Spicy food can reduce extreme physical pain – Researchers found that holding a chili-infused gelatin cube in the mouth reduced how violently people reacted to high-intensity laser heat applied to their hands, though it did not relieve the feeling of minor heat pain.

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Food and drink manufacturers looking to invest in automation could soon find it easier to deploy industrial robots following the launch of a Siemens modular robotics platform designed specifically to simplify integration, operation and maintenance. Unveiled during Siemens’ Transform 2026 event in Manchester, the open robotics platform has been developed in collaboration with Wymbs Engineering…

The Isaac GR00T platform helps robotics developers scale humanoid data collection and simulation-based training to develop, validate, and deploy policies on real robots. | Source: NVIDIA NVIDIA and Hugging Face are collaborating to bring the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T 1.7 and the NVIDIA Isaac Teleop framework to LeRobot, Hugging Face’s open-source robotics library. The companies said…

A humanoid robot is being introduced as part of a pilot program, along with an AI teaching assistant, at Salamanca high school in Salamanca, New York, located on the Allegany territory of the Seneca nation. Teachers have criticized the program, deeming it “inappropriate” and claiming it dehumanizes the profession with the introduction of human-like robots….

The Kria module is designed to deliver compute and AI workload processing for physical AI. | Credit: AMD Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is making a full-stack play for robotics with its new Ryzen AI Embedded X100 series and Kria AI Robotics platform. AMD today promised deterministic real-time control, unified CPU–GPU–NPU memory, and an open, non–vendor-locked…

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming industries, economies, and everyday life, forcing governments worldwide to consider how the technology should be regulated. Australia has recently taken steps toward developing a national AI strategy, while global technology leaders are calling for stronger oversight of advanced AI systems before they are released to the public. Executives from major…