The Robot Report Podcast · From Teach-and-Repeat to SelfPath AI: The next robotics leap John Black, CTO, Brain Corp. In Episode 259 of The Robot Report Podcast, the topic is scaling robot fleets and building trust while operating in public spaces. Our guest is John Black, chief technology officer at Brain Corp. He has…
Danny Bernstein (l) from Reservoir and Sean Sundberg (r) from John Deere announced a partnership at the Ruggedize event. | Credit: Reservoir Deere & Co. last week posted Q3 2026 net income of $1.379 billion, or $5.10 per share, outperforming market expectations despite headwinds in its Production and Precision Agriculture division—the primary unit driving revenue…
Radha Basu, EVP and head of iMerit (left), and Rohit Kapoor, CEO of EXL (right). Credit: Mark Liflander, EXL The actions of physical AI, including robots, are only as good as the human expertise and data used to build the AI models that train them. ExlService Holdings Inc. this month completed its acquisition of iMerit…
NeuraGrasp can grasp a wide range of items, from small containers to porous polybags and cloth items. | Source: Locus Robotics Locus Robotics Corp. has successfully tackled many robotic challenges in real working environments. Its autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, have navigated countless miles in a variety of facilities, and they have aided in more…
There are many theories as to how the diabetes drug metformin lowers blood sugar levels, but now, scientists think they’ve discovered the main route. It turns out that the drug, primarily used in The new study suggests that metformin changes the activity of mitochondria (pictured) inside intestinal cells in a way that ultimately causes them…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Back-to-school season is a great time to donate. Kids have outgrown things. Backpacks didn’t survive the year. Notebooks never got opened. Most of it ends up in the trash, and a smaller portion ends up at Goodwill, where it’s gone in days. “The school year can impose a significant…
Episode Description: Karissa hosts solo this week while Arielle recovers, covering ten solutions including the world’s first wild bird flu vaccination program for Phillip Island’s little penguins, France making unsolicited telemarketing calls flat-out illegal, and what Baltimore is doing with $400 million in opioid settlement money. If you have questions, comments, feedback, suggestions, or just…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Little penguins are the world’s smallest species of penguin, standing about the height of a ruler, found only in southern Australia and New Zealand. Every night on Phillip Island in Victoria, tens of thousands of them come in from the sea and return to the same burrows they left…
Refrigerators, air-conditioning systems and data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity, and cooling demand is constantly rising. A research team from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Tsukuba in Japan is presenting a new approach demonstrated by a prototype in which heat assumes the role formerly played by an electric motor.
Scientists may have found a way to regenerate the neurons that are lost due to conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, a new laboratory study hints. The research, published Aug. 26 in the journal The team applied a tool called Nano-Eraser to inhibit the protein PTBP1 in astrocytes. This changed them into neurons, they report. (Image credit:…
