For centuries, visions of the future have been dominated by dystopian warnings—cautionary tales of power gone wrong. Five Pillars of Tomorrow offers an alternative: a governance model where transparency, collective wisdom, and advanced AI safeguard human dignity.

For centuries, visions of the future have been dominated by dystopian warnings—cautionary tales of power gone wrong. Five Pillars of Tomorrow offers an alternative: a governance model where transparency, collective wisdom, and advanced AI safeguard human dignity.

Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated diffraction and data preparation modules enable unprecedented speed and efficiency for AI tasks. Demonstrations in imaging and trading showed improved accuracy, lower latency, and reduced power demand. This innovation pushes optical computing toward real-world, high-performance AI.

There’s a common misconception that AGVs are outdated while AMRs are cutting-edge. In reality, both have evolved considerably in recent years, and modern mobile robots increasingly blur the lines between the two.

A talented teenager from the UK has built a four-fingered robotic hand from standard Lego parts that performs almost as well as research-grade robotic hands. The anthropomorphic device can grasp, move and hold objects with remarkable versatility and human-like adaptability.

Robotics has moved from “point fixes” on isolated stations to the connective tissue of the entire supply chain. In practical terms, that means robots are continuously progressing from just weld or pick.

For the past several years, the world has been mesmerized by the creative and intellectual power of artificial intelligence (AI). We have watched it generate art, write code, and discover new medicines. Now, as of October 2025, we are handing […]

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For workers whose jobs involve hours of lifting and repetitive motion, even small innovations can make a big difference in preventing future musculoskeletal disorders.

The 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025) took place from October 19 to 25, 2025 in Hangzhou, China. The programme included plenary and keynote talks, workshops, tutorials, forums, competitions, and a debate. There was also an exhibition where companies and institutions were able to showcase their latest hardware and software.

We cast an eye over the social media platforms to see what participants got up to during the week.

This week, we are participating in the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems #IROS2025 in Hangzhou #China

(IRI researchers right-left): @juliaborrassol.bsky.social, David Blanco-Mulero and Anais Garrell

#IRI #IROSHangzho

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— IRI-Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (@iri-robotics.bsky.social) 24 October 2025 at 01:33

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Truly enjoyed discussing the consolidation of specialist and generalist approaches to physical AI at #IROS2025.

Hoping to visit Hangzhou in physical rather than digital form myself in the not too distant future – second IROS AC dinner missed in a row.

#Robotics #physicalAI

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— Markus Wulfmeier (@mwulfmeier.bsky.social) 20 October 2025 at 11:25

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At #IROS2025 General Chair Professor Hesheng Wang and Program Chair Professor Yi Guo share what makes this year’s conference unique, from the inspiring location to the latest research shaping the future of intelligent robotics. youtu.be/_JzGoH7wilU

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— WebsEdge Science (@websedgescience.bsky.social) 23 October 2025 at 21:32

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From Hangzhou, #IROS2025 unites the brightest minds in #Robotics, #AI & intelligent systems to explore the Human–Robotics Frontier. Watch IROS TV for highlights, interviews, and a behind-the-scenes look at the labs shaping our robotic future. youtu.be/SojyPncpH1g

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— WebsEdge Science (@websedgescience.bsky.social) 23 October 2025 at 21:25

Impressive live demonstration by @unitreerobotics.bsky.social #G1 at the #IROS2025 conference! It really works!

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— Davide Scaramuzza (@davidescaramuzza.bsky.social) 23 October 2025 at 15:26

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An incredibly fun demo of a modular legged wheel design that merges into a single unit by @DirectDriveTech at #IROS2025.

Currently, it is being driven by two people by hand pic.twitter.com/n8J5RCH1kG

— Chenhao Li @ IROS 2025 (@breadli428) October 22, 2025

#IROS2025 Only 16 years old, Jared K. Lepora stood out as the youngest presenter at this year’s IROS, impressively showcasing the dexterous robotic hand he designed in the Educational and Emotional Robots session this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/toOavpfk26

— IROS 2025 (@IROS2025) October 23, 2025

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Write With ChatGPT – Without Ever Leaving the Gmail Compose Box

ChatGPT’s maker just rolled-out an incredibly new and powerful feature for email, which enables you to use the AI to write and edit an email directly inside the Gmail compose box.

Already available for Mac users, the new feature – part of the new ChatGPT-powered browser ‘Atlas’ – is promised for Windows users in a few weeks.

A boon for people who spend considerable time cranking out emails each day, the new capability eliminates the need to jump back-and-forth between ChatGPT and Gmail when composing an email with the AI.

Instead, users can simply click open a Gmail compose box to start an email, then click on a tiny ChatGPT logo that appears in the upper left-hand corner to create an email using ChatGPT.

