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Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold. It was only two months ago that Microsoft patched a then-record 570 vulnerabilities. Then, last month, Microsoft…
Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.
Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.
OpenAI says it found a solution to a major math problem that has remained unsolved for around 90 years, as reported earlier by The New York Times and Wired. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it discovered a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem - which relates to…
Dynamic Creatures co-founder and CEO Marc Theermann (left) and co-founder and CTO Farbod Farshidian. | Source: Dynamic Creatures | Source: Dynamic Creatures Boston Dynamics is focused on commercializing robots for industrial work, but it’s always had time for some fun, too.…
I used ChatGPT and its Sketch tool to make this AI-generated image of a cat. OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday and is adding a new way to tell ChatGPT what you want it to make an image of: by drawing a doodle. With a new feature called Sketch, you can just draw…
Editor’s note: Andreas Friedrich, managing director technology and strategy, Allegro MicroSystems, will be speaking at RoboBusiness, which will be on Oct. 20 and 21 in Santa Clara, Calif. He will dissect the critical technological advancements that are making next-generation…
Meta is making another push to bring artificial intelligence to the masses with Muse, a personal assistant it says can put AI in the hands of virtually anyone. The product is the latest step in a multi-billion-dollar strategy overhaul designed to revitalize the company's ailing…
Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
Anthropic says power users are key to its business - it's prioritized them even when it means cutting off other popular applications, like OpenClaw. But some of these same customers say Anthropic misled them into believing they'd get more out of a top-tier pricing subscription…
ViAct offers viBOT, an autonomous robotic monitor for construction. | Source: viAct Construction is entering a new era of automation. Autonomous earthmoving equipment is beginning to reshape excavation. Robotic layout systems are improving precision. Drones are inspecting…
Google DeepMind has unveiled an AI tool that its scientists claim could help unravel the mysteries of the human genome and transform our understanding of biology, accelerating scientific research and ultimately paving the way for new treatments for diseases. The platform, called…
Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visited, earlier this year, there’s only one other person there, and little in the way of…
Inbolt’s technology lets robots grasp parts however they can, then uses in-hand localization to adjust trajectory mid-move. | Source: Inbolt Physical AI’s consensus says progress is gated by data. More of it, better curated, better simulated. That’s true in the lab. In the…
Agility Robotics said it has deployed its Digit humanoid at 9 customer sites as it gears up to go public via a proposed SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp. XI. Now we’re getting a first look at Agility’s financials thanks to a new S-4 filing with the SEC. According to the…
You sit down and put your arm in the cradle. You press a button. The machine takes it from there. A near-infrared light sweeps your inner elbow, hunting for a vein. A puff of alcohol hits your skin. An ultrasound probe glides across your arm, mapping how deep the vessel runs and…
Respondents were evenly split between favorable and unfavorable views of the FCC robotics ban. Source: MassRobotics In July 2026, the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, said it has determined that foreign-made “advanced robotic devices,” including certain mobile robots…
Eric Sivertson, VP of Security Business, Lattice Eric Sivertson recently discussed field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, on The Robot Report Podcast, Episode 260. The vice president of the security business at Lattice Semiconductor discussed how FPGAs are a critical…
UMI gripper equipped with uSkin sensors and real-time tactile data visualization. Source: XELA Robotics Robotic gripping rarely fails because of a lack of mechanical strength. It fails because the system does not truly know what the fingers are doing at the moment of contact.…
The ARM Institute has over 500 member organizations and partners across industry, academia, and government. | Source: ARM Institute This week, the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute received nearly $90 million in funding for 10 projects led by the consortium…
Imagine you are trapped under rubble after an earthquake and you see an electronics-covered cockroach with a spring-loaded needle on its back scuttling toward you. Although the sight might be unnerving, to say the least, this prototype paramedic cyborg, or “Paraborg,” might one…
eCential says its open, modular platform allows it to collaborate with technology companies and implant manufacturers. | Source: eCential Robotics Enovis Corp., a medical technology company, this week said it entered into a binding offer to acquire eCential Robotics for €155…
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
Self-identifying OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki that discussed ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions during what was likely internal testing designed to gauge the agents’ hacking abilities, researchers said Friday. In all, agents…
The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once. These real-world breakthroughs…
The Robot Report Podcast · How FPGAs become the gatekeepers of Physical AI Security Eric Sivertson, VP at Lattice. In Episode 260 of The Robot Report Podcast, the topics are FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays), physical AI, and building safe and secure robots. Our guest is…
A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters on email platforms that are designed to flag unwanted messages used in mass campaigns. The technique is broadly known as ASCII smuggling. It gained attention…
The robotics industry is rapidly changing and growing. Each year, we see new robotics startups launch into the scene with exciting technology. At The Robot Report, we want to help our readers keep up with this ever-changing landscape. So, we’re bringing back the Robotics Startup…
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23…