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Axonnic offers muscle-sensing sleeves for robot training.
Source: Product Hunt
https://www.producthunt.com/products/axonnic
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Beijing stated that claims of a Chinese spy plot targeting Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang were groundless speculation and an attempt to smear China.
Source: Free Malaysia Today
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2026/10/30/china-denies-spying-on-nvidia-s-jensen-huang
#Tech #Nvidia

Researchers introduced TERRA, an online adaptation framework for planetary rovers navigating steep, deformable terrain.
Source: arXiv https://cs.ro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38657
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Noetix Robotics offered a humanoid robot named Bumi for RMB9,998, aimed at programming education and companionship. The company is pursuing higher deliveries, investing in embodied-intelligence models, and seeking customers overseas.
Source: TechNode
https://technode.com/2026/10/30/noetix-rmb9998-humanoid-just-the-start/
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The FrostyNeighbor advanced persistent threat launched a destructive attack in Ukraine and is raising concerns about deeper alignment with Russian cyber objectives.
Source: Dark Reading
https://www.darkreading.com/physical-security/russia-cyber-war-belarus-steps-forward

Researchers share Human-Robot Interaction lessons from a three-year consortium.
Source: arXiv https://cs.ro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38400
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The Wikimedia Foundation filed an amicus brief with the Southern District Court of New York in In re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation.
Source: Wikimedia Foundation
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/10/30/wikimedia-foundation-amicus-brief-new-york-times-v-open-ai-case/
#TechPolicy #OpenAI

Researchers introduced a straight-skeleton-based algorithm for generating two-finger grasp keypoints and an automated pipeline that produces consistent grasp annotations without human intervention.
Source: arXiv https://cs.ro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38443
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Researchers present Metatron, a promptable whole-body execution layer for humanoids that combines a generative base policy with a programmable skill layer.
Source: arXiv https://cs.ro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38027
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Embodied systems can update policies, world models, skills, and executable programs from deployment experience. When a system revises its learning procedures, recursive self-improvement is introduced.
Source: arXiv https://cs.ro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38266
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Researchers study whether learned preference control can transfer to new tasks whose demonstrations contain the desired behaviors but lack preference annotations. They introduce Self-Labeled Preference Transfer.
Source: arXiv https://cs.ro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38000
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Researchers introduced MATCH, an execution-aware hierarchical reinforcement learning framework for Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments.
Source: arXiv https://cs.ro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38248
#MachineLearning

The Wikimedia Foundation is staking out a middle ground in a group of landmark AI copyright cases, pushing courts to legally protect large language models training on copyrighted work.
Source: The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/policy/1022880/wikipedia-openai-new-york-times-copyright
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Mali is exploring artificial intelligence tools to detect cyberattacks and respond to online threats more quickly, after recording 1,338 cybercrime cases in 2025.
Source: Ecofin Agency
http://www.ecofinagency.com/news-digital/3010-60292-mali-explores-ai-to-fight-cybercrime-as-online-threats-grow-more-sophisticated
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Researchers introduced the Benchmark of Stellarator Simulations, a dataset pairing designs with simulation results.
Source: arXiv cs.LG
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.37910
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The European Commission announced two new drone technology hubs that will incorporate Ukrainian expertise.
Source: The Kyiv Independent
https://kyivindependent.com/eu-announces-two-new-drone-technology-hubs-backed-by-ukrainian-know-how/
#Robotics #EU

SKiD-SLAM is a distributed multi-robot LiDAR SLAM system designed for planetary missions. Researchers deployed the system across two mission concepts and analog sites.
Source: arXiv https://cs.ro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38141
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HERON is a 3D U-Net that predicts obstacle-aware reachability maps at 2 cm resolution from live depth data.
Source: arXiv https://cs.ro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38233
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Hook-type connections vary in orientation, deform under load, and have hidden geometry, making vision alone insufficient.
Source: arXiv https://cs.ro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38513
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Research studies spatiotemporal memory for zero-shot vision-language navigation using an 8B-scale system.
Source: arXiv https://cs.ro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38318
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