🚨 China surpasses the world in robot installations!

According to the latest report by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), China installed nearly 300,000 industrial robots in 2024 — more than the rest of the world combined. 🤖🌏

🔹 Total operational robots in China now exceed 2,027,000 units.
🔹 China’s share of global installations has reached 54%.
🔹 It took just 3 years for China to go from 1 million to 2 million robots on its factory floors.
🔹 For comparison: the U.S. installed about 34,000 robots in 2024, while Japan added around 44,000.

China’s rapid automation is reshaping global manufacturing and accelerating the future of smart factories.

#robotics #China #automation #industry40 #science

🚨 Magnetic Storms Linked to Heart Attacks — Especially in Women

The Earth is shielded by its magnetosphere, which constantly shifts in response to solar activity. When powerful disturbances occur — known as geomagnetic storms — they don’t just disrupt satellites and power grids, but also our bodies.

A team of Brazilian researchers analyzed hospital data on myocardial infarction (heart attacks) over several years, comparing the frequency of cases and deaths during periods of strong geomagnetic activity with calm days.

🔬 Their findings:
• Using the planetary K-index to track geomagnetic storms, the scientists discovered a clear trend:
• Women showed a significant increase in both hospitalizations and mortality during solar storm days.
• Men, despite making up the majority of patients overall, showed no comparable effect.

💡 Why does this happen?
The heart relies on finely tuned electrical impulses to maintain rhythm. Intense external magnetic fields may interfere with this system, especially in people with pre-existing cardiovascular issues, triggering critical events.

🌍 This research suggests that space weather isn’t just a cosmic curiosity — it may directly affect human health.

#Science #SpaceWeather #Medicine #SolarStorms

🚀 Jeff Bezos: AI Data Centers Will Move to Space

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos believes that within the next 10–20 years, massive data centers for training AI models will be built in outer space.

Why? 🌌
In space, there’s unlimited solar energy available 24/7, no atmospheric interference, and natural cooling conditions — perfect for large-scale computing infrastructure.

Bezos envisions space as the next extension of Earth’s industrial and technological ecosystem, where humanity can build, power, and scale its most energy-intensive systems without harming the planet.

#AI #Space #Bezos #FutureTech #Science

☀️ A giant solar prominence has just broken away from the Sun — one of the largest this year, according to Russia’s Space Research Institute (IKI RAS).

This time, we got lucky. Scientists say that if it had happened a day later, Earth would have been grazed by the edge of the blast — and if two days later, we’d have taken a direct hit.

Fortunately, the plasma cloud is heading safely into deep space, missing all planets.

Still, the spectacle was breathtaking — a fiery arch of superheated plasma tens of thousands of kilometers high, briefly suspended above the solar surface before being hurled away into the void.

#Space #Sun #SolarStorm #Science

🤖 A robot that feels touch with its whole body

German Aerospace Center (DLR) engineers have created SARA — a robot that can sense touch across its entire surface — without any external tactile skin or sensors.

How it works:
SARA uses only the force sensors built into its joints plus clever math.
When a person touches the robot’s body, the system calculates where and how strongly it was touched by analyzing subtle mechanical changes in the joints.

What it can do:
✍️ Recognize letters or numbers traced on its body — with 90–95% accuracy
🔘 Create “virtual buttons” anywhere — place a sticky note and the robot will remember that spot
🎚 Adjust settings — swipe across its arm like a slider to change speed or grip strength

Why it matters:
Traditional tactile robots rely on expensive, fragile “electronic skin.”
SARA skips that — turning its entire body into an interactive surface, like a smartphone screen.

Limitations:
Currently it can detect only two simultaneous touches, and sensitivity is lower than dedicated sensors.
But for most human–robot collaboration tasks, this minimalist design is a breakthrough.

#robotics #AI #DLR #innovation #HRI #sensors

🚀 The first color footage of a FUSION REACTOR in action!

Tokamak Energy has just released incredible high-speed video — shot at 16,000 frames per second — showing the birth of plasma inside their fusion reactor.

In the clip, you can see a mesmerizing bright pink glow at the plasma’s edge — that’s light emitted as the superheated gas interacts with the reactor walls. The core itself remains invisible, simply because it’s millions of degrees hot — far beyond what any camera can capture.

