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Smark and affordable robot manufacturer Ally Robotics launched a new campaign to raise up to $8.5 million in seed capital via equity crowdfunding site WAX. Restaurant automation leader Miso Robotics is currently backing Ally, even going so…

Bambu Lab announced today that its X1 Series is ready for pre-order through Kickstarter on May 31. The X1 Series features AI-powered automated capabilities. A Quad-core SoC and dedicated 2TOPs Neural Processing Unit, matching Bambu Micro…

Kodiak Robotics, Inc. just became the first company to demonstrate a "fallback" system that can autonomously pull a self-driving truck over to the side of the road in the event of a truck or system failure. According to the company, the…

MIT astronomers have locked onto a mysterious system 3,000 light years from Earth—a "black widow binary." The rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar, is circling and slowly consuming a smaller companion star, just like the mate-destroying…

Between March 30th and April 11th, 2022, just over 21% of the US adult population reported symptoms of depression. This number is down from a high of over 30.2% from December 9th through the 21st of 2020. In 2019, depression symptoms were…

The alignment of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is finished, and it's ready to capture images with its four powerful onboard science instruments. Webb will now move to a final series of preparations, known as science instrument…

MIT announced the launch of an MIT AI Hardware Program, joined by five inaugural companies to advance transformative AI technologies for the next decade. The academia and industry collaboration will define and develop translational…

When it comes to autonomous vehicles, the push has been to replace drivers eventually, letting the car completely take over. However, the upshot of a recent presentation is that instead of unhooking the driver, a more realistic prospect is…

An Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launched by NASA on 9 December 2021 is a space-based observatory. Developed with the Italian Space Agency (ASI), it has three identical telescopes, each with an imaging X-ray detector sensitive…

With most 3D printers, objects are built up layer by layer. But what if they didn’t have to be? Dan Congreve, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford and former Rowland Fellow at the Rowland Institute at Harvard…