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Hardware, stories 241 to 270

241Qualcomm Buys MoveIt Steward PickNik, Keeps License OpenThe chipmaker would not say what it paid for the company behind robotics' most-used motion-planning software, and its stock dipped on doubts about a near-term payoff.Sep 23
242Diraq and Dell Test Hybrid Quantum-Classical ComputingThe companies put a Dell server cluster inside Diraq's Sydney lab next to a silicon spin-qubit processor on Sept. 18, but published no latency, throughput or qubit numbers from the setup.Sep 23
243Digit 5 Has $300 Million in Orders, $1.8 Million in SalesAgility Robotics unveiled a humanoid that can work without a safety cage on Sept. 15, then filed paperwork to go public at a $2.5 billion valuation on 2025's $1.8 million in revenue.Sep 23
244AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D Beats 5800X3D by 58%, Not on ClockAn independent Geekbench 6 comparison of AMD's last three flagship desktop chips finds most of the two-year gain came from a wider core, not the 15 percent rise in boost clock.Sep 23
245Tesla Semi Lands a 2,500-Truck Order, Not All of It Tesla'sThe Microsoft- and PepsiCo-backed ZET SCALE alliance would nearly double the country's electric Class 8 fleet, but Tesla shares the order with three other truck makers.Sep 23
246NVIDIA's Isaac ROS 5.0 Brings AI Agents to Robot BuildingThe release adds an Agent Skills format for coding assistants and claims 5.5 times faster object tracking, though NVIDIA does not say against what.Sep 23
247Google's Intrinsic Open-Sources Its Industrial Robot SoftwareIntrinsic Core ships free under Apache 2.0 with FANUC and Universal Robots support, four years after its chief executive promised to act as ROS's Red Hat.Sep 23
248AMD's Two-Year, 58% Ryzen Gain Didn't Come From Clock SpeedGeekbench 6 scores rose 47% single-core and 58% multi-core from the 5800X3D to the 9800X3D, and an independent teardown credits a wider core, not frequency.Sep 23
249Raspberry Pi Locks RAM Swaps as Its Own Prices TripleA 2024 firmware check that blocks third-party RAM chips only became widely known this week, just as Raspberry Pi's own memory costs have pushed the 16GB Pi 5 from $120 to $305.Sep 22
250Mercedes Signs Wayve as a Third Self-Driving SupplierThe automaker already runs Nvidia's Alpamayo in the CLA and its own Drive Pilot on highways, and Wayve's map-free system becomes a third bet inside two years, without either company naming an automation level yet.Sep 22
251Hyundai's 25,000-Atlas Plan Has No Yearly RateBoston Dynamics opened a training center at Hyundai's Georgia Metaplant on Sept. 21, but unlike four humanoid rivals with public annual production targets, neither company has said how many Atlas units a year the plan implies.Sep 22
252Dettmers Says a 552-Billion-Parameter Model Fits on a MacBookThe Carnegie Mellon professor's own arithmetic on a smaller model checks out, but the code behind his biggest claims has not shipped and the two models he compares carry different licenses.Sep 22
253A2RL Racers Close the Gap to Human Drivers to 0.85 SecondsEvery car at Imola and Laguna Seca ran the same Dallara-based chassis and sensor stack, which means the lap-time gap to human drivers is now almost entirely a software problem.Sep 22
254Snap Prices Specs at Nearly 3 Times Meta's GlassesSnap capped the first production run of its $2,195 Specs at 100,000 units, a number that says more about the bet than the price tag does.Sep 21
255T-Rex and 4 Rivals Are Racing to Teach Robots to FeelFive research groups published tactile-manipulation datasets in 2026, and the one with the most data says robots still need more than 3 times that much to reach a breakthrough.Sep 21
256Intel Meets Half of CPU Demand, and Margins Jumped 12 PointsChief Executive Lip-Bu Tan said Intel can fill only about 50 percent of leading-edge chip orders, a shortage that arrived alongside a 12-percentage-point jump in adjusted gross margin.Sep 21
257Boston Dynamics' 25,000-Robot Plan Runs Into a Union in KoreaA Georgia training center for Atlas opened Sept. 21, but the union at Hyundai's home plants says no robot works there without a labor deal it has not signed.Sep 21
258SoftBank Agrees to Acquire the Robotics and AI InstituteThe undisclosed deal is SoftBank's second robotics purchase since its $5.375 billion ABB Robotics buy, and it comes months after Hyundai paid to own the rest of Boston Dynamics outright.Sep 21
259FDA Clears Neptune Medical's Triton 1 Robotic Colonoscopy SystemThe 510(k) clearance rests on a single 50-patient trial, pricing and a launch date are still undisclosed, and one of Neptune's own investors is separately backing a competitor.Sep 21
260Icarus Robotics Flies Its ISS-Bound Robot in Real MicrogravityJOY logged 22 minutes of true weightlessness over four flights in Canada, short of the 80 parabolas originally planned, before Icarus hands finished flight hardware to NASA in January.Sep 21
261BHP's Battery Locomotives Save 10%, Not the Fleet-Wide 30%Four years after ordering four battery-electric locomotives, BHP has two running in the Pilbara, saving fuel only when paired with diesel units, and a full fleet switch is still contingent on trial results.Sep 20
262Sunwoda's New EV Battery Ties BYD, Doesn't Beat ItThe Chinese battery maker's 15C pack matches a charging time BYD already announced, while its 10,000-station buildout target for 2027 trails BYD's network that hit that mark in August.Sep 20
263Chattanooga Utility EPB Buys a $22 Million Quantum ComputerEPB is running its own engineers on the machine before it rents time to outside researchers in October, and the fellows' first job is scheduling electric switches, not chemistry or cryptography.Sep 20
264Cornell's Battery Bath Skips Shredding, Cuts Costs 56%A Cornell lab published a process that dissolves the layer that kills spent lithium-ion electrodes and puts them straight back into a new cell, without the shredding step every other recycling method uses.Sep 20
265Nvidia Ships a Billion RISC-V Cores, Names None of ThemThe chipmaker's own Linux driver documentation for the GPU System Processor, which runs on four RISC-V cores, never uses the term, even as Nvidia says it shipped about a billion such cores in 2024.Sep 20
266Qualcomm's Adreno X2 Claims 2.3x Gains, Omits the BaselineIndependent testing by SemiAccurate and Chips and Cheese confirms real graphics gains but finds compute regressions and missing methodology that Qualcomm's own slides do not mention.Sep 20
267PrismML's Ternary Bonsai 2 27B Hides a 75% ScoreThe 98.2% headline retention figure covers 20 benchmarks; on the two that test multi-step tool use, the compressed model keeps only three-quarters of its baseline score.Sep 19
268OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Claims Hide an Unequal TestEE Times found that OpenAI's efficiency numbers for its Broadcom-built inference chip skip an optimization rival systems are usually measured with, one worth another 3 to 5 times on its own.Sep 19
269Icarus Robotics' JOY Robot Completes 66 of 80 ParabolasFour flights over three days in Canada gave the ISS-bound robot 22 minutes of weightlessness, using a foreign aircraft because no U.S. operator was available.Sep 19
270Porsche's Wireless Charger Reaches Series Production at 11 kWThe Cayenne Electric is the first Porsche with the receiver built in, though the company still hasn't said what the floor plate costs or when the U.S. gets one.Sep 19