Warner settles lawsuit with AI music firm and launches joint venture https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdrl7lr039o.amp This is what I call the "we know we can't stop it so give us our cut" type of joint venture.
And then there's Iran Internet mocks Iranians dressed as 'advanced humanoid robots' at tech expo https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-876379
Robot Walks for Three Days Straight, Hotswapping Its Battery Over and Over in New World Record https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/robot-agibot-humanoid-walking
Scientists build tiny biological robots from human cells https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/scientists-build-tiny-biological-robots-from-human-cells/
Biohybrid Robots Are Here. Is Humanity Prepared? https://www.sify.com/ai-analytics/biohybrid-robots-are-here-is-humanity-prepared/
Unjammable drones are leaving wires everywhere, forcing Ukrainian troops to move with caution https://www.businessinsider.com/unj...es-force-ukrainians-move-with-caution-2025-11
Army pilots face low morale and ‘survivor remorse’ amid massive cuts One pilot said "it feels like we are designing a force that looks like Ukraine with drones and robots, forgetting that our primary thing is maneuver. We do that very well." https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-pilots-question-aviation-cuts/
Elon Musk’s Neuralink says its brain chip can now help people move robotic limbs https://www.euronews.com/health/202...n-chip-can-now-help-people-move-robotic-limbs
That sounds excellent. Now if it is only more grounded in fact than the three billion Musk said Doge would save...
Swarms of Magnetic Microrobots Mimic Ants to Lift, Float and Deliver Drugs https://www.tech360.tv/swarms-magnetic-microrobots-mimic-ants-to-lift-float-and-deliver-drugs
I'm sorry, I wrote that wrong. Musk claimed that DOGE would save three TRILLION dollars! Indications are he is well over two and a half trillion short.
Waymo refuses AISD request to cease operations after 20th school bus violation since Aug. https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/wa...se-operations-after-20th-school-bus-violation
Humanoid robot farmer? Malaysia plans to integrate bots to advance vertical farming https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/humanoid-robots-vertical-farming-malaysia
I would always chuckle when you used to see the early robot and robot dog designs and they would say things like "we are creating these for search and rescue missions so that they can save people" - of course that is why you are burning through billions of dollars in development costs, to save a few people from earthquakes in developing nations and not to create robot weapons that never fail to follow orders regardless of what they are.
The inevitability of one of these things running down a six year old getting off his bus is just the cost of doing business.
