This looks like the setup for a great knock-knock joke, but we can't think of a punchline.While we've heard a lot about humanoid robots lately, the technical requirements for their bipedal walking gait will likely keep them quite expensive – and thus little-seen. By contrast, the "semi-humanoid" FlashBot Arm is something you might actually encounter sometime soon.The bot is being manufactured...

Manufacturing partner, Horien, in Switzerland has so far been producing sodium metal chloride batteries in factories like this, but will also take on production of Inlyte's sodium-iron batteries.We've long relied on lithium-ion batteries for long-term energy storage, but they can be expensive to produce and maintain over the years. California-based startup Inlyte wants to offer a scalable alter...

Groups that once were biggest fans of EVs like Tesla show steepest decline in wanting to own one now. Over the past two years, the only demographic group surveyed that saw an increase in their interest in EVs was Republicans, and that growth was negligible.Tesla is responsible for creating the electric vehicle market and in many ways is synonymous with EVs. It’s also possible TeslaTSLA $252.93...

The French cookware brand reinterpreted its signature color to celebrate a century in business.Le Creuset turned 100, and to celebrate, it released a new cookware collection in a hue inspired by its original color, Flame.Named Flamme Dorée, French for “golden flame,” the set includes round and oval dutch ovens, a braiser, and a saucepan in a rich orange gradient with a shimmering gold finish...

Spotify officially discontinued their first and only hardware product – the Car Thing in December 2024, leaving us entering 2025 with a palpable car media player-shaped void in our hearts. But here’s a question – what if we just had other companies make Car Things instead of Spotify? This new ChatGPT AI feature allowed us to imagine what the Car Thing would look like if it was built by other...

Since then, the hype around AI, gen AI, and large language models (LLMs) has only amplified. User interest has doubled, investment in AI is skyrocketing, governments are taking more emphatic and explicit positions, and the stakes are about as high as they get—the future of humanity, according to some.The HBR editors and I felt a need to update the research. Much has happened over the past 12 m...

Prada plans to invest an additional €250 million in relaunching Versace, which has struggled to keep up with bigger heritage brands since selling to Michael Kors parent Capri Holdings in 2018.Prada Group has agreed to acquire Versace from Capri Holdings for €1.25 billion ($1.38 billion), after negotiating a discount of more than €200 million due to the impact of US president Donald Trump’s...

Futuristic holograms you can manipulate have become a reality sooner than we thought, thanks to breakthrough display. Holograms that can be physically manipulated have made their way out of science fiction and into real life thanks to a breakthrough in mixed reality technology.In a new study uploaded March 6 to the HAL open archive, scientists explored how three-dimensional holograms could be g...

A comprehensive guide to mastering fundamentals, patterns, and examples of agentic architectures.This e-book introduced agentic architectures. It discussed the components, which are the foundational building blocks, and the underlying patterns, which can be combined into an overall architecture.Depending on the complexity of your use case, we first discussed the advantages and disadvantages of...