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Video Friday: Robot Collective Stays Alive Even When Parts Die

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IEEE Spectrum - Technical Title: Video Friday: Robot Collective Stays Alive Even When Parts Die Date: 2026-02-13 16:30 Source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-robot-collective <img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/robot-collective-crawls-under-a-bridge-of-rocks-with-glowing-lights-video-speed-increas…
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  • Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit a form of material intelligence more sophisticated than the well-studied whiskers of rats and mice, with potential to inspire new physically intelligent robotic sensing approaches

    80% confidence

  • Atlas research platform receives final testing push for full-body control and mobility limits as enterprise platform deploys

    80% confidence

  • Modular robots demonstrate a tradeoff where the number of modules dictates both possible functions and odds of failure, but this trend can be reversed by exploiting redundant resources and sharing them locally to improve reliability with increased module count

    80% confidence

  • Mentee Robotics designs humanoid robots with deep vertical integration across hardware, embedded software, and AI to close the Sim2Real gap and enable continuous, around-the-clock operation in real-world industrial environments

    80% confidence

  • FastUMI Pro is designed to power a truly end-to-end closed loop for embodied intelligence, transforming real-world data into genuine robotic capability

    80% confidence

  • Rotational multimaterial 3D printing innovation could someday accelerate production of components for surgical robotics and assistive devices, advancing medical technology

    80% confidence

  • The quiet-rotor electric rotorcraft achieves noise level around 74 dBA in hover at 50 feet, making it probably the quietest rotorcraft at this scale

    80% confidence

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Agentic AI Goes Operational: Platform Governance, Local Silicon, and the Physical-AI Data Race
In mid-to-late October 2026, enterprise vendors (Cisco, Fortinet, ServiceNow, Intuit, Salesforce/Braze, Adobe) shipped agent governance, AI security and AI-driven customer engagement products, while a parallel hardware wave (NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops, ASUS, Apple's iPad mini, Microsoft's hybrid local/cloud Windows) pushed AI onto local devices. A third strand, physical AI (Encord, Harvest Praxis, Hesai), argues that real-world sensor data and cheaper edge chips are the next bottleneck. The common thread is the shift from AI experimentation to governed, scaled deployment, with Salesforce's Braze acquisition showing consolidation and fintech players like Intuit tying AI to trusted financial data. The facts support a broad industry theme but contain little direct finance or regulatory evidence, so the AI-finance angle is thin.
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EPKINLY Regulatory-Clinical Success Cascade
High probability of expanded label indications, additional combination approvals, and competitive positioning strength in follicular lymphoma market. Predicts positive commercial uptake and potential accelerated review for related indications.
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Ford Motor Company
Both facts give cash for Ford Motor Company at the same point in time (2025-12-31; FY 2025 year-end and Q4 2025 year-end are the same date). Both are labelled USD, but the values are 23,356,000,000 and 23.356, which cannot both be true in USD. The two numbers agree once the second is read as billions (23.356 bn = 23,356,000,000), so the economic content is consistent and the conflict is a unit/scale error in the Q4 2025 record. The period is not the reason for the conflict: a Q4 and an FY figure at the same year-end date should match.
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