Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch
The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
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The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
Unitree offers its G1 humanoid robot for $13.5K. | Source: Unitree Shares of Unitree Robotics have fallen nearly 40% from their first-day closing price on Aug. 19 2026, erasing roughly $20 billion in market value from that point and about $35 billion from their peak. The…
Apple is launching a new way to prove that the picture you took isn't manipulated by AI. A new feature, called "Reference Image," will arrive with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup later this month and is supposed to use the device's new camera sensor to "sign every pixel it sees." The…
Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.
The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.
Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.
The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.
Microsoft agreed to a set of safety and privacy principles for AI in schools a week after two major school systems announced a ban on student-facing AI. In a new agreement with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teachers union in the US, and its New…
Users can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items," or "Build a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks," Shipt says.
Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee — AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.
Maxton Hall. | Image: Prime Video Amazon's Prime Video is launching a new AI-powered feature that lines up an actor's mouth with "human-dubbed" audio. The feature is only available with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall for now, but Prime Video plans to expand it…
Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.
Students who use AI to help them study tend to perform worse at school than those who don't, according to data from a global OECD educational report. The situation is more complex than it sounds though, with certain types of AI use giving learners a slight boost, especially…
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Editor’s note: Andreas Friedrich, managing director technology and strategy, Allegro MicroSystems, will be speaking at RoboBusiness, which will be on Oct. 20 and 21 in Santa Clara, Calif. He will dissect the critical technological advancements that are making next-generation…
Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.
ViAct offers viBOT, an autonomous robotic monitor for construction. | Source: viAct Construction is entering a new era of automation. Autonomous earthmoving equipment is beginning to reshape excavation. Robotic layout systems are improving precision. Drones are inspecting…
Inbolt’s technology lets robots grasp parts however they can, then uses in-hand localization to adjust trajectory mid-move. | Source: Inbolt Physical AI’s consensus says progress is gated by data. More of it, better curated, better simulated. That’s true in the lab. In the…
Agility Robotics said it has deployed its Digit humanoid at 9 customer sites as it gears up to go public via a proposed SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp. XI. Now we’re getting a first look at Agility’s financials thanks to a new S-4 filing with the SEC. According to the…
You sit down and put your arm in the cradle. You press a button. The machine takes it from there. A near-infrared light sweeps your inner elbow, hunting for a vein. A puff of alcohol hits your skin. An ultrasound probe glides across your arm, mapping how deep the vessel runs and…
UMI gripper equipped with uSkin sensors and real-time tactile data visualization. Source: XELA Robotics Robotic gripping rarely fails because of a lack of mechanical strength. It fails because the system does not truly know what the fingers are doing at the moment of contact.…
eCential says its open, modular platform allows it to collaborate with technology companies and implant manufacturers. | Source: eCential Robotics Enovis Corp., a medical technology company, this week said it entered into a binding offer to acquire eCential Robotics for €155…
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23…
On a good day, the rock quarry in central Texas is about 370,000 kilometers (230,000 miles) from the moon. But last February, when Rishi Jangale watched his 1.8-meter-wide, 150-kilogram inflatable robot roll effortlessly over rocks, gravel, and wet clay, his imagination turned…
The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.
Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those that executed proof-of-concept code. At…
Earlier this year, Meta created a “plan” to reduce some of its teams by as much as 60 percent to make the company “AI native,” Reuters reported today, citing two people familiar with Meta’s internal affairs. Reuters’ report highlights the challenges organizations face when…
When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began creating her digital footprint long before she could stand on her…
It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the Gates Ventures conference room overlooks the Carillon Point…
This article is brought to you by Ollobot. From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to them. Most early companion robots, however, were still…