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AI & Robots
How will your life—and the world around you—change?
From artificial intelligence to machines that move through the real world: a visual journey into the technology reshaping work, everyday life and the possibilities ahead.
Clear explanations. Rich illustrations. Big questions about what comes next.
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The Radio Signal Hidden Inside Static
A Stanford prototype turns unavoidable thermal noise into a kilobit-speed wireless link without generating a conventional carrier.
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Can Light Turn Stored Heat Back Into Electricity?
Thermophotovoltaic cells can harvest light from white-hot materials. The mechanism could help turn stored grid electricity back into power without a turbine.
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A QR Code Plans for Missing Pieces
QR codes carry mathematical redundancy that can reconstruct damaged information, but their correction percentages do not describe a guaranteed missing area.
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A Drone Can Plan Around What It Cannot Predict
A new planner builds time-aware safety corridors around unseen, moving obstacles—then keeps recalculating the route onboard.
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Can a City Save Summer Heat for Winter?
Seasonal thermal stores can bank warmth in water, aquifers or rock—but long-term maintenance matters as much as heat recovery.
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From Folding a Towel to Running a Home: The Robot's Next Test
Household robots are demonstrating more useful skills. The difficult next step is joining them into dependable routines in a home that keeps changing.
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Why AI Progress Now Happens Between Your Questions
The pace of AI is about more than new models. Agents are changing how work gets done—and, inside AI labs, how the next advances are investigated.
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Can an AI Explore Freely and Still Obey a Hard Rule?
Imagine asking an AI to plan a robot's movement through a crowded room. A route that is almost safe is not enough. How can a creative generator obey a rule that cannot be broken?
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Teaching Yeast to Use a Mixed Sugar Menu
A fermentation tank can contain plenty of food and still have a bottleneck: the yeast may consume some sugars more readily than others.
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When Waste Plastic Becomes a Structural Shape
Picture a pile of discarded plastic. Now picture the triangular skeleton of a bridge. The interesting step between them is geometry.
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PubMed Is Testing a Map of Connected Research
One paper can answer a question and hide the next one. A new PubMed pilot aims to make neighbouring research easier to find.
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A Battery Designed to Disappear After Its Job
A swallowed medical sensor needs power. Researchers are testing a battery whose useful life ends before its material life does.
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A Robot Can Do the Task. Can It Do the Job?
Anthropic’s new analysis draws a revealing line between technical capability and affordable automation.
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When Does a Chatbot Become an Agent?
The useful distinction is what happens after the answer.
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From Chatbots to AI Agents
The next step is not simply a better answer. It is a system that can work through a task.
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The Energy Problem Nobody Sees
Making electricity is only part of the job. It also has to arrive where and when it is needed.
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Can a robot learn just by watching?
The surprising connection between language, vision and action.
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