Tesla has crossed a threshold that is simple to announce and hard to prove. In its third-quarter shareholder letter on October 21, the company said Optimus production had started at its Fremont, California factory on high-volume lines, calling the units “the first production-quality bots that we have manufactured.” Yet the same document’s capacity table lists … Read more
Unitree has released a 61-second advert for a humanoid it calls the H2-X, billed as “Kung Fu Legend: Guardian”, and the clip does what a stunt video is meant to do — it travels. The machine runs through martial-arts forms in a scrapyard, steps between a woman and an armed intruder, smashes a car door, … Read more
Researchers at Binghamton University have shown that a backdoor can be implanted in a language-model-driven robot without touching the robot or the central model. The compromised component is the slim adaptation layer that fits a general-purpose model to a specific environment, and once it is poisoned, a short invented keyword is enough to make the … Read more
A team at the Delft University of Technology has taught a palm-sized drone to find its way through pitch-black rooms the way a rodent does: by touch. Fitted with two artificial whiskers and running every calculation onboard, the aircraft steers along walls in complete darkness using navigation algorithms that occupy just 34 KB of memory. … Read more
NASA’s Perseverance rover has rewritten its own record book again. On 12 October 2026 the six-wheeled explorer completed the longest self-planned drive of a single Martian day in its mission, days after its odometer overtook every other vehicle humanity has operated on another world. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the run beat the rover’s previous … Read more