AI-Powered weed control! 🌱 The LaserWeeder machine from Carbon... Robotics has captured the imagination of American farmers. This technology uses AI system to identify weeds in crops and zap them with precision thermal bursts from lasers. Bit of facts about the cool robot: → The machine can remove weeds from over 40 crops and can also be used for thinning crops. → It can operate in virtually all weather conditions, with millimeter accuracy at all times, and can work through the night thanks to its built-in lighting system. → High-resolution cameras and computer machine learning enable it to distinguish weeds from crops in milliseconds. → The LaserWeeder can replace about 70 workers on farms where manual weeding is used, and can weed up to four acres per hour. What other applications can we expect to see in the future in farming applications? Btw. I believe farming robots are A HUGE THING in robotics! 🔥 ~~ ♻ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

FARMERS GET A DEATH STAR FOR WEEDS Meet the... LaserWeeder - a 9,500-pound farm robot that spots weeds with AI cameras and nukes them with high-intensity lasers. AI vision scans every plant like a bouncer with night-vision goggles. Lasers fire at weeds, frying their cells without touching the crops. Autonomous drive means it works 24/7 while farmers sleep. Less Roundup, less labor, more yield. No chemical runoff into rivers, no farmhands breaking their backs in the sun. It’s farming meets sci-fi - a robot roaming fields at night, zapping intruders with invisible beams. Monsanto should probably be sweating. Source: Carbon Roboticsshow more

I love this from the New York Times about... how AI is being used in farming. Great examples like: cows can go to the robot milker when they need rather than on an uncomfortable schedule, lasers to kill weeds without pesticides, etc. Farmers have long adopted new technology early.show more

The future of agriculture lies in optimization. A system... like this costs very little: a drone with a camera and a computer vision system accurate enough to count and identify plants or diseases. It's so easy that anyone can make it at home for their own crops.show more

High school students built an autonomous ball-collecting robot! 🎾... A group of high school students built a robot that picks up balls and shoots them into a bin while moving without stopping, with impressive speed and accuracy. It combines mechanical design, sensors, and software making constant adjustments in real time while the robot is driving. When teenagers can build systems this sophisticated, the talent pipeline for the robotics industry is accelerating! ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

A robot mower on steroids! 💉 This mowing robot... can handle any bush. Literally. It's well-suited for work on PV farms, which are usually in remote areas and typically don't have permanent staff. I don't even need to mention the origin country. Chinese are cooking. This type of use case makes a lot of sense for robots. Someone mentioned that it's AI generated so, here's the OEM page: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

Hardware Production 🤝 Robotics But these motors... are CRAZY... synced: CNC motor synchronization helps make sure that different motors in a machine work together smoothly so that the machine can cut and shape materials with perfect accuracy. This is really important for making sure the machine does its job correctly. ✅ Helps the machine's parts move together perfectly, reducing mistakes and making things more accurate. ✅ Prevents the machine from getting damaged by keeping everything aligned. ✅ Allows the machine to work faster by making sure the motors are in sync. Synchronized CNC motors make sure machines work better, last longer, and create more precise products. —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:show more

It's the little things that make me excited about... the future. Many people are (rightfully) worried that AI and robotics will take their jobs. Yes, it's about money they need to live on, and solutions are needed. At the same time, it's often work that's strenuous and tedious. So we can be glad when robots take these tasks off our hands. Furthermore, robots don't need breaks, vacations, or sleep. They can be scaled quickly and are efficient. Globalization, and humanity as a whole, can therefore benefit massively from this increase in efficiency.show more

Unique footage has emerged showing remote control of interceptor... drones. The 190th Training Center of the SBS reportedly used a drone-interceptor to shoot down a Shahed UAV remotely, with the pilot located at a significant distance from the launch site. The system used was LITAVR, developed by FDrones. According to the company, an operator can control the interceptor from hundreds of kilometers away from the launch point. The F7 LITAVR is already a well-known and highly effective system. As a reminder, here are the technical details (this is all open-source information): Development of the system began in autumn 2024. It was successfully tested and officially adopted in summer 2025. Serial production and deliveries to the military started in autumn 2025. Maximum speed: 350 km/h Flight time: up to 15 minutes Equipped with two cameras: daytime and thermal imaging The officially stated tactical range is 36 km, though in practice it can reach up to 60 km and operate at altitudes of up to 9.5 km. The warhead (separately codified) weighs 500 g. Detonation can occur via kinetic impact, self-destruction upon contact with the target, or manual activation by the operator. The system uses inertial guidance without GPS and features automatic terminal guidance (“last mile” / target lock system). At present, it reportedly destroys hundreds of targets per week, including Shaheds, Gerberas, Molniyas, Orlans, Lancets, and others. What is fundamentally new? Until now, mobile air defense fire groups and frontline crews using interceptor drones required a qualified pilot on-site. It has now been successfully demonstrated that a different tactic is possible: pilots can operate from protected, remote locations. The only requirement is internet access at both the control center and the launch site. Ukraine’s defense sector continues to develop innovative solutions. 📹 Oleksii Kopytko/Facebookshow more

The trend in China is that more robotics companies... are opening stores where anyone can see and interact with the robots. It’s no longer necessary for everyone to contact a salesperson or visit the company’s office. BTW, I like the store designs of both EngineAI and AgiBot!show more

Qualia has been selected for the Google DeepMind Robotics... Program. We train embodied models that put a robot on a real manual task and make it work, on the floor, not in a demo. Foundation models and reasoning are where robotics is heading, and doing that work alongside DeepMind, who are pushing this frontier, is exactly where we want to be. If you are a company looking to see how a new generation of robots can help your manual tasks, contact us at [email protected] More soonshow more

