U.K.-based Humanoid secures $152M in Series A funding

U.K.-based Humanoid secures $152M in Series A funding By Mike Oitzman | July 21, 2026 The HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled robot. | Credit: Humanoid AI Humanoid, an AI and robotics company building industrial humanoids, today announced a $152 million Series A financing at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation. This funding brings the total amount raised … Devamını oku

Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination

Meta is working on an AI storytelling app called StoryKit , which creates AI-generated children’s stories with custom characters, settings, lessons, and music. As the App Store listing assures parents, “You don’t need to write a single word.” At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pastime: using our imaginations. … Devamını oku

Vicarious Surgical officially shutting down

Vicarious Surgical officially shutting down By Jim Hammerand | July 21, 2026 Vicarious Surgical investors today voted to shut down and liquidate the surgical robotics developer immediately. The news was first reported by our sister website MassDevice . Vicarious CEO Stephen From, who joined the company in 2025 and lost his job today along with … Devamını oku

A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample

The notorious Jacobian conjecture can be formulated concretely over the complex numbers as follows. Conjecture 1 (Jacobian Conjecture) Let be a polynomial map in complex variables, whose Jacobian is a non-zero constant. Then is invertible (with polynomial inverse). The condition that the Jacobian is non-zero is equivalent to being locally invertible. (The implication of local … Devamını oku

AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app

All the big entertainment apps are starting to look the same, and that’s not an accident. For a decade, platforms fought over who would dominate a single format: music, video, podcasts, audiobooks. Now, powered by AI, they’re fighting over something bigger — becoming the app you default to whenever you have time to kill, no … Devamını oku

Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents

Twitter and Block co-founder Jack Dorsey announced a new app on Tuesday called Buzz . Positioned as a challenger to Slack and GitHub, Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversations. Dorsey wrote on X that Buzz is “model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open … Devamını oku

Generative Bionics unveils humanoid robot with full-body tactile sensing

Generative Bionics unveils humanoid robot with full-body tactile sensing By The Robot Report Staff | July 21, 2026 The Gene.01 humanoid is making its U.S. debut this week. | Source: Generative Bionics Generative Bionics, which developing humanoid robots for industrial applications, this week unveiled Gene.01 at AMD Advancing AI 2026. Built in six months, the … Devamını oku