Photo credit: The University of Queensland
Australian researchers have fitted giant burrowing cockroaches with electrodes, cameras, and spring-loaded syringes so the insects can be steered like tiny remote vehicles and deliver medicine in places no human or ordinary robot can reach.
Chassis 136069 left Maranello in October 2004 in a color Ferrari almost never allowed. A member of the Royal Family of Brunei ordered this 2004 Enzo in Matte Nero Opaco, factory matte black applied to no other car in the 400-example run built from 2002 to 2004. Work began on June 8. Four months later the finished car went to the family’s London house with matching Nero leather, Nero carpets, Rosso gauges, and the larger seats. Occasional sightings in Hampstead, Mayfair, and Knightsbridge were as close as most people ever got to it.
Finished on a new Guangzhou line, XPENG’s Iron stood up and walked away on its own. No remote pilot. No stage crew. Just a completed humanoid leaving the factory floor the way a car leaves a paint booth, only this one used two legs. The company called the September 7 moment the first time an advanced general-purpose humanoid had been built on automated production lines and then departed under its own power.
Bose refreshed its everyday over-ears and left the price at $199 (was $359). QuietComfort Headphones now carry Immersive Audio, two-way USB-C sound, and smarter canceling that used to live on the more expensive Ultra models.
Huawei unveiled Mate XT 2 Ultimate Design in China today as its most expensive tri-fold yet, a phone that closes into a 6.5-inch slab and opens into a 10.2-inch tablet. Both wings now fold inward so the flexible panel sits fully protected when you snap it shut, a change from the mixed fold on the first Mate XT. Closed, the body measures 157.2 by 77 by 12.3 millimeters and weighs 299 grams. Fully spread, it stretches 219.2 millimeters wide and tapers to 3.5 millimeters at the thinnest stretch.