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China’s key minerals exports to Japan stay at low levels in May

Japan Times Technology·Jun 20, 2026

Exports of some key types of tungsten, as well as rare-earths dysprosium and terbium, stayed at zero in May, according to Chinese customs d…

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‘Tagusari Bros.’ searches for the meaning of justice

Japan Times Technology·Jun 19, 2026

Themes of vengeance and closure are nothing new in the world of crime dramas, but few tackle them with the emotional nuance of TBS' "Tagusa…

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Iran floats insurance fees and asserts control over Hormuz

South China Morning Post Tech·Jun 19, 2026

Iran sought to assert control over Strait of Hormuz by saying that ships need its permission and mandatory insurance to cross, even as the…

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AURA Foresight Reaches Global XPRIZE Wildfire Finals in Alaska

Robohub·Jun 19, 2026

One of only four teams remaining from more than 130 competitors worldwide, our team AURA Foresight is developing autonomous technology to s…

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Humanoid

Video Friday: Do Robots Even Need Legs?

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 19, 2026

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…

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U.S. robotics industry saw double-digit growth in 2025, says IFR

The Robot Report·Jun 19, 2026

The IFR said robust growth in the food industry and other non-manufacturing sectors drove this recovery in the U.S. robotics industry. The…

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Elmo releases new motion controller and servo drives for industrial applications

The Robot Report·Jun 19, 2026

Elmo said its latest products set new benchmarks for power density, expand its existing Platinum line, and introduce the Titanium line. The…

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Startup

The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off

MIT Technology Review·Jun 19, 2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of t…

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Research

Robot Talk Episode 161 – Collaborative haptic systems, with Allison Okamura

Robohub·Jun 19, 2026

Claire chatted to Allison Okamura from Stanford University about developing advanced robotic systems for haptic (touch) interaction. Alliso…

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Startup

A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs

MIT Technology Review·Jun 19, 2026

Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical b…

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Manipulation

What Amazon’s Astro Taught Me About Giving Robots a Soul

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 19, 2026

In 2018, Amazon brought me in as the lead UX Sound Designer for Astro, its first consumer home robot. Astro used cameras and other sensors…

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Research

Brain-computer interface trials are taking off

MIT Technology Review·Jun 19, 2026

This week, I covered the story of Casey Harrell—a man with ALS who is “the first power user” of a brain implant, according to the researche…

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General

The inevitable weakness of metrics

MIT Technology Review·Jun 19, 2026

There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more it can obscure or corrupt. It took me well over a decade of trac…

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General

Robots pour cocktails and run marathons, but still can’t multitask

Japan Times Technology·Jun 19, 2026

Many are either run by a human with a remote control or stuck doing one narrow task.

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US, Iran sign peace deal; China’s C919 jets grounded for safety checks: SCMP’s 7 highlights

South China Morning Post Tech·Jun 19, 2026

We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with…

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RealSense unveils AI-native D585 Pro depth camera for robots

The Robot Report·Jun 18, 2026

The D585 Pro is powered by a proprietary Gen 5 system-on-chip and delivers more than 2x better depth quality than the previous generation o…

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Adobe’s redesigned AI studio remembers what your creations look like

The Verge AI·Jun 18, 2026

{"#text":"Adobe is introducing some new capabilities for its Firefly AI assistant, alongside a \"reimagined\" AI studio that lets you edit…

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Medical

Kinova launches KIMA medical robotic arm

The Robot Report·Jun 18, 2026

Instead of adapting the robot from industrial technology, Kinova said it designed KIMA from the ground up for clinical use. The post Kinova…

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Medical

Microbot Medical to expand veteran access to robotic surgery with LIBERTY

The Robot Report·Jun 18, 2026

Lovell Government Services will become Microbot's service-disabled veteran-owned small business vendor to supply federal programs. The post…

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Humanoid

Richtech Robotics launches livestream for ADAM AI-powered humanoid

The Robot Report·Jun 18, 2026

Online users will be able to engage with service robot ADAM, which uses NVIDIA technology, says Richtech Robotics. The post Richtech Roboti…

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General

The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya’s case for going solar

MIT Technology Review·Jun 18, 2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of t…

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Geoengineering still faces major practical challenges

MIT Technology Review·Jun 18, 2026

Solar geoengineering is often portrayed as a sort of emergency brake. Something along the lines of Pull in case of climate emergency to sca…

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General

The search for dark matter has been blown wide open

MIT Technology Review·Jun 18, 2026

Underneath an Apennine massif, below the Jinping Mountains of Sichuan, and at the bottom of a South Dakota mine, there is a cosmic hunt afo…

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Humanoid

Evaluating humanoids for surface finishing applications

The Robot Report·Jun 17, 2026

Most manufacturing applications aim to reduce cycle time to improve throughput. Using general-purpose industrial robots that transcend huma…

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