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How to minimize Wi-Fi roaming interruptions for autonomous mobile robots
Dedicated Wi-Fi scan architectures can improve robot mobility, reliability, and performance, says Synaptics. The post How to minimize Wi-Fi roaming interruptions for autonomous mobile robots appeared first on The Robot Report.
U.S. Regulators Drop $250 Travel Rule Plan, Crypto Language Too
Bitcoin Magazine U.S. Regulators Drop $250 Travel Rule Plan, Crypto Language Too FinCEN and the Federal Reserve formally withdrew a 2020 proposal that would have cut the cross-border funds-transfer threshold from $3,000 to $250 and spelled…
Binance to Close Accounts in Four EU Countries Dec. 31, Charging Idle Balances From Nov. 29
Bitcoin Magazine Binance to Close Accounts in Four EU Countries Dec. 31, Charging Idle Balances From Nov. 29 Binance told users in France, Spain, Italy and Poland to withdraw their crypto, with deposits blocked, accounts closing Dec. 31 and…
BlackRock: Security Fears Are Driving Bitcoin Whales Into IBIT
Bitcoin Magazine BlackRock: Security Fears Are Driving Bitcoin Whales Into IBIT BlackRock's Robbie Mitchnick told Barron's demand to swap directly held bitcoin for IBIT shares is at its highest yet, with "security and peace of mind" the top…
Bank of England pours cold water on AI productivity boom
Turns out throwing billions at GPUs doesn't automatically mean everyone gets more done
DigiCert admits 16-month security lapse exposed customer information
Botched server move left the door open, and DigiCert took months to notice someone had wandered in
Riot Platforms signs 910MW agreement with unnamed frontier AI lab
Capacity will be provided at Riot's Corsicana, Texas, data center
AI’s next infrastructure constraint
Data center expansions have long been represented in gigawatts, but measurements of terabits-second and microseconds are now entering the constraint conversation
AirTrunk named as operator behind data center project in Melbourne, Australia
Also behind project to develop Kurri Kurri smelter into data center
New Jersey Senate passes bill banning data center-related NDAs
Bill now goes to NJ Assembly
Can Agentic Robotics Solve Robotics’ Data Scaling Problem?
Robotics companies are investing heavily in the belief that data will solve the most difficult problems in robotics. Once AI systems have ingested enough data from human demonstrations, the thinking goes, robots will be able to perform the…
Strategy (MSTR) Adds 1,036 Bitcoin for $81.9 Million as Holdings Slip Below Cost
Bitcoin Magazine Strategy (MSTR) Adds 1,036 Bitcoin for $81.9 Million as Holdings Slip Below Cost Strategy bought 1,036 bitcoin last week for $81.9 million at an average of $79,012, lifting its stack to 850,364 BTC. This post Strategy (MSTR…
Bitcoin Price Drops Below $74,000 as Nvidia Probe and Regulation Fears Spark $1 Billion in Liquidations
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Drops Below $74,000 as Nvidia Probe and Regulation Fears Spark $1 Billion in Liquidations Bitcoin price fell to $73,477 overnight, its lowest since August, before bouncing to about $74,700 Monday morning as a…
Coinbase Wins Full Federal Trust Charter From OCC
Bitcoin Magazine Coinbase Wins Full Federal Trust Charter From OCC Coinbase's custody arm has completed its national trust bank charter with the OCC, upgrading April's conditional approval, but the license does not let it take deposits, mak…
Strive (ASST) Adds 29 Bitcoin for $2.2 Million as Weekly Buys Slow After Crossing 43,000
Bitcoin Magazine Strive (ASST) Adds 29 Bitcoin for $2.2 Million as Weekly Buys Slow After Crossing 43,000 Strive purchased 29 bitcoin from Oct. 31 to Nov. 6 at an average of $75,721, lifting holdings to 43,153 BTC while cash slipped to $487…
Kraken’s Dave Ripley: “That Was the Bear Market” and Bitcoin Is “On Our Way Out of It”
▶ Bitcoin Magazine Kraken’s Dave Ripley: “That Was the Bear Market” and Bitcoin Is “On Our Way Out of It” Kraken’s Dave Ripley explains why Bitcoin’s rebound past $80K hints the bear market is over, marking the softest macro pullback in the…
Britain's tech ambitions depend on minerals made in China, MPs warn
Committee can't confidently tick off any of government's ten supply security tests, with alternatives a decade away
CoreWeave signs multi-year cloud agreement with Wayve
Will provide compute capacity for autonomous vehicle company
Anthropic signs $3.4bn gas generator deal to support 1.7GW of data center power
