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A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed the Embodied Sensorimotor Robotic Arm (EmArm), which embeds a soft optical tactile skin into a robotic skeleton and integrates it with a real-time decision-making algorithm. According to the team, EmArm provides whole-arm tactile sensing across the upper and lower arms, can distinguish touches such as tickling and patting, respond in real time, and avoid obstacles through tactile feedback.

Qcells has partnered with Aluko Group to supply U.S.-made aluminum frames from Tennessee for its residential solar panel lineup, aiming to streamline qualification for domestic content bonuses under increasing IRA thresholds.

Brazil's new curtailment rules offer greater regulatory certainty for solar developers, but uncertainty over future generation cuts and financial risks continues to weigh on investment. Industry experts expect new utility-scale solar projects to remain limited despite progress on compensation and curtailment allocation.

Women in Solar+ Europe (WiSEu), contributing to SolarPower Europe's EU Solar Jobs Report 2026, draws on a survey across its network in 22 European countries. It reports that purpose attracts women to the solar industry, while everyday experiences of leadership, opportunity and workplace culture shape whether they stay and build careers in it.

France plans to ease grid connection rules for solar-plus-storage projects with installed capacity up to 25 MW, provided grid injection does not exceed 17 MW. The measure is part of a broader government initiative to accelerate electrification and improve electricity demand flexibility.

A six-year study of a 12 MW solar plant in Algeria found an average performance ratio of 82.6% and annual electricity generation between 19.83 and 21.41 GWh. Performance declined significantly in 2020 due to COVID-19-related maintenance restrictions, underscoring the importance of regular cleaning and upkeep.

A Dutch regulator says EU cybersecurity rules should target companies by how much power they can control remotely rather than by size, and wants home energy devices certified independently under the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).

Google reports that Gemini 4 Argon reduced its pick-and-place time from 58.9 seconds to 17.4 seconds. This improvement was achieved across three attempts on a 6-DoF robot arm, with the system analyzing its own logs and camera footage.

Linux users report that games freeze permanently within seconds of an alt-tab, and that switching off Steam's in-game overlay stops the problem. Valve has merged four reports into two issues on its own trackers, issue 13709 and issue 13682, and has posted triage but no diagnosis in either.

According to the report, U.S. generation from small-scale or rooftop solar photovoltaic systems (under 1 megawatt of capacity) is estimated to have risen from 18,812 GWh to 92,979 GWh over the last decade, which the headline describes as quadrupling. The four states with the highest small-scale solar generation were named as California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida; the excerpt's regional description is incomplete.

Stanford scientists have developed a new microscope that reveals the inner workings of living cells in real time without the fluorescent labels that can interfere with observations. The breakthrough could provide new insights into cancer, infectious diseases and how drugs interact with cells.

Apple ran Meta's Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter model with 42 billion parameters active at a time, across four Mac Studios and measured more than 36 tokens per second. Apple's machine learning researchers said the model "cannot fit on a single machine", with figures based on four M5 Ultra machines splitting it by width; the context is truncated.

Transport & Environment (T&E) has labelled the French and German governments' agreement to loosen the EU's car CO₂ standards and IAA requirements a 'historic mistake', arguing it puts Europe's position in the global EV and battery race in jeopardy.

Ben Waters explains why opportunity charging is becoming essential for keeping autonomous robot fleets moving, scalable, and operationally efficient as fleets scale. The article was published by The Robot Report.

Meta says its AI glasses can now recognise eight artworks inside Milan's Pinacoteca di Brera and play the museum's own spoken description of each one through the frames. The pilot, called "Sensing Art", is a tour a visitor books rather than a demo on a stage.

Valve closed a Linux bug report stating that the current point release of ALVR is not supportable on SteamVR's side. The release in question is ALVR v20.14.1, which is 15 months old.

Valve stated that the Linux Steam client is now a 64-bit application running inside a Steam Runtime container. However, a requirements document added by a Valve engineer later specified that '64-bit-only x86_64 systems are not supported.'