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Graduate student Dian Li working with a robotic hand. Credit: Melanie Gonick. By Jennifer Chu The next time you’re scrolling your phone, take a moment to appreciate the feat: The seemingly mundane act is possible thanks to the coordination of 34 muscles, 27 joints, and over 100 tendons and ligaments in your hand. Indeed, our…

Insider Brief Channel Robotics has raised $2.5 million in Seed+ funding, bringing its total funding to $4.6 million, to advance development of a handheld robotic platform for endoscopic procedures. The San Diego-based company is developing an AI-enabled system designed to work with existing flexible endoscopes, with the goal of providing robotic-assisted dexterity without the large,…

Hi everyone, I'm planning to build a local AI server for business automation and would appreciate some feedback on the hardware before I buy the remaining parts. The workflow will use n8n for orchestration, Ollama + Qwen3-30B-A3B (Q8) for local inference, PostgreSQL + pgvector for RAG, and maybe later Open WebUI as the interface. A…

However, its biggest classroom is not a laboratory. In Shenzhen and Beijing, X Square Robot has partnered with 58.com to launch an AI-powered cleaning service where robots work alongside professional cleaners in occupied homes. Instead of carefully staged demonstrations, the machines are navigating cluttered living spaces and responding to the unpredictability of daily life. Under…

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary school piqued her curiosity about the natural world. During that time, she was introduced to Logo, a computer program with a turtle cursor to help children learn basic coding through hands-on…

Imagine tiny robots made from DNA moving through the bloodstream, delivering drugs exactly where they are needed and targeting threats such as cancer cells or viruses. These microscopic machines could also assemble ultra-precise data storage systems and computing devices at the nanometer scale. Although the possibilities are remarkable, most DNA robots today remain in early…