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Galbot’s humanoid robots do the boring stuff, and that’s the point Moravec‘s Paradox

Galbot’s humanoid robots do the boring stuff, and that’s the point

What else can humanoid robots do besides dancing and somersaulting? If anyone is qualified to answer this pointed question raised by Zhu Xiaohu, it’s Wang He, an assistant professor at Peking University and founder and CTO of Galbot. The startup is a key player in China’s embodied artificial intelligence sector,…
bubmag
July 9, 2025
UK court convicts 3 men of arson in attack linked to Russia’s Wagner Group Ukraine

UK court convicts 3 men of arson in attack linked to Russia’s Wagner Group

Attack on equipment for Ukraine was planned by Wagner mercenaries on behalf of Russian intelligence, prosecutors said. A jury in the United Kingdom has convicted three men of arson following an attack on an east London warehouse that was storing Starlink satellite equipment destined for Ukraine. Prosecutors had alleged that…
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July 9, 2025
Scientists hail rapid estimate of climate change’s role in heat deaths as a first Climate Change

Scientists hail rapid estimate of climate change’s role in heat deaths as a first

Ten days of extreme heat killed 2,305 people in a sample of 12 European cities last month, with almost two-thirds of those deaths caused by climate change’s intensifying effect on heatwaves, new research estimated on Wednesday. The early summer heatwave, which sparked wildfires and health warnings from Spain to Turkey,…
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July 9, 2025
Indonesia tests shows blood mercury rising at ground zero of world energy transition NSA

Indonesia tests shows blood mercury rising at ground zero of world energy transition

MALUKU, Indonesia — Just four months after Mongabay reported on a dramatic surge in diagnoses of respiratory illness near Indonesia’s second-largest nickel industrial estate, new data indicate that up to half the local population may have been exposed to unsafe levels of mercury — and one in three to harmful…
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July 9, 2025
‘First Strength, Then Peace’: Netanyahu Says U.S.-Israel Strikes on Iran ‘Roared Like Thunder,’ Shifted Middle East Donald Trump

‘First Strength, Then Peace’: Netanyahu Says U.S.-Israel Strikes on Iran ‘Roared Like Thunder,’ Shifted Middle East

“These are momentous times,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday following a private meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), hailing joint U.S.-Israeli military action under President Donald Trump’s doctrine of “peace through strength” for reshaping the Middle East and causing what he called “a great change in our…
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July 9, 2025