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Australian researchers have fitted giant burrowing cockroaches with electrodes, cameras, and spring-loaded syringes so the insects can be steered like tiny remote vehicles and deliver medicine in places no human or ordinary robot can reach.
Finished on a new Guangzhou line, XPENG’s Iron stood up and walked away on its own. No remote pilot. No stage crew. Just a completed humanoid leaving the factory floor the way a car leaves a paint booth, only this one used two legs. The company called the September 7 moment the first time an advanced general-purpose humanoid had been built on automated production lines and then departed under its own power.
Bose refreshed its everyday over-ears and left the price at $199 (was $359). QuietComfort Headphones now carry Immersive Audio, two-way USB-C sound, and smarter canceling that used to live on the more expensive Ultra models.
Huawei unveiled Mate XT 2 Ultimate Design in China today as its most expensive tri-fold yet, a phone that closes into a 6.5-inch slab and opens into a 10.2-inch tablet. Both wings now fold inward so the flexible panel sits fully protected when you snap it shut, a change from the mixed fold on the first Mate XT. Closed, the body measures 157.2 by 77 by 12.3 millimeters and weighs 299 grams. Fully spread, it stretches 219.2 millimeters wide and tapers to 3.5 millimeters at the thinnest stretch.
TECNO spent years treating phones like cameras that happen to make calls. CAMON Slim 5G doubles down on that idea and then flattens the whole package until it sits 6.39 millimeters thick, which is thin enough that a stack of two credit cards still looks bulky next to it. Official launch materials call the handset an art piece you hold in your palm, and the company is not being modest about the paint jobs. Five finishes arrived with the September 7, 2026 announcement: Burgundy Red in fiberglass with a matte velvet grain, Matisse Black with fluorescent green cut-out accents, Rebel Pink on a black body, Van Gogh Blue with a patterned gradient that tries to spin like the sky in The Starry Night, and Neo Mondrian, a photochromic white slab that only shows Piet Mondrian’s grid when ultraviolet light hits it.
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You can close the lid, grab the handle, and walk away with Wikipedia, street maps, a media library, and a local language model riding in one printed case. That is the brief Michael Klements set for himself when he wrapped Crosstalk Solutions’ free Project Nomad stack in a 3D-printed rack that behaves like a travel workstation. Nearby phones, tablets, and laptops join a private network and open a normal browser. Pages load from the box in the case, not from a tower somewhere else.
Fitness coaches still name Garmin Venu 3 when someone wants one watch for training, sleep, and a full workday without living next to a charger. The 45mm AMOLED model is currently on sale at $291.90 (was $449.99). A few years later it remains the easy recommendation, now often priced well under launch while Garmin’s newer Venu 4 asks $549 and spends some of that extra money on training tools most casual athletes never open.
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High school students on Hawaiʻi Island gave NGC 7253 a name that already feels heavier than its catalog number. Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola translates to “The Twin Spirits Pulling Together Creating Life,” and Gemini North on Maunakea recorded the pair with enough reach that pink knots of newborn stars sit in plain view. More than 200 million light-years out, in the stretch of Pegasus known in Hawaiian as Ka Lupe o Kawelo, two spiral galaxies tug at one another across about four million light-years of open space.
Lenovo rolled Project AeroBlade onto the IFA Berlin floor this week as a ThinkBook-class concept that treats cooling as the last piece of bulk still worth removing. Shown at Innovation World on September 3, the 14-inch machine stays under 10 millimeters thick and under 830 grams, a magnesium-aluminum shell with a high screen-to-body OLED panel, Thunderbolt 4, and Wi-Fi 7. Official copy frames it as full-performance computing for hybrid work, with every part of the board and chassis sized around travel rather than a traditional heat stack.
Crowds on Shanghai’s Wujiang Road have a new reason to stall outside the Dairy Queen at No. 169, across from Louis Vuitton’s ship-shaped flagship. On August 29, Sharpa’s wheeled humanoid, North, started a daily shift behind a dedicated counter in that store, making Oreo Blizzards for paying customers on the same machines, cups, toppings, and blender a human crew already used. CFB Group runs the franchise. Sharpa and DQ call the setup the first live commercial kitchen where a humanoid works a full branded workflow without new fixtures, custom conveyors, or a rebuilt room.