New York lawmakers propose a three-year pause on new data centers
New Yorker state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would impose a moratorium of at least three years on permits tied to the construction and…
Category: Ai/Robotics
North American robot orders rise by 6.6% in 2025, reports A3
Non-automotive orders surpassed automotive robot orders in 2025, says A3. Source: Adobe Stock After a drop in 2024, North American robot orders rose in 2025,…
KinetIQ framework from Humanoid orchestrates robot fleets
KinetIQ is a single AI model that can control different morphologies and end-effector designs. | Source: Humanoid Humanoid, a developer of humanoid robots and mobile…
Benchmark raises $225M in special funds to double down on Cerebras
This week, AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems announced that it raised $1 billion in fresh capital at a valuation of $23 billion — a nearly threefold…
From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads
Following last year’s trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements took it a step further by leveraging AI both…
It just got easier for Claude to check in on your WordPress site
On Thursday, WordPress launched a new Claude connector, enabling site owners to share back-end data with Anthropic’s chatbot system. Users can control what specific data…
Robot development, from actuators to AI
In Episode 230 of The Robot Report Podcast, hosts Mike Oitzman and Eugene Demaitre recap the major robotics news of the week and speak with…
How ADR and Intel went underground with edge AI
The Explora robot can autonomously conduct mining inspections and monitoring activities. | Source: ADR As mining operations go deeper underground, the environment becomes increasingly dangerous…
Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all
Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark measuring AI agents’ capabilities on professional tasks like law and corporate analysis. At the time, the scores…
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a pricey but pretty e-ink color tablet with AI features
If you primarily want a tablet device to markup, highlight, and annotate your e-books and documents, and perhaps sometimes scribble some notes of your own,…