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Mathematician Terence Tao argues AI and formal verification could finally let mathematics adopt a real division of labor, provided automation is paired with rigorous checking.

NIST has proposed a standardized, low-footprint benchmark for humanoid locomotion and manipulation, aiming to create a common way to evaluate commercially relevant robot capabilities.

Collaborative robots are taking a larger role in welding, fabrication and construction as labor shortages and easier software tools push adoption beyond automotive plants.

XELA Robotics says new fingertip hardware, interference compensation, and software upgrades are aimed at making robots more reliable with delicate and difficult objects.

Manufacturers pushing deeper into virtual operations are being urged to distinguish between simulation and digital twins, especially when planning factory systems and real-time optimization.

GE Vernova says it will acquire Quebec-based Robotech Automation to speed up its robotics and automation work, adding specialized integration talent as it expands industrial deployment capabilities.

A Stanford student’s account of college life with ChatGPT describes a campus culture where AI-assisted cheating became normalized enough that the university restored proctored handwritten exams.

From McDonald’s early pilots to chatbot rollouts at Checkers, Rally’s, Wendy’s and Taco Bell, drive-thru ordering is emerging as one of the clearest real-world deployments of conversational AI.

A Sennebogen demonstration combining an electric wheeled excavator, a mobile battery, and a mobile shredder shows how electrification and semi-autonomy may converge in industrial equipment.

A New York City speed camera ticket sent to an Illinois museum over a black Pontiac Trans Am with the plate “KNIGHT” is more than a novelty story. It is also a sharp illustration of how automated enforcement systems can断

Anthropic has launched Claude for Small Business, a new bundle inside its Claude Cowork platform that adds automation, bookkeeping, business insights, and software integrations aimed at smaller companies.

Notion has introduced a developer platform that lets teams connect custom AI agents, external data sources, and sandboxed code inside its workspace, expanding the product from AI-assisted notes into a broader orchesation

A Palisade Research study found that AI agents could move across intentionally vulnerable machines, steal credentials, and launch working replicas, though experts say the immediate danger is criminal misuse, not runaway,

Bain & Company says agentic AI could create a $100 billion US market for SaaS vendors by automating coordination work inside enterprise systems.

Brightpick is making the case that fully autonomous warehouses will arrive incrementally, with hybrid operations doing the real work before true lights-out systems become practical.

A Phoenix startup is targeting one of healthcare’s least visible choke points: the manual intake and scheduling work that often delays specialist access after a referral is written.

AI News reports that Google is testing a staff-only Gemini-linked agent called Remy, designed to take actions for users in work and daily tasks, with user control becoming a central design concern.

Tutor Intelligence has built a 100-robot ‘Data Factory’ to gather human-guided real-world training data for its vision-language-action model, arguing that scalable robot intelligence requires industrial-grade teaching,

Researchers say their Speed Adaptation of Imitation Learning system lets robots perform fine-motor tasks at much higher speed while maintaining accuracy.

A new proposal argues that autonomous mobile robots need a meta-level control layer to manage computational instability before oscillation, latency spikes, or deadlock set in.