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…
How did the company beat the significantly better-known Unitree (which…
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, …
Takashi Ishiuchi, a reproductive biologist at the University of Yamana…
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…
Speakers: Amy Nordrum, Executive Editor, Operations, and Eileen Guo, S…
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…
A recent Washington Post investigation found 46 cases in which officer…
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.
The heat isn’t over yet, but some scientists are already looking ahead…
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.