In an interview, the CEO of San Francisco-based Minerva Humanoids said its semi-autonomous humanoid Roger is engineered to be the best possible avatar. The company takes a different approach from rivals pursuing general-purpose machines for a growing range of industrial tasks, starting with jobs where replacing the human body has an immediate and potentially life-saving purpose.
Even Realities' developer glossary lists the Even G2 smart glasses as having dual 576x288 monochrome green micro-LED displays, while an unofficial firmware patch set for the same glasses says the panels are 640x480 and that the smaller figure is what Even's own app platform hands developers. The report notes the discrepancy without resolving it.
As rapid humanoid robot development intensifies debate over how autonomous robots should ultimately become and whether removing people from the loop should be the goal, Plus One Robotics, which develops AI-powered robotic automation for logistics and parcel-handling operations, has long advocated a human-in-the-loop model. CEO Erik Nieves discusses this view in an interview titled 'Robots work, People rule'.
Anthropic has folded Project Glasswing and its Cyber Verification Program into a single programme with three access tiers and published its own measurements of what each tier stops. In its own test, the company says no blocks occurred when Claude Opus 5.5 ran through 50 trials of an offensive security evaluation in the Red Team Access tier.
According to STAT, a promising therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy is currently available to only a fortunate few patients. The article notes that exon-skipping drugs present a critical test for the FDA's goal of encouraging treatments for rare diseases.
Caribou Biosciences, a biotech co-founded by Jennifer Doudna, is shutting down after failing to raise the money necessary to fund a late-stage clinical trial of its off-the-shelf CAR-T therapy for lymphoma.
South African utility Eskom says it is removing registration-related costs for grid-connected solar installations up to 50 kVA in size until further notice, extending the fee waiver indefinitely.
Autonomous mobility company Avride and Sodexo Campus have announced an agreement to accelerate autonomous robot delivery across Sodexo Campus partner colleges and universities in the United States, pairing Avride's delivery technology with Sodexo Campus's national higher education footprint and creating a framework for participating campuses to move from interest to implementation.
AMD's security bulletin AMD-SB-6033 now lists a single CVE identifier for the flaw it describes in the ROCm Communication Collectives Library, with a revision entry dated 2026-10-06 noting a corrected CVE; the dropped number reportedly has no record.
TagEnergy has inaugurated a 240 MW/480 MWh battery storage facility in northeastern France, the country's largest operational BESS. The Tesla Megapack-based project provides grid-balancing services and is jointly owned by TagEnergy and Banque des Territoires.
After Chinese manufacturer Hithium launched its new 4 MWh sodium-ion BESS alongside a new 785Ah energy storage cell, senior product manager Leb Lan spoke with ESS News about the technology developments, where and when a sodium-ion BESS cabinet may better suit the market than LFP-based cell technology, and the path to bankability.
Radisson Hotel Group partnered with Accenture to build a ChatGPT plugin using OpenAI technology, helping travelers find, compare, and book hotels while planning their trips.
Chinese researchers developed a biomass lignin-based silver paste for heterojunction (HJT) solar cells that reduces reliance on petroleum-based resins. The optimized paste raised cell efficiency from 25.01% to 25.96% while improving printability, adhesion, and conductivity.
Nvidia says the path-traced hair added to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered runs only on GeForce RTX 50 cards and nothing older, and its published peak of up to 430 FPS at 1920x1080 assumes six-times multi frame generation is switched on. Both claims come from Nvidia's post.
Sodium-ion batteries are reportedly moving quickly from promising alternative to commercial reality in the U.S. energy storage market, but developers seeking scalable, bankable projects must still navigate federal domestic content policies, complex FEOC sourcing rules, and stringent UL 9540A safety testing.
As Australia's power grids transition from centralised fossil-based generation to decentralised renewable sources, system stability has become a critical challenge, and synchronous condensers have reportedly emerged as a key solution for ensuring grid reliability.
Researchers from the University of New South Wales report a new world efficiency record for large-scale perovskite solar submodules, achieving 23.5% power conversion efficiency on a 676 cm2 submodule.
Analysis in the new Solar Manufacturing USA Quarterly report argues that building quality domestic U.S. solar cell fabs matters more than technology choice today. It highlights steady progress in c-Si cell production during 2026, with strong upside to the 2027 forecast if existing lines ramp effectively and some 2027 plans are brought forward by a few months.