⚠️ US company Anduril’s Omen drone enters mass production.

Anduril started developing Omen in 2019 and flew the first demonstrators in 2020. Hundreds of flight hours have been logged across more than 30 prototypes.

Omen is now the first tail-sitter aircraft to receive a mass-production contract.

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A space science museum in Japan that lets you experience what it feels like to be on other planets.

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⚙️ Robot tiles that let you walk forever in VR

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba built a tile that moves under your feet as you walk. It uses sensors to read your gait and predict where your next step will land.

✅ Each tile slides into place before your foot touches down.
✅ To you, it feels like you keep walking forward.
✅ In reality, the system keeps you in the same small area.

This could remove one of the biggest limits in VR. You get natural walking without a big treadmill setup. And no risk of drifting into a wall. Simple idea. Clever execution. Robotics keeps finding strange ways to solve motion problems.

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"They don’t grow on trees. But now they will get built in factories."

Elon Musk explains the "extreme complexity" of the 50-actuator Optimus hand, framing it as the key to Tesla's "Sustainable Abundance" goal and a future where "superhuman" surgical precision is available to everyone.

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A glowing human silhouette running inside a volumetric LED matrix

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This is what Apple’s new $150/$230 iPhone Pocket looks like

The newest Apple product inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth” has already sold out.

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Never give up!

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ByteDance strikes again: Depth Anything 3 turns single images into highly accurate 3D depth maps using one unified transformer, eliminating much of the complexity of multi-view geometry!

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Jeff Bezos: Amazon will eventually have data centers and solar panels in space

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Optimus asks the person to give him the popcorn box by waving

All this done by AI

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Elon Musk says he doesn't think anyone will have control over superintellignece any more than a chimp would have control over humans.

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Jeff Bezos has spoken about how GenAI and LLMs are more like “discoveries” than “inventions”.

With this frame, the mission of his new Prometheus Projects AI startup to find new engineering and manufacturing techniques for space, auto and computers makes a lot of sense.

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Ego-VCP: a learned ego-vision world model trained offline on demonstration-free random data that predicts dynamics in latent space for humanoid robots.

Achieved robust real-time contact-rich planning on a real Unitree G1: bracing against walls, blocking flying objects, traversing low arches.

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Each Starship launch is one step closer to Mars

— Elon Musk

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Paralyzed man Alex Conley flew a drone plane using only his thoughts with Neuralink and even coded the system himself with the help of the implant

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Microsoft Azure posted this today:

“Starting today, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 models are available in Microsoft Foundry.”

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Google Gemini 3 Pro is officially out.

Google DeepMind says the new model now leads major benchmarks, with 91.9% on GPQA Diamond, 37.5% on Humanity’s Last Exam, 81% on MMMU Pro, 87.6% on Video MMMU and a 1501 Elo on LMArena.

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7-Eleven has opened an unmanned store

The store uses a grab-and-go system with more than 140 cameras and LiDAR plus AI image-tracking technology.

Customers simply pick up what they want and leave, and the system automatically completes the checkout.

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Google CEO, Sundar Pichai:

The excitement around AI is rational because demand already exceeds what we can serve

This cycle is similar to the internet: the investment was excessive, but the technology was profound and permanent. "No company is immune to the bubble phase"

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Figure has shared numbers on its 11-month humanoid deployment at BMW's Spartanburg factory.

- Contributed to the production of 30,000+ cars (X3 vehicles).
- 90,000+ parts loaded.
- Ran 10-hour shifts, Monday to Friday.
- Estimated 200+ miles of walking.
- A single Figure 02 robot achieved 6 months of daily runtime at the factory.
- The top hardware failure point was the forearm. Learning have informed the Figure 03 design.

Three Critical KPIs were defined:
- Cycle Time: 84 seconds.
- Part loading accuracy: >99% per shift
- Zero interventions requiring a pause or reset of the robot (per shift).

The company says: "To meet this (the KPIs), our robot had to achieve precise yet adaptive locomotion, allowing rapid, accurate foot placement and real-time responsiveness to environmental changes."

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China’s autonomous minibuses will soon fill Belgium's roads — first is the city of Leuven

"We see that all technology is working well in the city environment in China, so it's showing the protentional for the future in Europe"

— Managing Director of Espaces-Mobilites, Belgian engineering firm

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