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Robotics & Drones
Front Page Archive October 2026
Robotics & Drones1,137 words6 min read
Humanoid Robots Start Walking Factory Floors in 2026 — The Stakes Are Real
Figure AI shipped its second-generation Figure 02 in early January 2026. The robot stands 5 feet 6 inches, carries a 44-pound payload, and walks at 2.5 meters per second. It is not a lab demo. The company has already placed units at a BMW…
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Robotics & Drones
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Robotics & Drones
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Semiconductors
October 2026
EV1,037 words5 min read
BYD Just Beat Tesla at Its Own Game, and Indonesia Is About to Cash In
BYD sold more electric vehicles than Tesla last quarter. The Chinese automaker delivered 426,000 battery electric vehicles in the final three months of 2025, edging out Tesla's roughly…
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EV
EV1,240 words6 min read
Europe's Affordable EV Wave Collides With the Rules That Made It
Europe's electric car market crossed a threshold in 2026 that carmakers spent most of the last decade promising and never quite delivering: a real supply of cars most people can afford to…
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Battery Tech
Battery Tech1,034 words5 min read
ProLogium's All-Solid-State Battery Enters Mass Production
ProLogium Technology said on Sept. 2 that its Gen 3.5 lithium ceramic battery is now in mass production at its giga-level facility in Taiwan. The company has shipped more than 2.4 million…
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Battery Tech
Battery Tech1,470 words7 min read
GM Leads $108M Funding Round for Sodium-Ion Battery Startup Peak Energy
General Motors has led a $108 million funding round for Peak Energy, a sodium-ion battery startup building grid-scale energy storage systems in the United States. The investment, announced…
IoT1,283 words6 min read
IoT Is Leaving the Living Room — And It Doesn’t Need Your Wi-Fi Anymore
Your refrigerator is now a certified IoT device, and it’s not alone. In October 2023 the Connectivity Standards Alliance released Matter 1.2, adding nine new device types to the open…
IoT1,678 words8 min read
Anthropic Warns: Self-Replicating AI Worms Could Spread Through Cellular IoT Devices Within Months
Researchers at Anthropic's Frontier Red Team have demonstrated that small AI models are months away from being capable of autonomous replication across commercial internet-of-things…
AI1,156 words6 min read
Open Source AI Has Started Eating the Big Labs' Lunch
The gap between closed labs and open-source releases has shrunk to a point where price, not capability, decides contracts. DeepSeek, Llama, and Qwen models now score within 5 to 10 percent…
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AI
AI1,801 words9 min read
AI's Converging Crossroads: OpenAI's Math Breakthrough, Singapore's Governance Blueprint, and Gartner's $3.5 Trillion Impairment Warning
Introduction In a single week in early October 2026, three developments landed that, taken together, outline the shape of the AI industry's most pressing contradictions. OpenAI released…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
Cloud & Edge Computing1,081 words5 min read
NTT DATA expands data‑center footprint in 2024, adding 370 MW of capacity
NTT DATA announced in January 2025 that it added 10 new data centers across the globe during 2024, delivering more than 370 megawatts of capacity to meet climbing demand from AI and cloud…