Robot realities: From heartbeats to home deliveries

ADVANCEMENTS IN ROBOTICS

🧠Empath: Meet Akmirra, Kerala’s multilingual AI teacher that doesn’t just instruct, it feels. Fluent in 51 languages and capable of reading student emotions, this robot educator is making classrooms more inclusive and emotionally intelligent. Developed with students and teachers in Malappuram, it’s part Siri, part sensei and all heart.

🤖Revolution: Hugging Face is taking a bold swing at robotics with a $3,000 open-source humanoid named HopeJR. Think Raspberry Pi but in robot form. It’s designed for devs, runs AI models, and enters the scene as a budget-friendly rival to Tesla’s $20K Optimus.

🏸Smash: From labs to the court: ETH Zurich’s ANYmal-D just became the world’s first badminton-playing four-legged robot. Using a dynamic arm, stereo vision, and reinforcement learning, it rallies like a champ literally.

🌱Weeds layer: Aigen’s Element Gen2 weeding robot just got a serious upgrade taller, smarter, and now cleaning up cotton fields using only sunlight and AI vision. With zero chemicals and autonomous fleets covering 200 acres, it's the green-thumbed cousin of Wall-E we’ve been waiting for. Farming, meet the future.

GADGETS

💸Heist: Jailbroken Amazon Fire Sticks are fueling a billion-dollar black market in streaming piracy, according to a scorching new report from Enders Analysis. From live sports to blockbuster flicks, pirated streams are flooding Europe and big tech’s digital locks, like Google’s Widevine and Microsoft’s PlayReady, are failing to hold the line.

🔋📱Drained: Pixel users, check your battery stats - Instagram was sneakily guzzling your juice. A rogue update caused widespread power drain across Google’s flagship phones, but the fix is now live in version 382.0.0.49.84. Your battery deserves better. Update now and breathe easier.

🚗Zap: Tesla just supercharged convenience for iPhone users. Thanks to a new update, Live Activities now shows real-time Supercharger stats right on your lock screen. No more unlocking your phone to check, just glance and go. It’s a small win with major plug-in peace of mind.

SPECIAL

Should robots have heartbeats?

That’s not just a sci-fi plot twist, it’s Intempus’ core thesis.

Founded by 19-year-old Teddy Warner, this bold startup is redefining the future of robotics by embedding emotional physiology into machines. Think robotic systems that simulate heart rates, body temperature shifts, even patterns of sweat not for theatrics, but to move like humans with nuance and intention.

The idea is simple, yet revolutionary: give robots a “felt presence.” By mimicking human stress, calm, or alertness through physiological cues, Intempus aims to make machine behavior more intuitive, trustworthy, and relatable especially in high-stakes scenarios like caregiving, collaboration, or customer service.

This is about more than mechanics. It’s about emotional intelligence translated into code, circuits, and motion.

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