🇨🇳 China has started making its own rain

In central China’s Shanxi, a residential community has drawn attention for its “rooftop rain”. This is a mist cooling system that drops surface temperatures by 5–8°C in minutes.

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UBTech’s humanoid features remarkably lifelike skin.

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🔥 This is the Scorpion Hexapod, a six-legged robotic scorpion created at Ghent University UGent Campus Kortrijk in Belgium.

It was built by students Stephan Flamand Robbe Terryn and Pieterjan Deconinck as part of an Embedded Prototyping / Mechatronics Design project.

What it is:

• A biomimetic robot inspired by the body and movement of a real scorpion
• A hexapod, meaning it walks on six legs
• A university prototype, not a commercial robot
• Built to test animal-inspired movement, sensors and interactive behavior
• Designed more for robotics research and education than real-world work

Main hardware:

• 6 walking legs for crawling movement
• 2 front claws for the scorpion look
• Moving tail with a stinger-style mechanism
• Sensors in the body, legs and claws
• Arduino-based electronics for control
• Front camera and proximity sensing
• Battery pack for mobile operation
• 3D-printed modules for legs and tail
• Laser-cut ABS body parts
• Thermoformed shell for the white outer body

What it can do:

• Walk across the floor using its six legs
• Move its tail like a real scorpion
• React when a person gets close
• Detect when someone covers its front sensors
• Strike with its tail in the demo
• Leave a red mark using a marker pen attached to the stinger
• Operate through remote control
• Perform some simple autonomous reactions

Why it was created:

• To explore bio-inspired robotics
• To show how digital fabrication can produce complex moving robots
• To combine 3D printing, laser cutting, Arduino electronics and sensors
• To teach students how to design a complete mechatronic system
• To improve on an older robotic ant project that had weak autonomy, short battery life and motor problems
• To create an interactive robot that reacts to humans in a visible way

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🤖 Anthropic launches Claude Science for research

Anthropic introduced Claude Science, an AI agent designed as an end-to-end research infrastructure. It handles literature search, data analysis, computation, visualization, and article preparation in one interface.

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China’s ultra realistic bionic robots make their stage debut, with prices from $16,700 to $138,000, over 13,000 pre orders already, and deliveries starting in September.

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🗣️ Mark Zuckerberg says smart glasses are reaching the same point as smartphones

They are already a normal part of daily life for billions of people, which makes them a natural form factor for AI. "In five years, it may feel strange for glasses not to have built-in intelligence".

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🇨🇳 China is making AI education mandatory from childhood.

China’s State Council has unveiled a five-year plan that makes AI literacy a core skill for every student. Beginning at around age 6, AI will be taught throughout primary and secondary school, then continue into universities and colleges.

The initiative goes far beyond teaching students how to use chatbots. It is part of Xi Jinping’s long-term strategy to build AI leadership, strengthen national competitiveness, and challenge the United States in the technologies expected to define the next generation.

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🤖 Anthropic restores Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models

The US Commerce Department lifted export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, allowing access to resume this Wednesday. The rollout starts on Claude platforms and will expand to AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry.

Anthropic had to disable these models after Amazon researchers flagged a hacking risk. To fix this, they trained a new protective classifier that blocks the exploit over 99% of the time, redirecting blocked requests to Opus 4.8.

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🔥 Jensen Huang’s iconic leather jacket is going up for auction.

The Tom Ford leather jacket, personally signed by Jensen Huang, is being auctioned with a starting bid of $40,000.

Huang wore the jacket during Hon Hai Tech Day in Taipei on October 18, 2023, where Nvidia introduced its vision for AI factories, a milestone in the company’s AI push.

The auction is for charity, with 100% of the proceeds going to The Edge Institute, a nonprofit organization.

For AI collectors, it might just be the most expensive leather jacket in tech history.

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Steve jobs gets called out on stage in front of a crowd and here's how he responded:

1. A guy stood up and went off on him. said it was sad and clear that jobs didn't know what he was talking about. asked what exactly he'd been doing for the last seven years.

2. Jobs didn't get defensive. he agreed with him. said the guy was probably right, there are things other products do that apple's don't do as well.

