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Hardware, stories 151 to 180

151TDK Will Demo Retinal-Projection Glasses With a 150 nm Mirror Inside the LensThe CEATEC prototype shown from Oct. 13 is monochrome, and TDK gives full colour and mass production only as targets for coming years.Oct 7
152Mitsubishi's $37,745 Eclipse Sportback EV Costs $134 a Mile of Range Against the LEAF's $99Divide price by EPA range and the Nissan LEAF twin lands between the SV+ and Platinum+ trims, not at the bottom.Oct 7
153The FCC's Foreign Robot Ban Splits 14 MassRobotics Members Six, Six and TwoNew foreign robot models cannot get authorization after July 28, 2026, but earlier models stay legal and conditional approvals run through the Department of War.Oct 7
154Tesla's Model 3 and Model Y Can Feed 11.52 kW to a Home, but Only With a Powerwall 3 and a New OrderPowershare Home Backup reaches Tesla's two best sellers on Oct. 6, with a 4.8-fold jump over their old 2.4 kW output and fine print on eligibility.Oct 6
155openTPU Runs Ten Small Models on a Kintex-7 Card, and Its DDR3 Bandwidth Sets Every Token RateThe AI-built accelerator posted 209 points on Hacker News. Its README numbers, all author-reported, work out to one pass over the weights per token.Oct 6
156Replacing 89,000 Satellites Every Five Years Would Mean 17,800 a Year Against 3,400 US Launches in 2025SpaceNews' constellation counts and the AIA-PwC supply-chain study point at nine components with capacity gaps and, for some, three or fewer qualified US suppliers.Oct 6
157Boston Dynamics Hires Rohit Prasad as CEO While Atlas Is Still Listed as 'In Development'Hyundai's reported 30,000-a-year Atlas goal and 300,000-actuator target do not obviously fit together, and the CEO announcement gives no unit counts.Oct 6
158Teradyne Takes an Undisclosed Stake in Bright Machines to Put Robots on AI Server LinesThe Oct. 5 announcement gives no dollar figure and no ownership share, and says the companies will only "evaluate" integrating Teradyne's robots and board testers.Oct 6
159Starship Reaches Orbit on Flight 14 and Deploys 26 Starlink V3 Satellites, Then Splashes Down EarlyAn engine failure after stage separation cut the planned nine-hour mission to about three, and ship reuse remains undemonstrated.Oct 6
160Norway Wants a Temporary Ban on Smart Glasses in Parks, Gyms and SchoolsDigitalisation minister Torgeir Micaelsen has not yet named the devices or the bill's text, and his Labour government needs other parties' votes to pass it.Oct 6
161Qualcomm Licenses Huawei's LogicFolding Patents in Multiyear Cross-LicenseHuawei says its patent licensing contracts will exceed $6.9 billion after the deal, but neither company has disclosed what Qualcomm is paying.Oct 6
162Lucid Built 2,954 Cars in Q3 and Sold 3,806, Draining Its LotProduction fell 38 percent from the second quarter as Lucid works off a $1.38 billion inventory pile with no 2026 volume target left.Oct 6
163Boston Dynamics Drops the Pinky From Atlas, Doubles Hand Joints to 13The new Atlas hand is built for a 100,000-a-year production run, but Boston Dynamics has published no price, grip force or payload for it.Oct 6
164Amprius Wins $75 Million Drone-Battery Grant, but Only $22 Million Is FundedThe Pentagon award would convert a South Korean maker's EV cell line to 12 million drone cells a year by early 2028, and most of the money still needs Congress.Oct 6
165RobCo Reaches a $1 Billion Valuation on a $40 Million Employee Share Sale, With Alfie Not Due Until March 2027The Munich robot maker's new price comes from a secondary sale, not fresh capital. Revenue, fleet size and the price of its arms are not in any of the coverage.Oct 5
