Mat Watkins lined up his Tesla Model S Plaid at the start of Carwow’s drag strip, the air thick with the smell of fresh asphalt and high stakes. Across from him stood the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra, a four-door from the Chinese electronics giant that had quietly entered the electric car market.
Kepler Robotics has started mass production of its K2 Bumblebee, a humanoid robot that’s ready to ship to customers. Based in Shanghai, the company announced it with a video showing the bot from concept to manufacturing lines, including footage of it folding clothes and sorting crates. Thousands of pre-orders are in, and at $30,000 this is the first robot you can buy off the shelf rather than waiting for some distant future promise.
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GameSir has always aimed to strike a balance between old-school charm and modern tech and this clip-on controller does just that without fanfare. The device is on display at their Tokyo Game Show booth and attaches to the bottom of a smartphone, turning the whole thing into a dead ringer for the original Game Boy.
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DJI has never been afraid to enter a crowded space with gear that quietly resets the bar. The Osmo 360, their first full 360-degree camera, dropped this summer and early adopters can’t stop posting videos that make the competition look bad. At $412.99 (was $549.99) for the standard combo, which includes extra batteries and a quick-release mount, it’s a good value in a space where $550 is considered entry level. Compared to the Insta360 X5 which was released a few months prior and is more expensive, the Osmo 360 beats it in ways that will benefit anyone looking for cleaner footage without endless toggling.
A team from the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University created a soft robot that defies all expectations, crawling across floors and climbing walls like a caterpillar. SPARC (Soft, Proprioceptive, Agile Robot for 3D Climbing) is a soft robot that uses origami-inspired designs to move as precisely as rigid robots while carrying loads more than twice as heavy.
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Cooling computer chips is a quiet war in the tech world; as AI pushes silicon to the limit, they are hotter than ever and traditional cooling is failing to keep up. Microsoft’s new discovery, microfluidics, can change the game by cooling from within.
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Preorders for Microsoft’s new portable gaming push began today, along with the prices for the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X. Both will be available on October 16, but the pricing has already sparked some concerns. These handhelds, priced at $599 for the base model and $999 for the X, are more comparable to high-end laptops than the consoles that many gamers are accustomed to.