3. But he said that's the wrong question. the real question is how does any one feature fit into a bigger vision that can actually sell billions of dollars of product a year.

4. He admitted his own biggest mistake was starting with the technology and then trying to figure out who'd buy it. said you have to start with the customer experience and work backward to the tech, never the other way around.

5. Gave the laser printer as proof. they crammed insane engineering into that first machine. but nobody needed to know any of it. all he did was hold up the printout and ask "do you want this?" that was the whole pitch.

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Vibe-coders work on a $1 billion AI startup at 2 AM.

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🗣Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang on AI's most underrated impact:

"AI is enabling the creation of more businesses than ever before in the world."

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🤖 Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robots Mimic Haaland

Atlas from Boston Dynamics appeared at the World Cup halftime between Brazil and Norway. It handed the ball to the referee and copied Erling Haaland's signature goal celebration.

Hyundai Motor Group now fully owns Boston Dynamics and has started mass production of Atlas. They plan to produce 30,000 units by 2028.

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🇺🇸 President Trump says AI could be “much bigger than the internet” arguing that whoever leads the race will define the next era.

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Unitree G1 tap dancing at concerts in China.

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Tim Cook on what he learned from Steve Jobs:

1. Steve was focused on products, products, products. not the stock price, not the org chart. Everything came back to what you were actually making.

2. He taught me that making things simple is far harder than making them complex, anyone can add. The real work is stripping something down.

3. The biggest products came from the smallest teams. The first iPod team was tiny. The iphone team was tiny. Small teams can do amazing things.

4. Hire people who challenge you. Surround yourself with people who have skills you don't have. Then be confident enough to actually want that.

5. Don’t get married to your past views. Steve could change his mind in an instant when new evidence showed up. Most people can't do it, because their pride won't let them.

6. He loved to debate. He wanted you to push back. You could always change his mind if you had the better idea, and he'd change yours. That’s why it worked.

7. I was taken aback by how fast he could switch positions. Then I became enamored with it. Very few people have that skill.

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🇨🇳 China unveils a smaller, more powerful Carbon-14 nuclear battery

Chinese researchers have developed a 2nd generation carbon-14 (¹⁴C) betavoltaic nuclear battery that delivers significantly higher power density while using much less radioactive material. The battery generates electricity from the natural radioactive decay of carbon-14, enabling continuous, maintenance-free power for ultra-low-power devices.

Compared with the previous design, the new battery uses just 22% of the radioactive material, increases short circuit current by 2.5×, boosts maximum output power by 2.6×, shrinks the device to 17% of its original volume and achieves a 15.5× increase in volumetric power density.

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"Every single company is built on some foundation of intelligence that's specialized.
We're not good at everything, but we're very, very good at one thing. That specialization, your company's intelligence, is who you are."

- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

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🚀 China now officially the THIRD organization in the world to recover an orbital booster after SpaceX and Blue Origin

Today CALT’s Long March 10B flew its first mission and recovered its booster using a wire-net capture system.

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⚡️Mitsubishi Motors is stepping into humanoid robots

The company is partnering with Highlanders, a University of Tokyo-affiliated startup,to repurpose idle space in its Kyoto engine plant for a new production line, and manufactured using the Mitsubishi supply chain.

Mass production is planned to start in 2027, with an initial target of 1,000 units per month.

The first batch will be deployed internally for tasks like parts handling and engine assembly. Notably, the robots will collect data on the job to help train physical AI foundation models.

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🇨🇳 China’s UBTech launched UWORLD U1

A humanoid robot series built for home companionship, emotional support, elder care, education, reception, and premium service settings.

The U1 comes in Lite, Pro, and Ultra versions, with prices ranging from 119,800 yuan to 990,000 yuan, or roughly $17,650 to $146,000. The robots are available in both male and female versions, with the most advanced models priced near $145,835.

The robot uses lifelike silicone skin, expressive faces, eye contact, and 88 servo joints for human-like movement. Some higher-end versions are being marketed around ultra-realistic details like skin texture and synthetic human-like presence.

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