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Dubai just put robot dogs on the front lines of firefighting
These quadrupeds charge into 500ยฐC+ infernos, toxic smoke & collapsing structures with 60 m water cannons blasting 2,400 L/min. AI locks on hotspots, humans stay safe.
Create apps shaped exactly around your specific needs and context.
That's what Essential Apps are.
You describe what you need. AI builds it. It appears on your phone's home screen, ready to use.
One billion apps for one billion people.
Beta starts today on Nothing Playground.
This drone becomes a flying manipulator! ๐ฅ
Researchers at the The University of Tokyo developed this aerial robot.
Built with four pairs of ducted fans linked by actuated joints, Dragon can reshape itself mid-flight.
This allows it to grasp objects and perform tasks typically reserved for ground-based manipulators. Each segment has dual rotors, and its navigation stack calculates the most efficient shape for each object.
Total payload? More than 3 kilograms.
P.S. To increase Dragon's battery life, they consider allowing it to walk on the ground.
I built a browser entirely powered by Nano Banana ๐
It generates each website based only on the URL.
You can even navigate to other links.
A truly new kind of internet, generated on the fly, and it's super fun.
This is MarsWalker
Robot vacuum that climbs stairs.
Its tracked base grips steps while 4 articulated arms probe the next riser, lift the nose, and keep the center of mass stable to avoid tipping on climbs or descents.
Field AI raised $405M in funding and introduced Field Foundation Models
These models are designed to grapple with uncertainties and the physical constraints of the real world, enabling safe robot behaviors when navigating in new environments
@ScienceXnews@elonmusk Massive infrastructure project, long safety and regulation approvals, hundreds of millions of private dollars invested, changes of direction, international projects picking up and stopping, and no clear line to approvals/commercialization.