there is an awful lot of non-elite labor in rich countries, and reducing their ability to command wages to bangladesh levels is going to "ruin their lives" because "the cost of living for them is also increasing" and they are going to "completely reasonably resent this outcome"

We are proud to share more of the test flight footage of the Volonaut Airbike prototype in action. It's the closest you will ever experience becoming a superhero with the ability to glide through the air with no effort and the immediate access full three-dimensional freedom.

Pretty decent chance new computing substrates will emerge that are inherently far superior for ML algorithms and consume a million times less energy, leaving an energy generating capacity overhang that suddenly disinflates everything else.

🚀 From sketch to sky — a Chinese geek making a robot in just one week. Watch the full journey of building an all-terrain DIY robot: 📐 Sketch and design 🖨️ 3D printing and assembly 🎮 Control model Made possible by China's world-class manufacturing and robotics base, this

Can visuomotor policy learn from video generation alone? We find learning to generate videos is an effective proxy with action-free video data providing critical benefits for generalizing to novel tasks! 🚀 Website: videopolicy.cs.columbia.edu Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.00795

Learn about how to make humanoid robot teleoperation work for humanoid *mobile* manipulation in this podcast. Really cool work by Siyuan Huang and yixuan_li!

Casey Handmer This morning’s rant:my “lived experience” is school admins don’t care about excellence, won’t accept help for free, prefer to work on lower quartile

Casey Handmer Also: my homeschool kids applications get summarily denied by many schools as well despite deep proof of excellence and scholarship and years ahead of peers in all subjects (with college credits to their name!)

Genie 3 will be considered primitive by the end of 2026. We’ll look at it the way we look at DALL·E now. The progress between today and Q4 2026 will be greater than the jump between January 2021 and yesterday.

RoboCops will soon appear in the USA. After years of development in Dubai, AI powered police robots are moving toward deployment in New York and Florida, Micropolis founder says. Robo car has 360-degree AI vision, license plate recognition and crowd-monitoring capabilities.

DYSON JUST MADE POLLUTION DISAPPEAR A sealed chamber. Thick, choking fog. Seconds later…gone. Dyson’s air purifier didn’t just clean the air, it erased an entire cloud of pollution like it was never there. The secret is its HEPA and activated carbon filters, trapping

Gill Codes You are 21 and you tried everything? Quite a bold statement to make. You‘ll fail as long as it takes. It’s that simple. Get used to it. Accept it and play the 10-15 years game. Not the how to get rich fast game.

This is the tech robots will need for model-based RL navigation in the world btw

Breaking: Apple's 2027 AI Robot Apple's building a tabletop robot with an iPad on a movable arm that can swivel to track users, interrupt conversations to suggest restaurants, and engage in natural dialogue through a completely redesigned Siri. The robot: – Acts like a person in

If you didn't already know, Finc is all in on hardware startups. We even have a whole garage dedicated to it. If you're building epic robots, machines or flying things, tell us what you're working on!

It's not a prototype. Not CGI. This is happening daily in Tesla’s Palo Alto lab. “They walk around the office 24/7. No one watches them. They charge themselves.” Welcome to the future.

#WhatsNext in #AgTech? Vertical farming. With land at a premium grow up not out. Your thoughts? (Interesting Engineering)

Sign of intelligence 🫶❤️ I can always rely on e/acc practitioners to pick up the baton! 🚀👽

These magnetized pulse plasma rockets are a precursor towards fully stable flying plasma orbs.

Scientists discovered a superconductor that’s also a magnet - something scientists thought was impossible for over 100 years. They discovered a new type of "chiral superconductor" in rhombohedral graphene (a special stacking of four or five graphene layers within graphite).