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Asimov v1 DIY Humanoid Kit: A $15,000 Open-Source Humanoid You Build Yourself
K-Scale Labs collapsed in late 2025. Open-source humanoid robotics lost its poster child. Now Menlo Research is filling that gap with the Asimov v1 DIY Humanoid Kit — a “Here Be Dragons” edition that ships as a box of parts and a build manual. What You Get for $15K The kit includes everything: structural frame,… Continue reading
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Omi by BasedHardware: An $89 Pendant That Watches Your Screen and Listens to Everything
BasedHardware’s Omi started as an open-source AI audio wearable — a Mentos-sized pendant you clip on or wear as a necklace, $89. It records conversations, runs them through GPT-4o for real-time transcription, and spits out summaries, action items, and follow-ups. 300,000+ users, 7.9k GitHub stars, SOC 2 and HIPAA compliant. Standard stuff for the AI… Continue reading
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Rapyuta Robotics ASRS + PA-AMR: 300 Robots, Zero Anchors, Deployed in Days
An ETH Zurich spinoff just showed up at MODEX 2026 with warehouse robots that don’t need you to rip up your floor. Rapyuta Robotics — already the top pick-assist AMR vendor in Japan, backed by JSR — unveiled upgraded versions of its two flagship hardware lines: the Rapyuta ASRS and the Rapyuta PA-AMR. What the… Continue reading
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Noblelift NobleOne AI Forklift Platform Turns Every Forklift Into a Connected Command Center
Warehouses have AMRs, autonomous sweepers, and humanoid robots. But the forklift — the thing that moves 90% of goods inside a facility — has been stuck in the analog age. Noblelift’s answer: bolt AI directly onto the truck. NobleOne, unveiled at MODEX 2026 in Atlanta this week, is the first fully integrated AI forklift platform… Continue reading
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Google and Synaptics Put Two NPUs on One Edge AI Board — The Synaptics Coral Dev Board Ships With Gemma 3 Ready to Go
Google Research and Synaptics shipped a dev board with two NPUs on one chip. The Synaptics Coral Dev Board, launched at Embedded World 2026, packs the Astra SL2619 SoC — dual Arm Cortex-A55 cores, Google’s open-source Coral NPU, and Synaptics’ 1-TOPS Torq NPU. First time the Coral NPU has hit production silicon. Pre-loaded with Gemma… Continue reading
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Plaud NotePin S: A $179 Wearable Recorder That Lets AI Agents Capture Real-World Conversations
A 0.61oz pin on your shirt that records 20 hours straight, transcribes 112 languages, and now has a full developer API. Plaud NotePin S is the rare AI wearable you can actually build on. The Hardware Tiny clip-on recorder — 2 x 0.83 x 0.43 inches, 64GB storage, 320mAh battery. Press the physical button, it… Continue reading
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$270M for a 42-Pound Drone: How Kraus Hamdani K1000ULE Won the Air Force’s Biggest ISR Bet
75 hours airborne. No refueling. A 42.5-pound solar-powered drone at 20,000 feet while one operator controls the swarm. On April 7, AFCENT handed Kraus Hamdani a $270 million contract for the K1000ULE — its largest ultra-long-endurance ISR drone order. The Hardware Fixed-wing, Group 2 drone. 16.5-foot wingspan, all-electric propulsion, lithium-ion batteries recharged by solar cells… Continue reading
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DJI Lito (Lito 1 & Lito X1): The Last DJI Drones to Clear FCC Before the Ban
DJI drops a brand-new sub-250g drone line on April 23 — and the timing matters more than the specs. What Is the DJI Lito? Two foldable consumer AI drones. The Lito 1 (~$330) is the entry-level pick replacing the Mini 4K: 22 GB storage, 30-min flight time, and basic intelligent flight modes. The Lito X1… Continue reading
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Tennant X16 SWEEP: An 1,800-lb Autonomous Sweeper That Never Asks for a Break
Tennant, the 154-year-old cleaning equipment company, just shipped its first fully autonomous industrial sweeper — the X16 SWEEP. Unveiled at MODEX 2026 on April 7, this is an 816 kg robot that sweeps up to 105,000 sq ft per hour, runs six hours on lithium-ion batteries, and docks itself to charge when done. No human… Continue reading
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Orange Pi 6 Plus: A $199 Single-Board Computer With 45 TOPS and 64GB RAM
A Raspberry Pi competitor just showed up with laptop-class specs. 12 CPU cores, 45 TOPS of AI compute, up to 64GB LPDDR5, and dual NVMe SSD slots — on a single board for $199. 30 TOPS NPU on a 6nm SBC The Orange Pi 6 Plus runs the CIX P1 (CD8180) SoC — 12-core Armv9.2… Continue reading
