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Meta builds humanoid robot Max with Fourier in three months

Meta's first physical humanoid signals a push into embodied AI to rival Tesla's Optimus, while Walmart's $6B bet shows big retailers doubling down on specialized warehouse robots over humanoids.

Mon 2 Nov

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Meta builds humanoid robot Max with Fourier in three months

Meta has built a humanoid robot prototype named Max in about three months, working with Chinese robotics firm Fourier, The Information reports. Max stands five feet tall, weighs roughly 106 pounds,…

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Thu 22 Oct

Robotics & Physical AInew

OKA releases Mori robot lamp for $649 Founder’s Edition

OKA, a startup operating out of Cambridge, Massachusetts and Shenzhen, China, announced its first “Artifact,” a 12‑inch robot lamp called Mori. The Founder’s Edition sells for $649, is limited to a…

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hot Brookfield and Drax plan up to 1 GW AI data center at Drax Power Station 3 Nov new Nvidia orders data center clients to cut China exposure, FT reports 3 Nov hot AI data centres could undermine UK's net zero goals 3 Nov new BairesDev joins Anthropic Claude Partner Network as Select services partner 3 Nov hot Intuit expands AI platform to automate invoicing, financing, and payroll for small businesses 3 Nov new Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says creating conscious AI would be reckless and urges transparency 1 Nov hot MIT researchers report GPT-6 Astra natively reads and writes neural network weights, raising Qwen3.5-0.8B MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% by editing 0.016% of weigh 2 Nov new L-STAR uses visual LLMs to improve spatial transcriptomics domain detection 3 Nov