ANYbotics began shipping ANYmal X to customers this week, giving oil, gas, and chemical plants their first four-legged inspection robot certified to operate in areas where a single spark could ignite flammable gas. Equinor and DSM-Firmenich are among the first recipients. For years the Swiss company refined the machine through an early-access program that put units through hundreds of onshore and offshore missions with BP, Shell, PETRONAS, Petrobras, BASF, and SLB.
Toyota’s CALTY design team in Ann Arbor built a family of five concepts that turn ordinary body-on-frame trucks and SUVs into machines meant for deep, unplowed snow. The Tundra, Tacoma, 4Runner, Land Cruiser, and Sequoia each lose their tires and gain large white powder-coated track assemblies that bolt onto the existing hubs.
Photo credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Far beyond ordinary sight, a towering filament of dust and gas has taken on the unmistakable outline of a cat sitting with its back turned. Astronomers call the structure the Cat’s Head Nebula, a compact formation nestled inside the much larger Carina Nebula roughly 7,500 light-years from Earth. Intense ultraviolet radiation and winds from massive nearby stars have spent ages carving the surrounding material, leaving denser pockets to resist the erosion and form the long, irregular pillar that now resembles a feline body, head, and downward tail.
Google’s latest compact flagship, the Pixel 11 Pro, priced at $799 today (was $1,100), arrives with a 6.3-inch LTPO OLED that reaches 3,600 nits of peak brightness and keeps a fluid 1-to-120 Hz range, numbers that sit ahead of the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s 2,600-nit ceiling and match or edge the iPhone 18 Pro’s 3,000-nit outdoor peak.
Honda Racing Corporation USA unveiled its Passport Baja Spec Trophy Truck at a private downtown Los Angeles event, with the first public appearance scheduled for SEMA 2026 in Las Vegas from November 3 to 6 in the HRC booth. This purpose-built racer becomes the first hybrid-powered vehicle entered in the SCORE World Desert Championship top Trophy Truck class. A mid-mounted 2.4-liter twin-turbocharged all-aluminum V6 sits behind the cab and works with an 800-volt hybrid system to produce more than 1,300 horsepower.