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Hardware, stories 271 to 300

271FDA Clears Neptune Medical's Triton Robot, a 54.2% Detection RateThe Triton 1 system reached the cecum in every one of 50 trial procedures, but Neptune still won't say what it costs or when a hospital can actually buy one.Sep 19
272Queensland's Cyborg Cockroaches Hit 72% on a Rescue TaskThe roach-mounted robots reached every checkpoint in 25 lab trials, but researchers say a real deployment is still five to ten years away.Sep 19
273Cactus Needle 3 Claims DeepSeek-Level Tool Calls at 29 MegabytesHacker News commenters who tried the tiny model on ordinary requests got it right roughly a third of the time, and the company's own co-founder didn't fully disagree.Sep 19
274XPeng Is Selling the Self-Driving Stack Tesla Couldn't Give AwayXPeng's services revenue grew 93.9 percent in a single quarter by licensing its driving and cockpit software, the exact business Elon Musk has failed to build since 2021.Sep 18
275Toyota's Cheapest EV Grew While the US Market Shrank 46.9%The bZ posted its best month yet in August, and Cox Automotive's own data shows why: EVs are only gaining ground in the U.S. where the sticker price is lowest.Sep 18
276SoftBank Trades Its Last Boston Dynamics Stake for a Research LabSoftBank agreed Sept. 18 to buy back the robotics research lab it spun off in 2022, months after Hyundai locked in a 2021 contract price for the humanoid maker itself.Sep 18
277BMW Starts iX3 Deliveries Nine Days Early as Debrecen Adds a ShiftDealers began handing over the $61,500 electric SUV on Sept. 16, and the reason traces back to a Hungarian factory that BMW says ramped up faster than any other plant in its history.Sep 18
278Waymo Targets Singapore for 2028, Two Rivals Already Carry RidersWeRide and Pony AI have carried invited and paying riders through Singapore's Punggol district since April, roughly two years before Waymo's own timeline puts a rider in one of its cars there.Sep 18
279Royal Enfield Prices Flying Flea at €5,990 Abroad, ₹2.79 Lakh at HomeNew Atlas pegs the electric motorcycle's April price in India at roughly $3,000 by direct conversion, and Royal Enfield has already lived through the same gap once with a gasoline model.Sep 18
280Nvidia Won't Call Its Working Rust GPU Track Production-Readycutile-rs already backs an open-source LLM server and a Hugging Face testbed, but Nvidia's Sept. 8 announcement stops short of endorsing either new track for production.Sep 18
281Arm Reuses the Total Design Name for Robots, Not Yet the SiliconThe original Total Design already has a customer-ready chiplet on TSMC's N2 process; the physical AI version Arm announced Sept. 8 is a set of robot-capability definitions.Sep 18
282Satrec's 10-Centimeter Satellites Need Thinner Air to WorkSatrec Initiative said Sept. 17 it will build four optical satellites for Hanwha's reconnaissance constellation, but the resolution only works below 400 kilometers, an altitude where atmospheric drag erodes a spacecraft within months.Sep 17
283Icarus Robotics Validates Joy With 22 Minutes of WeightlessnessThe free-flying robot completed four parabolic flights in Canada on the way to a 2027 ISS demonstration, a fraction of the thousands of hours NASA's own Astrobee has already logged aboard the station.Sep 17
284Hyundai Prices the Staria Electric Below the ID. BuzzOrders opened in Germany on Sept. 3 at 57,450 euros, undercutting Volkswagen's van by 437 euros while charging in a third of the time on an 800-volt system the ID. Buzz doesn't have.Sep 17
285Colibrì Runs a 744B Model in 25GB of RAMThe pure-C engine streams routed experts from disk instead of holding them in memory, and it earned 937 points on Hacker News along with real doubts about whether 0.1 tokens a second is actually useful.Sep 17
286Apple Signs Photos at the Sensor, Where Google's Pixel Scheme FailedReference Image starts its cryptographic chain inside the iPhone 18 Pro's camera sensor and pairs it with a per-sensor revocation system that Google's Pixel 10 implementation of the same industry standard never had.Sep 17
287Quobly Runs Three Quantum Operations on a Commercial Chip LineThe French startup's readout and gate demonstration ran on the same 300-millimeter STMicroelectronics process that makes ordinary chips, but it withheld the error rates that would say whether the qubits are any good.Sep 16
288DiscoStarslayer Cracks the PS2's Last Locked Chip After 26 YearsA four-year decapping project defeated the CXP102064 MechaCon security chip in Sony's original PlayStation 2, the chip the 2021 MechaPwn exploit never reached.Sep 16
289Nvidia Opens CUDA to Rust With Two Competing CompilersNvidia's cutile-rs track claims 7 terabytes a second on a B200 in the company's own benchmark, while the lower-level cuda-oxide track is an alpha that needs a pinned nightly Rust toolchain.Sep 16
290Stanford Study Finds Local AI Loses on Watts, Not CoverageLocal language models can now answer 88.7 percent of a million real-world queries, a Stanford and Together AI study finds, but the chip running them still spends more power per correct answer than the cloud GPUs it is meant to route around.Sep 16
291XPeng's Robotics Unit Raises $900 Million for Its IRON HumanoidThe round values the unit at $6.3 billion and is meant to fund mass production of a 76-degrees-of-freedom robot running on three of XPeng's own AI chips.Sep 16
292FDA Clears Vitestro's Aletta to Draw Blood Without a HumanThe De Novo authorization lets one phlebotomist supervise three robots at once, built on a 1,600-patient Dutch trial and a two-year head start in Europe.Sep 16
293SpaceX Targets Sept. 22 for Starship's First Real OrbitFlight 14 will skip both the booster and ship catch to focus on deploying Starlink V3 satellites three times heavier than the ones Falcon 9 carries today.Sep 16
294BMW's iX3 Hits 100,000 European Orders in Its First YearOne in three European EV orders is now for the Neue Klasse SUV, built at a Hungarian plant that reached its own 50,000th unit nine months after start of production.Sep 16
295Universal Robots Launches Gen 7 Cobots, Withholds PricingThe new UR10g, UR17g and UR18g arms are named for exactly what they lift and how far they reach, but Teradyne's robotics unit will not say what they cost.Sep 15
296NHTSA Opens Audit Into How Tesla Certified the CybercabAudit Query AQ26002, opened the day Tesla began charging fares in Austin, examines the paperwork behind a robotaxi built with no steering wheel, brake pedal or mirrors.Sep 15
297OpenArm's Open-Source Robot Arm Costs $6,500 a PairEnactic's 7-DOF arm has been shipping since July 2025, but a Hacker News post about it drew 202 points this month, more attention than the hardware has gotten in over a year.Sep 15
298Agility Prices Digit 5 at $200,000, or $8,500 a MonthThe fifth-generation robot lifts 40 percent more than its predecessor and adds an Nvidia-built safety system, but early customers will not get one until 2027.Sep 15
299AWS's Sept. 14 Model Batch Splits Between NVFP4 and Plain FP8Qwen and Gemma variants shrink under Nvidia's 4-bit NVFP4 format while Mistral's Ministral-3 sticks with 8-bit FP8, and the difference is which GPUs can actually run them.Sep 15
300Apple Sets macOS 27 as Rosetta's Final Full ReleaseA developer note and a support article agree that general Rosetta support ends when macOS 28 ships, but a third Apple page briefly told developers a different version number.Sep 15