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NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids

MIT Technology Review·Aug 5, 2026

At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its quest is to hel…

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Make anniversary of Hiroshima bombing ‘Disarmament Day’

Japan Times Technology·Aug 5, 2026

Remembering Hiroshima cannot become a once-a-year ritual. It must become a reminder that nuclear weapons remain an urgent contemporary prob…

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U.S. ambassador to skip peace ceremonies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Japan Times Technology·Aug 5, 2026

This year's ceremonies will be the first missed by a U.S. ambassador since Rahm Emanuel skipped the event in Nagasaki in 2024.

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Piece of SpaceX rocket to crash into moon at high speed

South China Morning Post Tech·Aug 4, 2026

A SpaceX rocket piece floating in space since last year is on track to smash into the moon at high speed early on Wednesday morning. The sc…

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Zoox unveils production-ready robotaxi for U.S. expansion

The Robot Report·Aug 4, 2026

Amazon subsidiary Zoox unveiled its final production-ready robotaxi design and expanded testing following a subtle redesign to improve ride…

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U.S. Navy picks Blue Water Autonomy to use autonomous vessels for deep ocean surveys

The Robot Report·Aug 4, 2026

Blue Water Autonomy creates unmanned ships that can operate autonomously on the open ocean for months a time. The post U.S. Navy picks Blue…

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Humanoid

Humanoids won’t scale on factory floors until costs drop

The Robot Report·Aug 4, 2026

The race to commercialize humanoids is on. What’s left to prove is that humanoid robots can beat the economics of the automation manufactur…

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French, UK vessels save 157 migrants from burning boat in Channel

South China Morning Post Tech·Aug 4, 2026

French and British vessels saved 157 migrants after their boat caught fire while trying to cross the Channel on Tuesday, authorities in bot…

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Humanoid

The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE’s DNA grab

MIT Technology Review·Aug 4, 2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of t…

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Humanoid

What Robotics Companies Think About the U.S. Foreign Robot Ban

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Aug 4, 2026

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “Covered List,” originally published in 2021, identifies communications equipment and serv…

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Washington State wildfires destroy over 700 buildings and force 64,000 to flee

Japan Times Technology·Aug 4, 2026

Dozens of major wildfires have been burning across the drought-parched U.S. Pacific Northwest for weeks, degrading air quality across a wid…

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81 years on: Pedaling through Hiroshima’s history on two wheels

Japan Times Technology·Aug 4, 2026

"Peace tours" offer participants a glimpse of life in the city before, during and after the U.S atomic bombing of 1945.

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Palantir lifts outlook after ‘otherworldly’ commercial sales

Japan Times Technology·Aug 4, 2026

Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp said U.S. commercial sales in the second quarter rose 149% from a year earlier to $764 million, well abov…

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Why global migration data should recognise subgroups like the Teochew

South China Morning Post Tech·Aug 4, 2026

In countries like France and Norway, the government census strictly avoids asking about race and ethnicity. Governed by a desire for nation…

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‘Folded like an umbrella’: Trump attacks ally prosecutor over Reflecting Pool case

South China Morning Post Tech·Aug 4, 2026

US President Donald Trump sharply criticised ⁠US Attorney Jeanine Pirro ⁠on Monday for dropping ⁠a case of alleged vandalism at the Lincoln…

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igus launches energy chain with 600-degree rotation for industrial robots

The Robot Report·Aug 3, 2026

igus says its new twisterchain energy chain provides cable management for challenging industrial robotics applications such as palletizing.…

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Manipulation

Chinese executive filmed taking cash on Colombia metro, South America’s biggest project

South China Morning Post Tech·Aug 3, 2026

Colombian prosecutors are investigating allegations that executives of a Chinese state-owned contractor building the Bogota metro demanded…

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First deaths reported in US cyclosporiasis outbreak

South China Morning Post Tech·Aug 3, 2026

Two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan, state health officials announced Monday, the first deaths confirmed in the US…

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Humanoid

Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics

MIT Technology Review·Aug 3, 2026

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. H…

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Research

France condemns Farage-led plan to deploy British navy against Channel migrants

South China Morning Post Tech·Aug 3, 2026

France on Monday condemned a proposal by hard-right Reform UK party to launch, if it wins power, “the largest military operation” in the Ch…

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HEBI Robotics earns NASA SBIR grant to fast track miniaturized actuators

The Robot Report·Aug 3, 2026

This Phase I award is only part of HEBI Robotics' roadmap. The company also plans to continue developing its existing actuation hardware. T…

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Humanoid

Walden Robotics Partners With Toyota on Practical Humanoids

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Aug 3, 2026

For a while there, it seemed as though robotics as a whole was stuck in a mad rush towards building humanoid robots mostly because it was v…

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The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks

MIT Technology Review·Aug 3, 2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of t…

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Simulated zebrafish and a vision-equipped robotic fish reveal how the body shapes brain circuits

Robohub·Aug 3, 2026

Image credit: Olivier Porchet, Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL When a fish holds its position against a current in a river, its brain must fig…

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