Nov 9, 2007 5:20 AM

RHex Rugged Robot Tears Though Foliage, Mud, Water

The Rugged Robot That Devours Tough Terrain [Boston Dynamics via botjunkie]

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These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out

Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.

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OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs.

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NASA’s Oldest Martian Spacecraft Have Been Running for Decades. Here’s How

Two orbiters have long outlasted their expected lifespans and completely reshaped our understanding of the Red Planet, all while operating 140 million miles from Earth.

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Cool, Cool, Cool, Palmer Luckey and Ben Lamm Made a Genetically Modified Military Dog Startup

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Kate Knibbs

Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier

Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.

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Here’s Exactly How Tesla Made Its New 230-Mph Car ‘Fly’

It turns out the Roadster 2 both sucks and blows.

Jeremy White

Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers

At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled the company’s new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics.

Tom Bristow

The ‘Exotic Physics’ Behind a Mysterious 1,000-Mile Cloud on Mars

The cloud has baffled astronomers since its discovery in 2018. Now, a new study offers a possible cause for its appearance.

Tereza Ondráčková

The Tesla Roadster 2 Is Here—and It Flies

The automaker unveiled its next luxury sports car at an event in Texas. It has thrusters on it that can send it airborne.

Aarian Marshall

Godzilla Minus Zero’s Filmmakers Terrified Bystanders With Their Monster Sounds

The team behind director Takashi Yamazaki’s new film created their kaiju roars by setting up speakers on top of an outdoor dam. The people walking by weren’t prepared for what they heard.

Max Evry