166A Hobbyist FPGA Decodes Qwen3.5-9B at 8.18 Tokens a Second, Against a 17.3 Ceiling Set by DDR4Two MIT-licensed projects run the 9-billion-parameter model on bitcoin-mining FPGA cards. The numbers show where the time goes: memory bandwidth, not logic.Oct 5
167Micron Has Sold More Than 75% of Its 2027 Output, and Its Second Idaho Fab Starts Wafers in Late 2028Record quarterly revenue of $54.23 billion came with a plain admission from the chief executive: no line of sight to balance, and new cleanroom space arrives after the shortage it is meant to fix.Oct 5
168Figure Melted Its F.02 Humanoids in Finland; the BMW Record They Leave Behind Has No Fleet SizeFigure's own numbers say 1,250 runtime hours, 90,000 parts and 30,000 BMW X3s. The company never says how many robots produced them.Oct 5
169YMX Signs Five-Year Deal to Run Outrider's Self-Driving Yard Trucks, With No Fleet Size GivenThe logistics operator will put Outrider's autonomy on its Orange EV electric trucks in customer yards from 2026. The announcement gives no truck count, price or site.Oct 4
170Valve's Timur Kristóf Got a 14-Year-Old Radeon HD 7870 XT Working on LinuxA Valve driver engineer's patches moved Radeon HD 7000 and R9 200 cards to amdgpu by default in Linux 6.19, with a reported 30% uplift and a fix for a card that never worked.Oct 4
171Homa Claims 13x Better Tail Latency Than TCP for AI Clusters. Read the Conditions FirstStanford's John Ousterhout told the AI Engineer World's Fair that TCP and RoCE suit bulk transfers, not millisecond-scale AI traffic. His own caveats are the useful part.Oct 4
172Google's Lincoln Data Center Peaks at 52.65 MW, a Redaction Error ShowsGoogle called the figures trade secrets. Copying text from under the black boxes in a Nebraska state filing produced them, along with $117.6 million in expected tax refunds.Oct 4
173Tesla's Austin Robotaxi Now Closes at 11 PM, an Hour Earlier Than at Launch, as Rivian Prices Lidar at a Few Hundred DollarsElon Musk blamed grey kittens on grey tarmac for the limited night hours. Rivian's lidar cost estimate is the number that makes that explanation awkward for a camera-only fleet.Oct 4
174Linux Boots on the M4 Mac Mini After a Fix for a CPU Sleep Instruction That Wipes RegistersYureka Lilian's write-up traces the hang to Apple silicon's WFI instruction, which does not preserve state as the Arm specification requires. The workaround is now in mainline Linux.Oct 4
175IFR Counts 117,500 Logistics Robots Sold in 2025 and About 7,000 Full-Size HumanoidsThe International Federation of Robotics' service-robot tally shows warehouses, not humanoids, absorbing the units: 47% of professional shipments against under 3%.Oct 4
176Atlas Loses Its Pinky: Boston Dynamics' 13-Joint Hand Is Built Around a 100,000-a-Year TargetThe new hand has 13 degrees of freedom, up from 7, and no fifth finger. What Boston Dynamics has not published is its weight, grip force or price.Oct 4
177Google's Suncatcher Puts Four TPUs in Orbit on About 1 Kilowatt of Solar PowerThe first prototype is a survival test for Trillium chips, a long way from the 81-satellite cluster Google has sketched.Oct 3
178Figure's F.02 Robots Jumped Into a Furnace. The BMW Numbers Say More Than the Stunt.Figure melted its second-generation humanoids in Finland; its own deployment figures show 1,250 hours of work and a forearm that kept failing.Oct 3
179FedEx Orders 2,000 Harbinger Electric Trucks, About $150,000 Each, by End of 2027The $20,000-a-year fuel saving behind the $800 million claim is Harbinger's own estimate, and the delivery schedule requires roughly 130 trucks a month.Oct 3
180Mercedes Drops the EQE Sedan and Maybach EQS 680 SUV From Its 2027 US LineupThe EQE SUV stays. The CLA EV, from $47,250 with up to 374 miles of range, is the replacement route for the first-generation EQ cars.Oct 3