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SpaceX Starship 9th Flight Test Failed 3rd Time in a row. SpaceX later confirmed that the spacecraft experienced "a rapid unscheduled disassembly". It began spinning out of control about 30 minutes after its launch because of fuel leaks - meaning it broke up on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. "Our chances of making it all the way down to the Indian Ocean are pretty slim," a SpaceX commentator said during a livestream. There had been hopes of a successful mission, as the rocket had progressed beyond the point of explosive past failures in January and March. #spacex #starship

Sunbirds Nuclear Fusion Rocket mission to Titan, Mars & Psyche. Sunbird, a marvel of space propulsion innovation, powered by our state-of-the-art Dual Direct Fusion Drive (DDFD). With a remarkable specific impulse of 10,000–15,000 seconds and 2 MW of power, Sunbird is redefining what’s possible in space travel. The compact DDFD isn’t just an engine, it’s a leap forward, providing both thrust and electrical power for next-generation spacecraft. This breakthrough opens unprecedented possibilities to explore the solar system faster and with greater payloads than ever before. #sunbird #mars #spacetravel #nuclearfusion

Google Veo 3 Video Generation with Native Audio #google #googleio #googleio2025 #veo3 #gemini #ai

At WWDC26, a special screening of The Mandalorian and Grogu at Steve Jobs Theater. A pre-show presentation about the role of Apple technologies in the movie’s production, featuring a special guest, John Knoll, Executive Creative Director at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), and he serves as the Lead Visual Effects Supervisor for the Star Wars television series and the The Mandalorian and Grogu film. #wwdc26 #mandalorian #stevejobstheater #industriallightandmagic #johnknoll

Tim Cook at WWDC26 #wwdc26 #timcook #applepark

WWDC26 Reception in the inner ring DJ and party #wwdc26 #applepark

Food options at the WWDC26 Reception in the inner ring today #wwdc26 #applepark

Walker S2 Humanoid Robot Autonomous Battery Swap. Walker S2 : → Anthropomorphic Bipedal Locomotion → Autonomous hot-swappable battery system → Autonomous battery swapping, 24/7 continuous operations across dynamic industrial scenarios. #ubtech #walkers2 #autonomousbatteryswap #humanoid #robot more details at geekynews.org

AI Tools Used to Create Robot Film by WSJ. AI video tools like Google’s Veo 3 and Runway can now generate scenes that look almost indistinguishable from reality. WSJ’s Joanna Stern and Jarrard Cole put them to the test in a short film made almost entirely with AI. #googleveo3 #runway #elevenlabs #wsj

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Robot Film Created by WSJ with Google Veo 3 & Runway. AI video tools like Google’s Veo 3 and Runway can now generate scenes that look almost indistinguishable from reality. WSJ’s Joanna Stern and Jarrard Cole put them to the test in a short film made almost entirely with AI. #wsj #googleveo3 #ai #runway

New Google Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think Demo See how Deep Think uses its reasoning capabilities to tackle a challenging coding problem from the competitive coding platform ‘Codeforces’. #google #geminipro #deepthink #gemini

Google Demos $27,000 ALOHA 2 Robot Arms That Learn by Watching Humans #google #aloha2 #geminirobotics #robotarm #ai #robotics more details at geekynews.org

Unifying multimodal understanding and generation has shown impressive capabilities in cutting-edge proprietary systems. In this work, we introduce BAGEL, an open-source foun- dational model that natively supports multimodal understanding and generation. BAGEL is a unified, decoder-only model pretrained on trillions of tokens curated from large-scale interleaved text, image, video, and web data. When scaled with such diverse multimodal interleaved data, BAGEL exhibits emerging capabilities in complex multimodal reasoning. As a result, it significantly outperforms open-source unified models in both multimodal generation and understanding across standard benchmarks, while exhibiting advanced multimodal reasoning abilities such as free-form image manipulation, future frame prediction, 3D manipulation, and world navigation. In the hope of facilitating further opportunities for multimodal research, we share the key findings, pretraining details, data creation protocal, and release our code and checkpoints to the community. #bytedance #opensource #multimodal

The world's first robot fighting competition open on May 25 in Hangzhou City of east China's Zhejiang Province, highlighting humanoid robots equipped with cutting-edge technologies. Innovators have revealed that such events will help humanoid robots to understand and interact with the physical world, using human motion data to train the robots, which can enhance their flexibility and coordination. With the vast amount of data, robots can improve their generalization ability and replicate human movements with high precision. Reports have revealed that acquiring high-quality data for training robots through low-cost means is a key issue to be addressed before mass production. Data collection methods fall into three categories: remote control operation, motion capture, and large models. Motion capture can directly transfer human movements to humanoid robots, boasting high precision and comprehensive data collection advantages, making it possibly the most suitable data collection method for humanoid robots today. #robot #humanoid #robotfighting