This is what the future of clean, limitless energy looks like — contained in a magnetic field.

🎥 Full video here: watch the fusion magic

#fusion #energy #tokamak #plasma #science

Cyberpunk remote work, IRL.

Operators in the Philippines—paid about $250/month—are remotely piloting shelf-stocking robots in Japanese stores.
Today it’s teleoperation; tomorrow it’s training data. The real question: how fast until the robots learn enough to cut humans out of the loop?

#robots #teleoperation #retailtech #AI #futureofwork #science

🚀 Starcloud wants a 4-km, 5-GW GPU data center… in space

NVIDIA-backed startup Starcloud is about to put a data-center-class GPU in orbit: their Starcloud-1 satellite launches in November with an NVIDIA H100 onboard — roughly 100× more GPU compute than any prior space system. The 60-kg, fridge-sized sat is a first step toward orbital GPU clouds.

Why it matters: today, satellites downlink raw data to Earth for processing. With an H100 upstairs, AI runs where data is born — cutting response times from hours to minutes. That’s big for sensors like SAR, which can spit out ~10 GB/s; instead of shipping it all home, the model can filter, segment, and alert in orbit.

Power & cooling: sunlight is (nearly) constant in orbit and space is an “infinite heat sink” via radiators, so no water-hungry chillers. Starcloud’s roadmap sketches a ~5 GW orbital data center fed by solar + radiator panels about 4 km × 4 km. Future birds aim to integrate Blackwell GPUs for up to 10× more performance versus Hopper.

Biz timeline: Crusoe (the “energy-first” cloud) plans to deploy capacity on Starcloud’s platform from 2026–27. Starcloud projects ~10× lower energy cost than Earth data centers long-term. A white paper even models a 40 MW cluster with a ~$8.2M launch cost — if Starship-class launch prices fall to ~$30/kg (a big if).

CEO Philip Johnston’s bet: within 10 years, most new data centers get built in space. Gamers, rejoice — astronauts might finally run DOOM at ultra.

#Starcloud #H100 #Blackwell #OrbitalCompute #SpaceDatacenter #SAR #EdgeAI
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AI-powered parking never looked like this in my head.

A 35-kg Unitree G1 running BAAI’s THOR whole-body control just dragged a 1.4-ton car — ~40× its own weight. It’s a stunt, but it shows how fast balance, traction, and whole-body control are improving. Next stop: factory logistics, recovery, and precision vehicle positioning.

#Unitree #BAAI #THOR #Robotics #AI #Humanoids
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Whether we expect a major nuclear war or not, here is a curious set of U.S. actions in deploying strategic weapons:


First, the White House has consistently withdrawn from long-standing arms reduction and limitation treaties. In 2002—from the ABM Treaty; in 2019—from the INF Treaty; in 2020—from the Open Skies Treaty. A potential U.S. refusal to maintain the moratorium on nuclear testing could thus be a logical next step in Washington’s dismantling of the global strategic stability system.
Second, the U.S. is accelerating the modernization of its strategic offensive weapons. Work is underway on the new Sentinel ICBM with a new nuclear warhead and a range of 13,000 km. Development continues on the Columbia-class strategic nuclear submarine to replace the Ohio-class. The new B-21 Raider heavy bomber is in progress. A nuclear-armed cruise missile is under development, and so on. Plans include reactivating 56 launchers on 14 Ohio-class submarines—note: full reactivation—with complete loading of Trident II ballistic missiles. Preparatory measures are in place to reconvert 30 B-52H strategic bombers back into nuclear weapon carriers.
Third, the Americans have begun implementing the “Golden Dome” program, which envisions both missile defense interception and pre-launch strikes against Russian and Chinese missiles.
Fourth, by the end of this year, the U.S. Army plans to adopt the new Dark Eagle intermediate-range missile system with hypersonic missiles capable of a 5,500 km range. Future deployment is foreseen in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Flight time from Germany—where this complex is planned for placement—to targets in central Russia would be about six to seven minutes.
Fifth, Washington regularly conducts exercises of its strategic offensive forces. The latest, Global Thunder 2025—which practiced, I emphasize, preemptive nuclear missile strikes on Russian territory—took place in October of this year.
Overall, this is a unified complex of measures, including potential U.S. plans for nuclear tests, which significantly heighten the military threat level to Russia.

