23 Jun 2026
Elon Musk’s trillion dollars aren’t real — and that’s the point
Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire in June 2026, when SpaceX’s record $75 billion IPO — the largest in history — pushed his net worth past $1.1 trillion. Before the outrage starts, consider what that number actually is — and isn’t. Musk is a trillionaire for one reason: investors, acting with free will and full information, agreed to buy in at that price. No one was forced, no one…
23 Jun 2026
China scraps 12,200 degrees, launches 10,200 new ones. Should India do the same?
Between 2021 and 2025, China’s Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) slashed 12,200 undergraduate degree programmes and introduced 10,200 new ones. Together, the changes touched more than 30% of all degree offerings in the country, impacting the academic futures of an estimated 2.4 million students. Perhaps it is the largest and fastest curriculum overhaul, any large education system has attempted…
22 Jun 2026
Largest robotics, artificial intelligence show in North America, Automate, at McCormick Place in Chicago this week
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The largest robotics and artificial intelligence show in North America is currently in Chicago. Whether they're making lattes, folding laundry or doing assembly line work, humanoid robots are the future and where money is going.
22 Jun 2026
How Nvidia aims to make humanoid robots safe for the workplace
Nvidia is working on new safety and reliability systems aimed at making humanoid robots capable of safely operating in close proximity to people in real-world environments like warehouses, factories and eventually homes, Bloomberg reports.
22 Jun 2026
Amazon and JD.com Just Unleashed A 1.3 Million Robot Job Massacre - And Policymakers Are Panicking
JD.com and Amazon plan to eliminate or avoid over 1.3 million jobs by 2033, with $12.6 billion in projected savings driving the shift Between JD.com’s 700,000 delivery couriers and the 600,000-plus hires Amazon plans to simply never make, roughly 1.3 million jobs now have expiration dates written in corporate strategy documents.
22 Jun 2026
NVIDIA releases Halos, a full-stack safety system for robotics
Agility Robotics is the first to use NVIDIA Halos for Robotics to build safety into its humanoids working in factories, warehouses, and logistics operations for customers including Amazon, GXO, Schaeffler, and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada.
22 Jun 2026
Delivery robot startup Robot.com is betting its next act on workplace humanoids
Delivery robot startup Robot.com is expanding into workplace humanoids, targeting industrial, food services, and logistics customers with a new robot designed to complete repetitive tasks.
22 Jun 2026
Inside NVIDIA Halos for Robotics: A Full-Stack Functional Safety System for Physical AI | NVIDIA Technical Blog
Physical AI —robots working autonomously alongside people in factories, warehouses, hospitals, and homes—is arriving faster than most expected. Traditional safety which was built for structured environments can not work anymore as the spaces become more unstructured and robots move out of cages. AI-driven safety is the key. Marking a major milestone in the arrival of physical AI, NVIDIA is today…
22 Jun 2026
Cobot’s Proxie Gen 2 robot adds autotasking, mobile manipulation
Collaborative Robtics’ Proxie 2.0 offers bimanual manipulation and autotasking. | Credit: Collaborative Robotics Collaborative Robotics (Cobot) unveiled the second-generation version of its Proxie mobile robot, adding greater payload capacity, self-swapping batteries, autonomous task identification, and a new two-armed manipulation option as the company looks to expand deployments across…
