Robots
JAXA’s eight-ounce SORA-Q sphere unfolded into a wheeled rover, drove itself across the lunar surface and beamed back images – the first real demonstration that cheap robot swarms, not lone giant rovers, could open up the Moon.
SpaceX’s market debut jumped 19% on day one, lifting Elon Musk’s fortune past $1 trillion and making him the world’s first trillionaire, according to the Bloomberg index.
An ETH Zurich team has built millions of stem-cell-infused injectable nanorobots that helped paralysed mice regain movement within weeks, hinting at a faster future route to repairing spinal injuries.
China Post has begun deploying RobotEra humanoid robots to sort parcels at a major Guangzhou mail hub, the latest sign of Beijing’s aggressive push to automate industrial work.
Researchers in Japan have built a WiFi receiver that survives 500 kilograys of radiation – thousands of times what space electronics endure – paving the way for untethered robots to decommission reactors like Fukushima without trailing tangled cables.
Carbon Robotics’ new Large Plant Model, trained on 150 million images from its laser-weeding fleet, recognises plant species instantly — letting farmers target brand-new weeds in real time without any retraining.
Honor’s Lightning robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes 26 seconds in Beijing, beating the human world record by over six minutes — the latest milestone in China’s accelerating humanoid robotics push.
A Korean research team has turned industrial sulfur waste into recyclable, self-moving soft robots using a new 4D printing method, pointing to a closed-loop future for advanced materials.
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