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In a powerful shift from public safety to public health, Debbie Weir, the former CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), has joined the Cancer Vaccine Coalition (CVC) as Chief Impact Officer. Teaming up with breast cancer survivor and former NBC correspondent Kristen Dahlgren, Weir is now championing the next…
In a bold move that merges advanced robotics with emotional intelligence, Fourier Co. Ltd. has officially unveiled GR-3, the company’s first full-size “Care-bot” and the newest member of its cutting-edge GRx humanoid series. The unveiling marks a paradigm shift in robotics—from machines engineered purely for utility to emotionally responsive companions…
Google has announced a landmark initiative offering a free one-year subscription to its Gemini AI Pro plan for eligible students in India. The initiative, launched on July 15, is targeted at students aged 18 and above, and provides access to a suite of cutting-edge AI tools valued at ₹19,500. Registrations…
BigID, the leading platform in data security, privacy, compliance, and AI governance, today unveiled its Prompt-Based Classification, the industry’s first natural language interface for data discovery and classification. This innovation replaces rigid, code-heavy systems—enabling teams to simply describe what they’re looking for in plain English and let AI find and…
San Diego, CA — Evofem Biosciences Inc. (OTCID: EVFM), a women-led biotech innovator in sexual and reproductive health, proudly announced today that CEO Saundra Pelletier has received the prestigious Trailblazing Female Founders Award at the 2025 STIMULATE Conference. The award ceremony, hosted in Nashville, Tennessee, celebrates visionary women shaping the…
Why Are US Professionals Pretending to Use AI? The dark side of AI adoption: When fear outpaces learning In the high-stakes world of AI-driven workplaces, a silent trend is spreading—one in three US professionals is pretending to use AI tools to appear relevant. With job security increasingly tied to digital…
In a major milestone for the biopharmaceutical sector, Minaris Advanced Therapies has inaugurated its state-of-the-art GMP manufacturing facility in Taufkirchen, Munich, bolstering its role as a key global partner in the cell and gene therapy supply chain. This strategic expansion underscores Minaris’ commitment to supporting the growing demand for advanced…
Vision Meets Touch for Real-time Dexterity The recently released model ViTacFormer: Learning Cross‑Modal Representation for Visuo‑Tactile Dexterous Manipulation introduces a novel neural architecture that fuses high-resolution visual data and dense tactile sensing to enable agile, adaptive control of anthropomorphic robotic hands. Validated on real-world benchmarks, this architecture now achieves continuous,…
Advancing Human-to-Robot Motion Translation A groundbreaking paper titled “Robust and Expressive Humanoid Motion Retargeting via Optimization‑Based Rig Unification” has been officially accepted to IROS 2025, which will be held October 19–25 in Hangzhou, China. Led by Taemoon Jeong, the research—conducted in collaboration with NAVER LABS Corp. and Joohyung Kim at…
Musk Predicts Tesla Optimus Gen 3 Will Match Human Agility—Recent Optimus 2.5 Demo Sparks Excitement
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed that the upcoming Optimus Gen 3 humanoid robot will exhibit agility on par with an agile human—a bold assertion that has teeth thanks to recent video evidence from Optimus 2.5 demonstrating notable mobility gains ahead of the Gen 3 rollout Recent Demo Highlights: Optimus…