Takes over OnePWR order of Caterpillar gen-sets
Nvidia looks to tap Brightspeed central offices for inference network - report
GPU company eyes legacy copper facilities for potential AI use
Q.ANT partners with Ionos for photonic computing pilot program
Successful applicants will be able to test and evaluate their AI models on Q.ANT’s photonic hardware
Datacenters, Elon Musk, and AI are all on the chopping block once Congress changes hands in 2027
Rage, rage against the dying of the right
Google's UK data center disruption caused by 'misconfiguration' of systems
Outage impacted Lloyds Bank, Revolut, Halifax, and delivery services DPD and Royal Mail
Microsoft winds down 2023 compute deal with Oracle
Newer contracts remain ongoing
UK’s Defra plans £4.8m data center contract renewal with Atos
While Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust awards Rackspace a colocation deal
Sponsored: EPG Modular Data Center marks topping-out of its US$120 million Malaysia FIZ Factory
The factory is expected to help the company coordinate production and assembly, respond more effectively to project schedules, and deliver with greater flexibility
Your data center may be halfway to waterless
How existing data centers can retrofit waterless cooling systems to reduce water consumption, recover waste heat, and improve cooling efficiency
Video Friday: Spot Plays to Show Its Whole-Body Manipulation
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
Churchill Capital XI shareholders approve $2.5B Agility Robotics humanoid SPAC
Deal is expected to provide approximately $465 million in gross capital as Agility expands deployments of its Digit humanoid with industrial customers. The post Churchill Capital XI shareholders approve $2.5B Agility Robotics humanoid SPAC…
How did Agility Robotics perform on its first day on the stock market?
Humanoid developer Agility Robotics ended its first day of trading on the Nasdaq just 2% above where it started, at $11.49. The post How did Agility Robotics perform on its first day on the stock market? appeared first on The Robot Report.
American Bitcoin’s $126M profit masks mining pressure as rivals turn to AI
The Eric Trump-backed miner reported $126 million in quarterly net income, largely driven by gains on its Bitcoin holdings, despite rising mining costs and shrinking margins.
Agility Robotics begins trading on Nasdaq
Agility Robotics becomes the first U.S.-based legged humanoid company to be publicly listed. The post Agility Robotics begins trading on Nasdaq appeared first on The Robot Report.
Chinese regulators block SoftBank’s $5.4B acquisition of ABB Robotics
Chinese authorities blocked the deal over concerns about robot data being transferred overseas and used to train AI models. The post Chinese regulators block SoftBank’s $5.4B acquisition of ABB Robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.
How Ambi Robotics helps its customers prepare for peak season
Ambi Robotics' co-founder and COO Stephen McKinley says the company is installing eight new systems at customer sites before peak season. The post How Ambi Robotics helps its customers prepare for peak season appeared first on The Robot Rep…
Luxor raises $16M from CMT Digital amid AI-Bitcoin miner convergence
Luxor aims to use the proceeds to scale its existing AI infrastructure business and expand its GPU sourcing services as global chip supply chains become constrained.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang starring in possible remake of The Spy Who Shagged Me
Admits to affair after company board opens probe into alleged contact with Chinese asset who bought GPUs in bulk
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits affair with alleged Chinese spy, board to investigate
Huang previously denied any relationship with Megaspeed exec
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Cyber, and promises this one stays within 'rules of engagement'
The latest bug hunting model 'avoided exploiting out-of-scope services over 99 percent of the time', claims House of Altman
'Stop dirty datacenters': Europe-wide protests planned demanding building moratorium
Curbing compute farms played a big part in recent US elections, now Euro activists are making their feelings known
ARM Institute consortium grows to more than 500 organizations
The ARM Institute reached the milestone as it prepares to host its 10th annual member meeting in Pittsburgh. The post ARM Institute consortium grows to more than 500 organizations appeared first on The Robot Report.
