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Robots are now shaping missile parts for Lockheed Martin, and the process looks like a digital blacksmith
A startup called Machina Labs has won a contract to make metal components for a US Air Force missile, using robotic arms that hammer sheet metal into shape the way a blacksmith would, only faster and guided by software.

Beyond Chatbots: World Models Are Teaching AI to Simulate Reality
The next big wave in AI is not about language. It is about teaching machines to understand how the physical world actually works, and the race is already on.

A Chinese robotics startup wants to build the 'recipe' that gives robots general intelligence
X Square Robot is open-sourcing an AI stack that aims to do for physical robots what large language models did for text. The approach is interesting. The independent evidence is still thin.

Train the Robot in a Fake World First, Then Send It Into the Real One
Before a robot ever touches a warehouse shelf or a factory floor, it can spend thousands of hours learning inside a computer-built copy of that environment. Here is why that matters.

The robotics programme that bans adults from touching the robots
Botball gives every student the same box of parts, teaches real coding languages at elementary-school age, and bars adults from the competition floor. Here is how it works and why girl participation is notably higher than the industry norm.