parallel but rarely communicate. Dispatchers manually coordinate sessions that should trigger automatically. Energy managers export spreadsheets that a platform should process in real time. At scale, these gaps become a ceiling […]
The humanoid robotics industry may be approaching its first real commercial inflection point – and the signal is not a new product launch or funding round, but a sharp and accelerating decline in prices. Recent disclosures from Unitree Robotics suggest the average price of its humanoid robots fell from approximately $85,000 in 2023 to about […]
Unitree Robotics, which is believed to be the world’s largest humanoid robot maker, has taken a significant step toward going public, filing for an initial public offering on Shanghai’s STAR Market that could raise up to 4.2 billion yuan ($610 million). The Hangzhou-based company’s IPO application was formally accepted by the Shanghai Stock Exchange on […]
Scientists in Japan say they have developed a new approach – dubbed ‘HEAPGrasp’ – that improves robots’ grasping success rate for transparent and shiny objects, beyond reducing handling time, using only RGB camera The fields of manufacturing, logistics, and even restaurants are increasingly moving toward automation, with robots being employed for a wide range of […]
There’s a quiet shift happening in eCommerce. For a long time, brands were obsessed with getting new customers – bigger ad budgets, wider reach, more traffic. But lately, the smarter ones are asking a different question: How do we keep the customers we already have? Because the truth is, growth doesn’t really come from constant […]
Robots make work faster, cleaner, and more consistent. They also change how risk shows up on the floor. The danger is not only the moving arm, but also the in-between moments, when a cell is paused, a jam is cleared, or a quick adjustment turns into hands inside the fence. Operators sit closest to these […]
Festo has introduced the HPSX Universal Adaptive Gripper, a pneumatic soft gripper engineered to improve speed, hygiene and flexibility in demanding food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics applications. Combining robust design, food-safe materials and adaptive silicone fingers, the HPSX directly addresses long-standing automation challenges where rapid, precise and gentle product handling is essential. Peter Potters, product manager […]
Comau and Reis Robotics partner to deliver advanced automation systems across key industrial sectors
Comau and Reis Robotics have signed a cooperation agreement aimed at jointly developing and delivering advanced automation products and solutions for multiple industrial sectors through a coordinated technical and commercial approach. The agreement signed today by Comau and Reis Robotics, respectively Italian and German companies, testifies to the strength of the European technology framework in […]
Neura Mobile Robots has presented an application for mobile manipulation in intralogistics for the first time at LogiMAT. Under its ek Robotics brand, Neura demonstrated how mobile transport robotics and cognitive robotics can be combined into a seamless system, enabling a new level of automation. At the heart of the application is the combination of […]
Automation in law offices has shifted from a back-office convenience to a core part of how modern firms operate. What was once a profession defined by paper files and manual processes is now increasingly structured around systems – intake pipelines, workflow automation, and data tracking that bring speed and consistency to everyday operations. But the […]
Money usually goes away sooner than one anticipates. Some minor things, a lost subscription, and all of a sudden, the bank account shows that the balance is lower than intended. Several families go through this situation despite a stable income. Here, a personal budget application will come in handy. It may seem that it is […]
A new tomato-picking robot is learning to think before it acts. Instead of simply identifying ripe fruit, it predicts how easy each tomato will be to harvest and adjusts its approach accordingly. This smarter strategy boosted success rates to 81%, with the robot even switching angles when needed. The breakthrough could pave the way for farms where robots and humans work side by side.
Choosing the right method for multimodal AI—systems that combine text, images, and more—has long been trial and error. Emory physicists created a unifying mathematical framework that shows many AI techniques rely on the same core idea: compress data while preserving what’s most predictive. Their “control knob” approach helps researchers design better algorithms, use less data, and avoid wasted computing power. The team believes it could pave the way for more accurate, efficient, and environmentally friendly AI.
Dinosaur footprints have always been mysterious, but a new AI app is cracking their secrets. DinoTracker analyzes photos of fossil tracks and predicts which dinosaur made them, with accuracy rivaling human experts. Along the way, it uncovered footprints that look strikingly bird-like—dating back more than 200 million years. That discovery could push the origin of birds much deeper into prehistory.
AI may learn better when it’s allowed to talk to itself. Researchers showed that internal “mumbling,” combined with short-term memory, helps AI adapt to new tasks, switch goals, and handle complex challenges more easily. This approach boosts learning efficiency while using far less training data. It could pave the way for more flexible, human-like AI systems.