Innovation
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Exclusive: Fi is bringing Starlink satellite technology to dog collars
Jonathan Bensamoun has a 100-pound German Shepherd named Thor—and a story every dog owner knows. A few years ago, while in the Hamptons, his perfectly-trained shepherd spotted a family of deer. “He looks at me, looks at the deer,” Bensamoun recalled. “And he just bolted.” For several minutes, Bensamoun was powerless. Luckily Thor returned on…
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Meet the soccer-playing humanoid robot that just delivered the game ball at the Brazil v. Norway FIFA World Cup match
Before Brazil and Norway retook the pitch at New York/New Jersey Stadium for their Round of 16 match on Saturday, something happened at halftime that had never occurred in FIFA World Cup history. A five-foot humanoid robot walked pitchside, performed goal celebrations in the style of Harry Kane, Erling Haaland, Matheus Cunha, and Son Heung-min,…
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NASA plans daring robotic rescue mission to prevent an aging space telescope from falling back to Earth, and the legendary Hubble could be next
NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver. NASA hired startup Katalyst Space Technologies to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit where it can…
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Over 40,000 American bridges have structurally deficient ratings. Why aren’t we using quantum sensors on them?
Every bridge has parts that drivers never see: steel buried in concrete, welds tucked under girders, and soil packed around foundations below the waterline. A bridge can look fine from the road while rust spreads around steel hidden inside concrete. A small fatigue crack can lengthen. A flood can wash soil away from a pier.…
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Inside Europe’s most innovative companies
Europe spends less of its GDP on research and development than the U.S., Japan, or China. Its R&D intensity has held at roughly 2.1% for years, compared with 3.45% in the U.S. and Japan and 2.6% in China. Yet the continent continues to punch above its weight, generating world-class ideas and breakthroughs: the European Patent…
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How Elon Musk rewrote SpaceX’s story—and turned it into the greatest IPO debut in history
It’s hard to believe that only a few months ago, SpaceX was primarily an enterprise that manufactured rockets, managed launches, and deployed a satellite constellation for servicing mobile phone and broadband purveyors. But in February, Elon Musk folded xAI, another arm of his empire, into SpaceX, and his entire narrative about the prime force for…
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While investors await the SpaceX IPO, these space stocks are already public, building an economy in Earth orbit—and beyond
Wall Street is salivating for SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO this week, but demand is so high that retail investors may not be able to buy shares at the offering price and will likely have to pay a steep premium once they trading begins. While SpaceX is the clear industry leader, there are already a number of…
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Marc Lore’s robots make 500 burrito bowls an hour. A human can make 45
An “infinite bowl-making machine” can make 500 salads, Tex-Mex, and poke bowls with the exact ingredients you want down to the personalized macros you’re tracking in one hour. A human worker can’t compare, according to entrepreneur Marc Lore. “I don’t know exactly how many a single person can do, but it’s not going to be…
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China builds 85% of the world’s humanoids robots for cheap at scale, but finding buyers is tricky
Chinese-made humanoid robots are making waves with their ability to do backflips, direct traffic, and even make coffee as the companies developing them seek ways to expand and dominate the market. Robot makers in China say they have thousands of orders from both the government and private businesses for humanoids that can do such things…
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Chinese humanoid robots dominate the market with thousands shipped a year. But most are still performative rather than functional
Chinese-made humanoid robots are making waves with their ability to do backflips, direct traffic, and even make coffee as the companies developing them seek ways to expand and dominate the market. Robot makers in China say they have thousands of orders from both the government and private businesses for humanoids that can do such things as…