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The FAA has authorized Flytrex to operate drones Beyond Visual Line of Sight, making it only the fourth provider in the U.S. to gain this approval. The milestone allows the company to expand delivery service to 37 major metro areas
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Kudan has launched PRISM (Photo-Realistic Integrated Spatial Management), a new platform for creating and managing digital twins. It replaces the company’s earlier digital asset management solution and introduces major upgrades in speed, usability, and visual quality.
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AI glasses will lead the next wave of consumer devices, offering voice-first assistants that work with your phone. Displays are too early as battery, comfort, and context issues still stand in the way, and consumers are not yet ready.
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HTC has revealed VIVE Eagle, a new addition to the growing category of AI-integrated eyewear. The sunglasses enable users to take photos, play music, and access a voice assistant for tasks like setting reminders or finding local spots, all heads-up and hands-free.
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Spotify integration is now live in Waymo’s autonomous rides across San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, giving riders a way to bring their playlists along for the trip.
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Masterpiece X has released WorldEngen, an AI-native 3D scene editor that connects directly to tools like Blender, Unreal Engine, and Unity. Designed for professionals, it brings intelligent agents into established workflows to generate and refine entire scenes in real time.
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PlayCanvas, a web-first platform for building 3D applications and games, has open-sourced its Editor Frontend under the MIT license. The platform, owned by Snap Inc. since 2017, previously open-sourced its engine but kept the Editor proprietary until now.
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Figure’s humanoid robot, Figure 02, has shifted from logistics to folding laundry, one of the most demanding dexterous manipulation tasks and a first for a humanoid robot.
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The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has introduced MolmoAct 7B, a new “Action Reasoning Model” designed for controlling robots in real-world environments.
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Vuzix Corporation has introduced the LX1 smart glasses, a ruggedized, purpose-built solution designed for warehouse environments.
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MetAI, a Taiwan-based member of NVIDIA’s Inception program, is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse technologies into its MetGen digital twin engine. This includes USD Search microservices, which help transform standardized 2D CAD files and structured data into high-fidelity, SimReady environments
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Serve Robotics and Little Caesars have launched an autonomous delivery service in Los Angeles through the Uber Eats platform. The collaboration brings Little Caesars pizzas and other menu items to customers via Serve’s self-driving sidewalk robots.