It's 2030 and you are reviewing humanoid robots. A... Tesla. A Google. An Apple. An OpenAI. A Meta. A Figure. And a bunch of Chinese-made ones. Which one is best, and why? I think the Tesla understands the world much better. Why? There were eight Teslas around me on the freeway today. Start there. No other robot company has that data. But my robot is parked at the local high school twice a day. Its cameras see humans in all of our weirdness. How we move. Where we go. Where we walk. Who we talk with. What you are wearing. Whether your hair was combed this morning. That data will lead to robotics breakthroughs. Apple might keep up with its Vision Pro data, but it is too freaked out by the privacy implications of using said data. (On the front are six cameras and a couple of TOF -- Time Of Flight -- sensors that can see everything in your home in great detail). Google has a lot of data, for sure. All my: 1. Email. 2. Calendars. 3. Photos. 4. TV watching behavior. 5. Contacts. 6. Documents and spreadsheets. 7. Files. 8. Location data. So I expect Google's robot will be attractive to many. But how do you see the others shake out over the next five years? Make some guesses. But remember what an AI pioneer told me years ago about AI: it's all about the data. The Chinese ones have huge advantages: the Chinese have more data on their citizens, and many more citizens to boot AND they can make robots cheaper than we can. But now that you know OpenAI is building its own robot you have caught wind of what I've heard from many in San Francisco and Silicon Valley: that humanoid robots are the real prize of AI and will be highly profitable for those that can make them and find customers willing to buy them. Here, too, I learned long ago never to bet against Elon Musk. Will you?show more

A radical Muslim girl who once used to hate... Hindus 🧕 who used to consider Hindus as kafir that Arfa Ansari has now adopted the Hindu religion. Look at the change from 2021 to 2025 Truly educated and sensible Muslim girls need to understand this You are not farmland that you can be used in Islam the way crops are used Leave Islam and live a life of freedom, and stay happy 👏show more

World Models are the path for some AI Models... in the future. But how can we efficiently train these models to not only see the world the way humans do but to see the world in a new and unique way. By visualizing, what is normally sequenced audio patterns, we can derive much more insights. Here we see Paganini in a visual form that can than be described and transcribed into a World Model. We can observe connections in a manner that may not have been clear prior to the digitalization of music and sound in this way. The company with the most valuable potential in building a World Model is Tesla. Not that this type of visualization is being used, but that the mechanisms are in place, and the technology is in place for the company to thrive in this new form of AI.show more

Okay, this is seriously cool. A team from Google... DeepMind, including DeepMind Cofounder Shane Legg, published a paper "From AGI to ASI". In the paper, they include instructions for an AI agent to read along with you. You can open the paper in Codex's in-app browser and have GPT-5.5 read it with you and explain all the concepts. This is the future. AI agents will be part of the target audience, and help us to understand anything we want.show more

This is getting unreal. "A huge humanoid robotics wave... is about to arrive 👀" Chinese robotics company AheadForm just unveiled one of the world's most lifelike humanoid robots at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai. This AI-powered humanoid can hold natural conversations, maintain eye contact, blink, display realistic facial expressions and synchronize its speech with lifelike head and facial movements.show more

This afternoon I spent some time over at Parkesdale... Farms in Dover to discuss the impacts of the recent cold snap on our farming community. Food security is national security. As a state, we have a duty look out for those who do the work to put food on the table and assist them in hardening their crops for when disaster strikes. I’m grateful to the Parke family for showing me around today and for all of our farmers who are putting in long hours to combat this recent weather and protect our food supply.show more

🚨JUST IN: PEAQ OFFERS "FINANCE APPS FOR ROBOTS" DePIN-focused... blockchain peaq recently posted about 'Machine Money Markets' and the way in which they both... - Connect real robots with decentralized finance - Effectively turn them into revenue-generating financial assets Through PeaqOS ( the protocols and frameworks that allow for machine interoperability), robots and machines can carry out crucial blockchain-related tasks... ... like actively using DeFi protocols, or executing sophisticated financial strategies. But that's not all. PeaqOS further allows owners to tokenise their robots, not only making them tradable, but also allowing them to be used as collateral. Peaq also shared three clear and interesting examples of Machine Money Markets, already live in the ecosystem: (1) XMAQUINA - Structured as a DAO, XMAQUINA provides open access to some of the world's most promising early-stage robotics funding rounds. (2) Dualmint - A platform built for 'Initial Machine Offerings' where users purchase shares in machines and robots running on peaq itself. (3) Robot Money - An AI agent managed treasury, wherein machines contribute revenue which is then put to use generating additional yield.show more

The Gemini 2.0 era is here. And we’re excited... for you to start building with it. A quick rewind of what we just released ⏪ Gemini 2.0 Flash ⚡ comes with low latency and better performance. 🔵 You can now access an experimental version in G3mini on the web, while Gemini Advanced users can try Deep Research, a new AI research assistant. 🔵 Developers can begin building through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI 2.0 is also enabling new research prototypes of AI agents, including: 🔵 Project Astra, which explores future capabilities of a universal AI assistant 🔵 Project Mariner, which shows what’s possible for human-agent interaction, starting with your browser 🔵 Jules, an experimental AI-powered coding agent Finally, we’re exploring how 2.0 can be used in agents across domains — from navigating the virtual world of video games to applying its spatial reasoning capabilities to robotics. 🤖show more