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Torc Robotics Announces Autonomous-Trucking Partnership at Mila
Insider Brief Torc Robotics is partnering with the Mila–Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute to expand its physical AI and autonomous trucking research through deeper collaboration with researchers and academic talent. As Mila’s only autonomous trucking partner, Torc will establish a presence within the institute’s Montreal ecosystem, including dedicated research space and access to students, faculty and…
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Hypershell Announces New Exoskeleton Lineup
Insider Brief Hypershell has launched its new AI-powered X Series exoskeleton lineup and introduced HyperLIFT, a field-testing initiative aimed at evaluating wearable robotics in real-world search and rescue operations. The new lineup uses the company’s HyperIntuition motion-control system, designed to make exoskeleton support feel more natural and responsive by adapting to user movement and terrain…
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IntBot and Certis Group Partner to Scale Enterprise Physical AI Across Singapore
Insider Brief IntBot and Certis have partnered to develop socially intelligent humanoid robot applications for enterprise and customer-facing environments, with pilot deployments planned in Singapore. The collaboration combines IntBot’s General Social Intelligence technology with Certis’ operational expertise in security, facilities management and frontline services to create humanoid concierge and assistance systems. The companies said the…
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AiM Medical Robotics and Siemens Healthineers to Collaborate on MRI-Guided Robotic Neurosurgery
Insider Brief AiM Medical Robotics is partnering with Siemens Healthineers to integrate its MRI-guided brain surgery robot with Siemens MRI systems, a move aimed at advancing image-guided neurosurgery and accelerating clinical deployment. The collaboration centers on a software interface designed to coordinate AiM’s robotic platform with Siemens MRI scanners, enabling tighter integration between imaging and…
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Stord Announces $250M Series F Funding Round, New Lab to Focus on Robotics, Physical AI to Challenge Amazon
Insider Brief Logistics startup Stord has raised $250 million in a Series F round at a $3 billion valuation and launched Stord Labs, a new Atlanta-based physical AI and robotics lab aimed at strengthening its challenge to Amazon’s fulfillment ecosystem. The funding round included Strike Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Franklin Templeton, Baillie Gifford, G…
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China’s Cornerstone Robotics Receives Approval in Europe for its Sentire Endoscopic Surgical System
Insider Brief Hong Kong-based surgical robotics company Cornerstone Robotics said its Sentire endoscopic surgical system received European Union CE certification under the Medical Device Regulation, opening access to European markets across specialties including general surgery, gynecology, thoracic procedures and urology. The robotic platform has been undergoing clinical investigation in the U.K. through a partnership with…
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ClickUp Cuts 22% of Staff and Deploys 3,000 AI Agents in Radical Bet on Productivity Over Headcount
ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans announced last week that the collaboration software company, last valued at $4 billion in 2021, had laid off twenty-two percent of its workforce — framing the cuts not as cost reduction but as a structural shift toward AI-driven operations. The company has deployed roughly 3,000 internal AI agents to handle complex tasks, with…
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Mitsubishi Electric and Chiba Institute of Technology to Co-Research and Develop Homegrown Physical AI
Insider Brief Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric signed a three-year agreement with the Chiba Institute of Technology to jointly develop physical AI technologies and autonomous robotics systems for applications ranging from manufacturing and infrastructure maintenance to future use cases such as logistics and disaster response. The partnership will establish a co-creation center focused on commercializing robotics systems…
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Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Warns AI Power Concentration Threatens Democracy and Human Dignity
Pope Leo XIV has published his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, calling for meaningful oversight of artificial intelligence and an end to the global AI arms race. The 200-page document was presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, signalling an unusual alignment between the Catholic Church and one of the leading voices in AI safety. The pope…
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The Pope just weighed in on AI
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Religious institutions don’t usually weigh in on AI. But the world’s largest just did — in nearly 42,000 words. Pope Leo XIV just published his first encyclical, one of the highest forms of papal teaching, drawing a direct line between…
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