Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs. Swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts. 70% drop in hospital admissions and days off from work or school when people with poorly controlled asthma had gas stove replaced with electric.

“In the future, the relationship between humans and robots will deepen, and the distinction between them will probably disappear.” This prediction, from one of the attendees at the recent Humanoids Summit in Tokyo, might have been unremarkable had it not come directly from an android that was first introduced to the world 20 years ago….

Walden Robotics has launched from stealth with $300 million in seed funding to develop and deploy general-purpose robots that can learn continuously while performing useful work in manufacturing, logistics and other industrial environments. The financing values the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based physical AI company at $1.1 billion. Toyota and Deviation Capital co-led the round. Toyota participated through…

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Humanoid robots at Carnegie Mellon University can’t play soccer like the professionals at FIFA. But they soon could, said Changliu Liu. An expert on humanoid robot motion learning, Liu leads the Intelligent Control Lab at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, where she’s an associate professor. Liu is teaching robots to move dynamically for sports and…