Italian engineers in Genoa just showed a humanoid that went from concept sketch to walking, sensing machine in half a year. Generative Bionics revealed Gene.01 at AMD’s Advancing AI event in San Francisco, presenting it as a ready platform rather than a distant laboratory project. The same team that showed a concept at CES in January delivered a complete, sensor-equipped robot by July.
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Monterey Car Week has a way of drawing out machines most people will never see in person. Next month one of the rarest modern McLarens will roll into RM Sotheby’s auction, and collectors already know the numbers. Lanzante built just four of these. This is the third. British specialist Lanzante took a track-only P1 GTR and turned it into something that can drive on public roads while looking like a 1997 F1 GT Longtail.
Rob Scallon stands in a room that refuses to answer him. No bounce. No soft wash of air against walls. Just the immediate disappearance of every note, clap, and spoken word. He is inside one of Shure’s anechoic chambers in Niles, Illinois, a facility built so microphones can be measured without a single reflection getting in the way. Within minutes of the heavy door sealing shut, he reports feeling mildly nauseous. The sensation never fully leaves him for the rest of the visit.
SpaceX sent its towering Starship stack skyward from Starbase in South Texas late on July 24, 2026, and brought the upper stage home in a way no previous flight had managed. The vehicle climbed on 33 Raptor engines, released a fresh batch of Starlink satellites, restarted an engine in space, and then settled gently onto the waves of the Indian Ocean still in one piece. For a program that has spent years watching its ships break apart or vanish in fireballs, that quiet float marked a real turning point.
Jamie wanted a machine that would make her write. Not a laptop full of open tabs and alerts. Not a phone that vibrates every few minutes. She wanted something that felt like it belonged on a desk from another decade, yet still saved every word without paper or ink ribbons. So she spent weeks designing and building one herself. The result sits somewhere between a classic typewriter and a modern writing deck, finished in green paint with rounded keys and a screen that rises on command.