This DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic “Air-Muscles” Instead of Motors
In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like carrying luggage.…
He was working at a startup called Intergalactic Robots, but he couldn…
To help with his project, he organized a weekly get-together of a doze…
Defining Autonomy for Wellness Robots in Senior Care
An examination of how socially assistive wellness robots could support the seven dimensions of senior wellness, and how a framework can measure their autonomy.…
What Attendees will LearnWhy the senior care crisis exceeds incrementa…
Demographic pressure, workforce shortages, and a daily wellness-progra…
On 19 April 2026, the Honor Lightning humanoid robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by 7 minutes and the best robot time from 2025 by almost 2 hours.…
How did Honor do it?
Is there some magical technology or technique that unlocked this perfo…
Cloning could be used to save species—or make human “organ sacks”
This week I spoke to scientists who have found a way to turn male mouse embryos female.They’ve developed a CRISPR-based approach to essentially cut out the Y chromosome.…
It allowed them to create female clones of male mice.
That’s right: female animals that are genetically identical to males, …
Roundtables: Inside the “Censorship-Industrial Complex” Idea Shaping US Policy
Listen to the session or watch below The “censorship-industrial complex” is an idea that a network of government, tech, and research groups is collaborating to suppress conservative online speech.…
This was fodder for the right-wing information sphere for years—then i…
Watch a conversation exploring how it started, where it’s going, and w…
Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed
Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to 750 output tokens per second.
Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash
The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, in an apparent effort to quell a growing backlash and win back contracts lost amid concerns about mass surveillance and police abuse.…
Several changes aim directly at a problem that has made recent headlin…
Flock’s 120,000 cameras form a nationwide network that police departme…
What’s behind this summer’s heat, and why 2027 could be worse
This summer has been a scorcher for much of the Northern Hemisphere.June and July marked the hottest two-month stretch in Europe since record-keeping began.…
The contiguous US endured its hottest month on record in July.
South Korea saw its highest-ever recorded temperature.
How RingCentral builds AI-native work from engineering to ops
See how RingCentral uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to accelerate AI product development and centralize operational intelligence across engineering and operations.
How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers
Next month, on September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators Under 35, recognizing 35 young people from around the world who are doing groundbreaking scientific work and building clever technical fixes for sticky problems.…
By finding the top young innovators globally and learning what they’re…
As a newsroom, we also use this exercise to help us spot rising talent…