Hugging Face has shared complete plans for a bipedal robot platform that costs roughly $2,500 in parts and relies mostly on 3D-printed pieces plus common actuators and electronics. Builders start with 75 printable files that form the torso along with left and right legs. The design breaks into modular sections including hip mechanisms, thighs, knees, shins, ankles, and feet. A public Onshape CAD model lets anyone inspect or adapt the geometry before printing.
Electric vehicles and grid batteries keep lifting lithium demand higher each year. Meeting that growth cleanly matters more than ever. Spodumene holds much of the lithium locked inside hard rock deposits spread across Australia, the United States, and Europe. Mines already pull the mineral out of the ground, yet turning it into battery-grade material has always demanded extreme heat and left large piles of leftover rock. A team at MIT changed the script. Materials scientist Yet-Ming Chiang and colleagues mix crushed spodumene with a simple solution of water and ammonium fluoride. The first major step happens at ordinary room temperature.
Engineers at a Chinese materials group spent more than twenty years refining a notoriously difficult production process. Their work produced the first steady industrial supply of T1200-grade carbon fiber, a material long recognized for top-tier performance yet held back by limited output. Individual filaments measure only about six or seven micrometers wide. That size sits well below one-tenth the diameter of a human hair. When roughly 120,000 of those filaments form a single cable less than two millimeters thick, the bundle withstands extreme pulling loads.
Every Flavor of Robot built Etchbot to stand out at the OpenSauce event. The machine sketches a complete portrait on a regular Etch-a-Sketch in roughly sixty seconds. It also accepts video files and renders them by sketching one frame after another while a camera records each result. The finished time-lapse clips show the classic toy screen updating rapidly enough to convey motion.
Hyundai’s latest footage depicts Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot, standing in front of a big screen. It features video from prior World Cup matches. Atlas pays close attention to the players in motion before heading to the practice area once each segment is completed. The robot replicates the gestures it has just watched. Atlas is depicted in a single sequence shifting its weight and swinging a leg forward. When the ball makes contact with the floor, it glides cleanly over it. Basic drills are performed in quick succession, eventually strengthening coordination.
Lesley Judd stepped off a plane at Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam carrying a chunky portable computer and a small device called an acoustic coupler. In December 1986, most people had never heard of electronic mail. Micro Live, the BBC’s weekly technology program, set out to change that by following Judd as she showed exactly how this new way of sending written messages worked for someone constantly on the move.
Mr. More Gooder spends his time in the workshop turning everyday ideas into hands-on experiments. This time he decided to tackle a stubborn problem with rocket engines built on standard FDM 3D printers. Plastic parts usually fail quickly once the fuel ignites because the heat softens and melts the material. He came up with a direct fix by routing water through channels inside the printed walls to carry the heat away before the plastic could give way.
Wearing this watch provides an initial feeling of surprise, as a single needle glides across a printed scale to reveal the exact time or date without a flashing screen or ticking hands. Sahko transformed an idea drawn years ago into a polished item that fits easily around the wrist and seems both old and new at the same time. He desired a digital watch that depended solely on analog mechanics for display.
British officials announced an order for 72 units of the RCH 155 howitzer mounted on Boxer armored vehicles. The deal carries a value near one billion pounds and marks a major step in restoring the army’s long-range fire support after earlier systems went to Ukraine. Deliveries start in 2028 with full operations expected around 2030.
London-based Humanoid announced a manufacturing agreement with Bosch that moves its HMND-01 robots closer to larger deployments across European factories and warehouses. The deal follows a successful proof-of-concept test completed in March at one of Bosch’s logistics sites in Bühl, Germany. During that trial, the robots handled box transfers from conveyors to trolleys, managing five different box sizes with varying weights and shapes without missing a step.