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LimX Oli Humanoid Robot

LimX’s Oli Takes a Gritty Stroll Through the Rubble, Proves Humanoid Robots are More Than Just Novelty

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LimX Oli Humanoid Robot
LimX Dynamics, based in Shenzhen, has finally made a significant breakthrough with their humanoid robot Oli. At 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 121 pounds, this machine has long promised to offer more than just sterile lab test results. And, based on the footage published thus far, Oli is capable of delivering. It’s been put through its paces on a simulated construction site, with loose sand attempting to suck it under, boards attempting to shift out from under it, rocks protruding as if waiting for some clumsy robot to come along and get trapped, and piles of debris searching for an opportunity to trip it up.

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Hangzhou Traffic Robot China

Hangzhou’s New Street Sentinel is a Traffic Robot That Steps Up to Guide the Chaos

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Hangzhou Traffic Robot China
Hangzhou, home to a stunning 12 million people who are continuously speeding around town on motorcycles and in cars, has had one major issue: getting traffic to flow smoothly at crossings. However, a new high-tech traffic officer has recently appeared at the intersection of Binsheng Road and Changhe Road in the Binjiang area, and it has sparked much discussion among locals. They’ve named it Hangxing No. 1, and it’s a genuine oddity: a 1.8m-high traffic robot with arms sticking out at all directions.

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Northrop Grumman Project Talon Autonomous Aircraft

Northrop Grumman’s Project Talon Takes Flight in a Crowded Sky

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Northrop Grumman Project Talon Autonomous Aircraft
Northrop Grumman unveiled Project Talon in the vast hangars of the Mojave Air and Space Port in the California desert. This unmanned aircraft is ready to team up with fighter jets, transforming solo missions into coordinated raids that protect pilots and provide them a competitive advantage. Northrop’s engineers and the magicians at Scaled Composites have been pounding this prototype into shape over the past 15 months, and in just nine months, it will make its first flight.

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Apple AirPods 4 ANC 2025

Apple AirPods 4 with ANC Offer Open Ears and a Quiet World for $99

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Apple AirPods 4 ANC 2025
Apple has a talent for removing the annoyances from our everyday routines and replacing them with a refined sense of style. Consider earbuds: for years, you had to select whether you wanted them to be incredibly comfortable or super quiet. You choose open designs that allowed the world in, or sealed tips that kept you completely out of touch, even in a packed subway. With the AirPods 4, which have active noise cancellation, now available for $99 (was $179), all of that sounds like old history.

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Toyota GR GT Reveal

Toyota’s GR GT Aims to be Road Car That Drives Like a Racer

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Toyota GR GT Reveal
Toyota has recently revealed details about the GR GT, a two-seater that appears to be straight out of the company’s performance playbook. A front-engine supercar at a time when Toyota’s Gazoo racing squad has spent years fine-tuning cars like the Supra and GR Yaris, the GR GT takes it to the next level. It strikes a balance between being able to drive to the stores and having enough grip and speed to necessitate the presence of a nearby track.

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EPFL Crustacean Lobster Shell Robot Arms

Lobster Leftovers Become Robot Hands

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EPFL Crustacean Lobster Shell Robot Arms
Photo credit: 2025 CREATE Lab EPFL CC BY SA
In a small quiet lab tucked away in the Swiss countryside, a team of engineers has figured out a method to repurpose discarded langostino lobster shells into grippers that can pick up pens or tomatoes with amazing ease. These aren’t the conventional metal claws you see attached onto assembly lines; instead, they employ the leftovers from seafood dinners, combining biology’s trash with a few basic mechanical adjustments to make tools that bend and hold like something very much alive.

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Chroma Teal PlayStation DualSense Controller

Chroma Teal Offers Fresh Grip on PlayStation’s Signature DualSense Controller

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Chroma Teal PlayStation DualSense Controller
Sony’s new DualSense controller, known as Chroma Teal, priced at $59.99 (down from $79.99), offers a deep dark blue green that is as oceanic as it gets, and it appears to capture light in a way that few other peripherals can. This new version keeps all of the original design elements while wrapping them in a finish that changes color depending on where the light is coming from; it looks very different when held up under a desk lamp and warms up to a sort of verdant edge than when held out in the daylight and cools down to a lovely forest pond kind of tone.

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