Turn any shoot into a large scale production by combining Text to Image, References, Gen-4 and some simple tracking and color grading. #runway #texttoimage #ai

Blending robotics, art, and human interaction, Buoyant Choreographies offers a safe, playful, and ever-evolving experience that celebrates the poetic harmony between technology and people. This interactive art installation features buoyant bipedal robots—composed of helium balloons and articulated legs—moving freely within a shared playground in the exhibition space. Visitors are invited to engage with the robots via touch, gamepads, or directed airflow, influencing their motion, color-changing lights, and expressive behavior. #robot #buoyantchoreography

Boston Dynamics has updated its Orbit platform to integrate AI-powered visual inspections with its Spot robots, enabling them to identify safety hazards and equipment malfunctions that traditional monitoring systems often miss. This enhancement allows Spot robots to autonomously patrol industrial facilities, capturing and analyzing visual data to create a digital record of conditions, thereby addressing the limitations of human-only inspections, preserving institutional knowledge, and supporting proactive maintenance in an era of labor shortages. #bostondynamics #robot #robotdog #spotrobot #safetyinspector more details at geekynews.org

This is hybrid aerial-terrestrial quadruped robot called SPIDAR, which shows a unique grasping style in midair. This work has been presented in 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA). Delivery by aerial robots is an emerging topic in many scenarios, such as logistics, construction industry, and disaster response. Compared to the standard styles that deploy cage or sling, grasping style by gripper can handle objects in various shapes. A multi-limbed structure with distributed vectorable rotors called SPIDAR shows a higher potential to grasp large object in a three-dimensional manner. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on the advanced usage of the vectored thrust forces to achieve aerial grasping by this robot. First, a vectored thrust control to avoid the aerointerference on the underwind segments (e.g., grasped object) during flight is proposed. Then, an optimization-based planning method that utilizes redundant vectored thrust forces for firm grasping is developed. Finally, we demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed flight control and grasp planning by performing challenging grasping and transporting motion with a spherical object of which the diameter is 0.6m. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to achieve multi-finger-like grasping to carry a large object in midair. #flyingrobot #robotics #flyingcrane

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Tesla Optimus Claps Back at China’s Robot Dance Craze #tesla #optimusrobot #robot

Google Flow AI Film Making Tool for Video Creators #googleflow #ai #googleio #googleio2025

Google Projects Astra Demo at Google IO 2025 #googleio #googleio2025 #projectastra #gemini

BurgerBots Robotic Burger-Making in 27 seconds At BurgerBots, a groundbreaking new restaurant concept launched in Los Gatos, California, our technology is bringing industrial-grade consistency, efficiency, and reliability to this space. more details at geekynews.org #burgerbots #robot #robotics

LlamaCon 2025 with Mark Zuckerberg and Ali Ghodsi to discuss the importance of open source AI and share advice for founders building AI-powered applications.

Kawasaki CORLEO 4 Legged Robot with Hooves that Walks, Rides, Climbs #kawasaki #corleo #robot

UCLA Kid COSMO Robot With 28 moving joints (20 QDD actuators + 8 servo motors), Cosmo can walk with its two feet with a speed of up to 1 m/s (0.5 m/s nominal) and balance itself even when pushed. Coordinated with the motion of its head, fingers, arms and legs, Cosmo has a loud and expressive voice for effective interaction with humans. Cosmo speaks in canned phrases from the 90’s cartoon he originates from and his speech can be fully localized in any language. #ucla #kidcosmo #robot

BMW Figure 03 Fully Autonomous Robots. robots have been permanently deployed at BMW. The biggest hurdle? Software release validation (e.g. firmware/embedded sw from code to robots). It’s been a pain point, but we've been dialing in our release process to the commercial fleet #figure03 #robot #humanoid #bmw

China MagicBot: The Collaborative Humanoid Robot Supports Industrial Automation more details at geekynews.org #magicbot #humanoid #robot

In the video, OpenAI post-training researcher Manuka Stratta explains that Advanced Voice Mode will no longer interrupt during pauses. “The model interrupts you less, giving you more time to gather your thoughts without feeling pressured to fill every silence,” Stratta says. To demonstrate, Stratta engages in a conversation with ChatGPT, intentionally pausing in unusual places. The model adapts, waiting for her to finish before responding. #openai #chatgpt #advancedvoicemode more AI updates at geekynews.org