Essentially: No more opening a Gmail compose box on one tab, then logging into ChatGPT and opening a second tab to access ChatGPT — and then cutting-and-pasting text back-and-forth from one tab to the other to come up with an email you want to send

Instead, everything is done for you inline in a single, Gmail compose box.

Even better: You can also use the new feature to highlight text you’ve already created in a Gmail compose box — then edit that text with ChatGPT and then send when you’re satisfied with the results.

Plus, ChatGPT’s Atlas ups-the-ante even further by enabling you to use the same write-in-the-app capability in Google Docs.

And it works the same way: Simply click on a tiny ChatGPT logo that appears when you hover in the top left-hand corner of a Google Doc, enter in a prompt you want the AI to use to write text for you, click enter and ChatGPT writes exactly what you’re looking for – without you ever being forced to go outside the Google Doc for help.

In a phrase: Once word of this stellar new convenience spreads across the Web, it seems certain that there will be a stampede of people embracing the idea of using ChatGPT without ever needing to leave Gmail or Google Docs.

That should especially be the case given that the new feature is currently available on the Mac to all tier levels of ChatGPT, including the ChatGPT free level – with availability to Windows users promised soon.

Here’s how the new auto-writing feature works, step by step:

To Create New Text in Gmail Using ChatGPT In-App:

1. Open a new compose box in Gmail
2. Hover over the blinking cursor in the upper left-hand corner in the compose box until a tiny ChatGPT logo appears
3. Click on the tiny ChatGPT logo
4. A tiny prompt box appears
5. Enter in a writing prompt – the same kind of writing prompt you’d ordinarily use to trigger ChatGPT to write an email for you
6. A drop-down window appears, showcasing the text that ChatGPT just wrote for you
7. Click Insert to accept the text that ChatGPT wrote from you into your Gmail
8. Click ‘Send’ to send your email

To Edit Text You’ve Already Written in a Gmail Compose Box:

1. Highlight the text you’ve already created in the Gmail compose box
2. A tiny ChatGPT logo appears in the upper left-hand corner of the Gmail compose box
3. Click on the tiny ChatGPT logo
4. A prompt box appears
5. Type your instructions for editing the email in the prompt window
6. Click Enter
7. ChatGPT’s edit of your email appears in a drop-down box
8. Read over the text ChatGPT has edited for you
9. Click Update to add the edited text to your Gmail
10. Click Send to send your Gmail.

To Create/Edit Text in Google Docs:

1. Follow the same prompts above to create or edit in Google Docs

For an extremely excellent, extremely clear video demo of the steps above, click to this video by The Tech Girl and advance to timestamp 4:58 in the video to see what the step-by-step looks like on a PC screen.

Groundbreaking in its own right, the new write-in-the-app capability is one of a flurry of features that come with the new ChatGPT-powered browser Atlas, released a few days ago.

With the release of Atlas, ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI is hoping to capitalize on the 800 million visits made each week to the ChatGPT Web site.

Those visitors represent a motivated, ChatGPT-inspired audience. And OpenAI is hoping that by making its own AI-powered browser available to those people, they’ll abandon Google Chrome and start using Atlas to surf the Web.

Like Perplexity Comet – another new, AI-powered browser looking to carve into the Google Chrome market – Atlas is designed to work like an everyday browser that’s supercharged with AI at its core.

In practice, that means the new Atlas browser –- demoed by ChatGPT maker OpenAI last week — is designed to:

–Turbo-charge many browser actions with ChatGPT
–Offer a left sidebar featuring a history of all your chats with ChatGPT
–Enable you to search your search history using ChatGPT
–Get to know you better by remembering what you’ve done with Atlas in the past
–Offer suggested links for you, based on your previous searches with Atlas
–Work as an AI agent for you and complete multi-step tasks, such as finding news for you on the Web and summarizing each news item for you that includes a hotlink to the original news source
–Engage in Deep Research
–Pivot into using a traditional search engine view while searching
–Enable you to open say 20 Web sites, then analyze and summarize those Web sites with ChatGPT
–Integrate with apps like Canva, Spotify and more
–Auto-summarize a YouTube video for you without the need to generate a transcript of that video

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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Introducing T5Gemma, a new collection of encoder-decoder LLMs.

We’re announcing new multimodal models in the MedGemma collection, our most capable open models for health AI development.

Gemma 3n is designed for the developer community that helped shape Gemma.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, previously in preview, is now stable and generally available. This cost-efficient model provides high quality in a small size, and includes 2.5 family features like a 1 million-token context window and multimodality.

We partnered with Darren Aronofsky, Eliza McNitt and a team of more than 200 people to make a film using Veo and live-action filmmaking.