Moravec‘s Paradox

Hydraulic-powered power suits that help the wearer lift and carry heavy objects, or move around with ease, have been around for years, but a team of Chinese researchers recently launched a new and unusual model inspired by the mythological centaur. The aptly-named ‘Centaur’ power suit is essentially a bipedal robot…

World OpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral last fall as a place to share short-form videos generated by artificial intelligence, but also raised alarms in Hollywood and beyond about the dangers of letting people create AI videos that resulted in nonconsensual images and realistic…

The agency will increase robotic missions to the moon and launch a spacecraft called Space Reactor 1 Freedom. NASA has unveiled a major overhaul of its moon and Mars strategy, scrapping plans for a lunar-orbit space station and instead committing $20bn over the next seven years to build a base…

WeRide, the Nasdaq-listed autonomous driving company, reported its full-year 2025 results on March 23, posting record revenue of RMB 684.6 million (USD 99.3 million), up 89.6% year-on-year, as fourth-quarter revenue more than doubled to RMB 314 million (USD 45.5 million). Robotaxi revenue rose 209.6% to RMB 148 million (USD 21.5…

Elon Musk said his Terafab project — a grand plan to eventually manufacture his own chips for robotics, artificial intelligence and space data centers — will be built in Austin and jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX. Musk, the chief executive officer of both companies, said he will start off…

Appearing in a recent Bloomberg TV interview, the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Jamie Dimon, examined artificial intelligence (AI) and outlined how his bank is deploying the technology across a wide range of functions. Dimon points to the potential gains AI may bring while also acknowledging a…

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The rapid ascent of artificial intelligence and semiconductor manufacturing has created a paradox: Industries are booming yet they face a critical shortage of skilled workers. Demand for data center technicians, fabrication facility workers, and similar positions is growing. There aren’t enough candidates with the right skill sets to fill the…

In retaliation for the ongoing U.S.–Israeli war, Iran responded with a novel form of counterattack. For the first time in military history, private sector data centers came under deliberate attack. In an era when companies known for e-commerce, social networks, and search engines have also become close collaborators with militaries,…

This photo taken on March 17, 2026 shows robots at a workshop of Inovance Group in Jiangning District of Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province. In recent years, east China's Jiangsu Province has prioritized embodied robotics as a key future industry. Innovation centers and data collection and training hubs for embodied…