Robotics

According to Wired's reporting this week, a test engineer at Anduril's Mississippi rocket motor factory was assembling an electrical igniter when it misfired.

The day Figure AI's Figure 03 humanoid robot walked into the White House beside Melania Trump, the company's stock line practically wrote itself: political legitimacy, American-made branding, a multilingually-greeted summit on education and technology.

Verne's first robotaxi won't roll out of San Francisco or Shenzhen.

In the twelve months ending October 2025, drug overdoses killed roughly 71,542 Americans, according to provisional CDC data https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/data-research/facts-stats/index.html.

On a bright landing pad at Victory Base in Iraq, someone parked a medevac helicopter behind a low blast wall and left it there.

Unitree Robotics filed to raise ¥4.2 billion — roughly $610 million — on Shanghai's STAR Market last week, and the numbers in the filing read like a venture capitalist's fever dream.

It walked on December 20, 1996, and the engineers in the room knew exactly how long it would last.

Two robots.

Tourist drones disrupt 83 flights, trigger military action in Vietnam A 25-year-old Chinese tourist was standing near East Sea Park on Vo Nguyen Giap Street in Da Nang on March 14 when a patrol team caught him flying a DJI Mavic 3 Pro without a permit.

When a gunman opened fire at Bufords on West 6th Street in Austin on the morning of March 1, an ambulance trying to reach the scene had to navigate around a Waymo robotaxi that had stopped in the road to pick up a passenger.

It looks like a strip of tape spring.