Google- and Microsoft-backed Terradot acquires carbon-removal competitor

The acquisition could mark the beginning of consolidation in the carbon-removal market since removal costs remain higher than ...

This Video of Hilariously Slow Robots Putting Olive Oil in a Bag Is Actually Pretty Impressive

Robots that can actually do things are not slick yet, and it's a relief when robotics companies don't hide from that.
Interesting Engineering

Nuclear waste to be disposed deep underground using US firm’s borehole technology

Deep Isolation's nuclear waste disposal technology is being designed to leverage directional drilling to isolate spent ...
IEEE

EEG Artifact Removal At the Edge Using AI Hardware

Abstract: Wearable electroencephalography (EEG) devices enable noninvasive brain monitoring for conditions, such as epilepsy, but are often affected by artifacts. While many artificial intelligence ...
Wired

Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese

The 4-foot-tall humanoid robot that’s in front of me seems, quite honestly, a bit drunk. It leaps from one leg to the other, waving its arms. After 30 seconds or so it abruptly stops, then strides ...
CNN

Private guns, public oil: Trump’s Venezuela plans start taking shape

The Trump administration is preparing to use private military contractors to protect oil and energy assets in Venezuela rather than deploying US troops, according to two sources familiar with the ...
IEEE

Using LLM for Learning Objects Metadata Extraction on Educational Robotics Content

Abstract: RepositORE is a collaborative web platform for registering learning objects and educational robotics activities. Manually adding new objects - with their 32 metadata fields each - quickly ...