“Feels like the uncanny valley just got crossed.”

Prompt: “Photorealistic interview with an 8-year-old child speaking sadly. The child knows they are AI-generated, feels sorrow about it, and answers the interviewer’s question — ‘What is it like to be an AI?’ — wisely yet child-like. Dark-blue background.”

Result: natural eye contact, micro-movements, believable pacing; emotion reads instantly.
Takeaway: the uncanny-valley threshold in Gen-Video has shifted.

Stack to try: Sora 2, Kling, Nano Banana, Krea, Artlist, Resolve.

#AI #GenerativeVideo #UncannyValley #PromptEngineering

Earth, Jupiter, and Venus as seen from Mars

🤖 When EngineAI’s T800 humanoid went viral, a lot of people were sure the video was just CGI.

So the CEO, Zhao Tongyang, literally stepped into the ring with his own robot — and let it kick him. 🦶

No VFX, no compositing, no AI post-processing — just a full-size humanoid, real-time control, and a CEO who’s very confident in his product. 📷

As humanoids get more powerful (high joint torque, fast reaction times, active cooling), trust and safety are becoming just as important as raw specs. EngineAI decided to demonstrate that trust the hard way.

#robotics #humanoid #AI #China

Imagine your liver biopsy being scored not by a panel of pathologists, but by an AI that regulators officially treat as a “lab tool” for drug trials. That just became real.

PathAI has announced that its AIM-MASH AI Assist system is the first AI-powered pathology tool ever qualified by the US FDA (and already by the European Medicines Agency) for use in clinical trials of MASH — a common, fatty liver disease that can progress to cirrhosis and cancer. Instead of three experts arguing over how bad the damage looks on a slide, the model helps a single pathologist assign consistent scores.

Why this matters: drug trials for liver disease live and die on tiny changes in biopsy scores. Human reads are slow, expensive and notoriously variable. An AI that gives the same answer every time for the same slide can make trials faster, cheaper and statistically cleaner — which may mean more liver drugs actually making it to market.

Important caveat: this AI is cleared only as a biomarker tool for trials, not for diagnosing individual patients. But if regulators are starting to trust models as part of the evidence pipeline, how long until similar systems sit inside routine hospital workflows?

Would you be comfortable knowing an AI scored your tissue sample in a drug trial? Should this kind of model stay in research, or gradually move into everyday diagnostics?

Full story from PathAI’s press release: https://www.pathai.com/news/pathais-aim-mash-ai-assist-becomes-first-ai-powered-pathology-tool-to-receive-fda-qualification-for-mash-clinical-trials

#AI #medicine #pathology #liverdisease #clinicaltrials #FDA #biotech

This is Guizhou Province, China — mountains completely covered with solar panels.

The scale is so massive that drones don’t have enough battery to capture the entire mountain range in a single flight. Just endless ridges of photovoltaics stretching to the horizon.

By turning rugged, hard-to-use terrain into energy infrastructure, China is effectively farming millions of kilowatt-hours every month.

Guizhou has become a symbol of China’s renewable strategy:
• use land with low alternative economic value
• build at industrial scale, not pilot projects
• integrate renewables directly into national energy planning

While others debate whether such transitions are realistic, China simply builds them.

The greenest country?
At the very least — the most scalable one.

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🧠🦠 Your gut may be shaping your mind more than you think

A new peer-reviewed study adds to the growing evidence that the gut microbiome plays a direct role in brain function, behavior, and mental health — far beyond digestion.

Researchers show that changes in gut bacteria can influence:
• 🧩 cognitive performance
• 😌 stress and anxiety levels
• 🧠 neuroinflammation and brain signaling
• 🔄 the gut–brain communication loop via immune and neural pathways

What’s especially striking is that the effects are bidirectional:
your mental state alters the microbiome, and the microbiome, in turn, alters your mental state.

This reinforces a major shift in neuroscience and medicine:

The brain is not an isolated organ — it’s deeply integrated with the immune system, metabolism, and trillions of microbes living inside us.

Implications range from mental health treatments to personalized nutrition, probiotics, and even preventive psychiatry.

📄 Source (open access):
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19490976.2025.2599562