When datacenters lose power, generators should kick in. That didn’t happen for Google in London
October outage caused by bad PLC config exposed at a time maintenance work reduced resilience
What data centers need to consider when storing produced water
A possible alternative to portable supplies
Video Friday: Quadruped Robot Solves Giant Rubik’s Cube by Itself
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
Meta brings Conductor on board its model train
Agent orchestration startup gets its exit
Uber says it alone can make robotaxis pay, hours after Waymo quit its app
Oh, the irony, as platform players fight
Are Drone Ports the Next Annoying Tech Neighbor?
Rick and Marcia LeCompte loved to watch the Cooper’s hawks that frequented a sweet-gum tree in their yard in Baton Rouge, La. But this October, the hawks were gone. Marcia LeCompte is convinced the birds were scared away by the same flying…
Turn your home into a giant crane game with this open source robot
Who needs a humanoid to pick up after you when you can suspend an AI-powered claw from cables near your ceiling?
LiberAI Unveils Liber-0, a World Action Model That Grounds Human Experience in Robot Action
LiberAI introduces Liber-0, a world action model pretrained on more than 2.2 million hours of human experience to support zero-shot robot manipulation. The post LiberAI Unveils Liber-0, a World Action Model That Grounds Human Experience in…
How GlobalLogic helped Haystack Robotics build a UV disinfection robot
When designing the robot, GlobalLogic said it didn't want to just quickly design a robot for one use case or environment. The post How GlobalLogic helped Haystack Robotics build a UV disinfection robot appeared first on The Robot Report.
Robotics Startup Radar 2026
The 2026 Startup Radar presents innovative young companies developing hardware, software, and business models for the next generation of commercial robotics. The post Robotics Startup Radar 2026 appeared first on The Robot Report.
Video Friday: Do We Need Superhuman Humanoid Robots?
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes
This article is brought to you by Ollobot. From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to them. Most early co…
Video Friday: Meet Microduck
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
The Best Way to Explore Lunar Craters Is a Giant Robot Ball
On a good day, the rock quarry in central Texas is about 370,000 kilometers (230,000 miles) from the moon. But last February, when Rishi Jangale watched his 1.8-meter-wide, 150-kilogram inflatable robot roll effortlessly over rocks, gravel,…
Protecting Dynamic Industrial Robot Cable Carriers
This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp. In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional maneuvers under demanding operational cycles. However, as robot arms swivel, rotate,…
Video Friday: Digit Redecorates
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
This Robot Will Draw Your Blood Now
You sit down and put your arm in the cradle. You press a button. The machine takes it from there. A near-infrared light sweeps your inner elbow, hunting for a vein. A puff of alcohol hits your skin. An ultrasound probe glides across your ar…
Your Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies?
This article is brought to you by VicOne. A mobile robot slows for someone in a hallway. A collaborative arm eases its movement as a worker approaches. A humanoid pauses to let a person pass. Each response depends on information about the r…
Robots Are Learning to Feel
Dexterous manipulation remains one of the biggest barriers keeping robots from successfully tackling a wide range of everyday tasks. A sense of touch could be the key, but a lack of quality data has held back progress. This is now starting…
Fireworks says you’re wasting money on AI unless you’re using all the models
The case for managed inference, or automatically routing queries to the right model for the right job