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- 01 of 10NEWS
UK humanoid maker raises $152m with Bosch and Schaeffler backing wheels over legs
London startup Humanoid closed a $152m round at a $1.35bn valuation, with car parts giants Bosch and Schaeffler as investors and first customers. Its robots roll on wheels rather than walk, and will start work in European factories.
OUR TAKETurns out the fastest way to a humanoid future is skipping the human legs.
Read more → - 02 of 10NEWS
Chinese farm robot with 108 arms tops cotton plants in Xinjiang
A Xinjiang cotton grower has put a 108-arm robot to work snipping the tops off cotton plants, a fiddly job that boosts yield. It replaces about forty seasonal workers per machine and runs day and night.
OUR TAKEIf we ever meet a hundred-armed robot in a field, we run.
Read more → - 03 of 10NEWS
Xiaomi puts humanoid robots on its SU7 electric car line
Xiaomi has moved its own humanoid robots from screwing bolts to handling awkward parts on the SU7 car line in Beijing after six months of factory training. The company says this proves robots can flex between jobs.
OUR TAKEThe robots build the car that drives itself; we just pay for it.
Read more → - 04 of 10TOOLS
Meshy raises $400m to turn typed prompts into printable 3D models
Meshy, an AI 3D creation tool founded by former MIT researcher Ethan Hu, raised nearly $400m at a $1.5bn valuation. Hobbyists, game makers and 3D printer owners use it to skip modelling software entirely.
OUR TAKESculpting is now typing, which is either liberating or slightly sad.
Read more → - 05 of 10NEWS
Indian coding startup Emergent raises $130m at $1.5bn valuation
Bengaluru based Emergent, a tool that lets non-developers describe an app and get working code back, raised $130m in six months at a $1.5bn valuation. It joins a small club of Indian AI startups now worth over a billion.
OUR TAKEThe person who once wrote your app is now the person describing it.
Read more → - 06 of 10NEWS
Genesis AI in talks to raise $500m for one brain that runs many robots
Genesis AI is raising about $500m at a $3bn value to build a single software brain that any robot maker can drop into their hardware. The idea is to skip years of custom coding for each model.
OUR TAKEOne brain, many bodies: what could possibly go wrong.
Read more → - 07 of 10NEWS
Hitachi hands entire software projects to AI agents in productivity push
Japanese group Hitachi says it will use AI agents to plan, code and test whole software projects for clients, aiming for a 30 percent productivity lift. Its own engineers will supervise rather than write most of the work.
OUR TAKESalarymen supervising software agents is the least Japanese future we imagined.
Read more → - 08 of 10NEWS
Israeli hospital uses AI to flag life-threatening ER cases in seconds
Haifa's Rambam Hospital has rolled out software that reads a patient's arrival notes and vital signs and pushes the sickest to the front of the queue. Early results show fewer missed heart attacks and strokes in the emergency room.
OUR TAKEThe best triage nurse we may ever meet does not need coffee.
Read more → - 09 of 10NEWS
US regulators clear ECG software that spots hidden heart failure
EchoNext, software that reads a standard heart tracing and flags early heart failure long before symptoms appear, has been cleared by the FDA. GPs will be able to use it during routine check-ups from later this year.
OUR TAKEOur next boring check-up may quietly save our life.
Read more → - 10 of 10NEWS
EU AI rulebook fully switches on next week with fines up to 7 percent
The EU AI Act becomes fully enforceable on 2 August, letting Brussels fine firms up to 7 percent of worldwide sales for banned or high-risk uses. Anyone selling AI in Europe, from CV screeners to chatbots, is on the hook.
OUR TAKEThe Brussels effect meets your dodgy hiring bot.
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