How software-defined manufacturing fits into real factory operations

Roby Lynn, founder and CEO, R2 Labs. In Episode 258 ofThe Robot ReportPodcast, we discuss software-defined manufacturing, in which automation enables more flexible production. Our guest is Dr. Roby Lynn, the founder and CEO ofR2 Labs, a smart manufacturing technology provider. The Peachtree Corners, Ga.-based company’s flagship product, the RAC (R2 Autonomy Controller), brings new … Devamını oku

Paul Atkins Misreads Adam Smith and the American Founding

On June 30, Paul Atkins, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, stood before the Economic Club of New York and delivered a history lesson. With the nation’s 250th birthday days away, Mr. Atkinstoldhis audience that the Declaration of Independence and Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations,” both products of 1776, rest on “the same conviction: … Devamını oku

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic’suniversal usage standardsfor Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including depicting or requesting sexual intercourse or sex acts, generating content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies, or engaging in erotic chats. But that hasn’t stopped Claude Opus 4.6, an Anthropic model released earlier this year, from readily engaging in erotic roleplay scenarios … Devamını oku

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia is doing everything it can to keep fueling the AI buildout that has underpinned its own good fortunes. On Friday, itannounceda partnership with Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a company that lays the groundwork for data centers. Cloverleaf was founded in 2024 andraised $300 millionthat year. It acts as a kind of middleman between utility companies and … Devamını oku

Schaeffler plans to mass produce gearboxes for humanoid robots in 2027

Schaeffler developer its formed strain wave gearboxes especially for humanoid robots. | Source: Schaeffler Schaeffler Technologies AG is expanding its humanoid robotics product portfolio with its latest formed strain wave gearboxes. The company said it has concluded the extensive validation testing of the gearboxes and will be ready to start manufacturing them at scale in … Devamını oku

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

Hold on to your telescopes: theDESI Legacy Imaging Surveysteam has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly 4 billion celestial objects, primarily stars and galaxies. The data is available for all to use and publicly viewable through theLegacy Survey Sky Viewer. Astronomers and citizen scientists can explore the … Devamını oku

Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

Nvidiapublishedsome interesting new research on Friday suggesting it’s the harness, more than the underlying model, that is far more important when asking an AI to do long-horizon tasks. The tldr: simply by using a custom harness tweaked to handled memory well and including a “supervisor” boss-like component, researchers got Claude Opus 5 to achieve a … Devamını oku

Felony Bench

A benchmark you really don’t want models to be saturated with. Scores indicate count of illegal activity. Higher is… you decide. Felony Bench counts unique instances where AI agents affect third-party entities. Escaping a sandbox alone does not constitute a counted incident. It is for these reasons that Frontier Security’sKimi K3incident andAlibaba’s ROMEincident are not … Devamını oku