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China’s role in Ivory Coast, Maggie Cheung’s career evolution: 5 weekend reads you missed

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 20, 2026

We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like…

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‘Cruel, wasteful’: Dakar port a hotspot for illegal shark fins

Japan Times Technology·Jul 20, 2026

Finning, the practice of removing fins and casting the rest of the shark overboard, often alive, is largely prohibited across a variety of…

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2,000 children of A-bomb survivors support Hidankyo movement

Japan Times Technology·Jul 20, 2026

Members of organizations cooperating with Nihon Hidankyo have held exhibitions on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, collected signatu…

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Trump welcomes reports Andy Burnham could open up North Sea oil drilling

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 19, 2026

US President Donald Trump has said people in the Scottish city of Aberdeen will be “dancing in the streets” following reports Andy Burnham…

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Startup

Kyiv pounded in Russian missile barrage as air defences run low

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 19, 2026

Russia battered Ukraine’s capital Kyiv overnight with one of its biggest ballistic missile barrages of the war, killing at least one person…

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Humanoid

How to avoid the teleoperation trap in robotics development

The Robot Report·Jul 19, 2026

Teleoperation is necessary for training humanoid robots, but reinforcement learning and simulation are still necessary, says Flexion's CEO.…

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Hong Kong’s 5-year plan must focus on what the city does best

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 19, 2026

Hong Kong has embarked on the path of drawing up its first five-year plan – a significant moment in its history. Hong Kong’s first five-yea…

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Canada to evacuate Ontario community as wildfire smoke chokes US

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 18, 2026

The Canadian military was preparing on Saturday to evacuate a remote community of 600 people threatened by forest wildfires that have sprea…

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Cobot

Palm Garden AI develops Coherence Guard relational decision layer for human-facing robots

The Robot Report·Jul 18, 2026

Palm Garden AI is developing a hardware-agnostic software layer, including Coherence Guard, for human-robot interaction and relationships.…

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Trump blames Canada for wildfire smoke, says he’ll add cost to tariffs

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 17, 2026

US President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Canada for wildfire smoke spreading across the United States and said he would add the “incalcul…

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Construction

Founder of Maximo discusses how robotics is accelerating solar construction

The Robot Report·Jul 17, 2026

Maximo founder Deise Yumi Asami discusses the process of automating solar construction with robotics. The post Founder of Maximo discusses…

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Manipulation

This Graduate Student Equips NASA’s Robots With Assembly Skills

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 17, 2026

Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered robotics…

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Humanoid

Weave Robotics launches Isaac, its first mobile humanoid robot

The Robot Report·Jul 17, 2026

Weave Robotics has listed the features of its Isaac wheeled bimanual manipulator robot for household and office use. The post Weave Robotic…

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Humanoid

Video Friday: Your Robot Surgeon Will See You Now

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 17, 2026

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…

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Startup

With new funding, Monumental plans to bring its construction robots to the U.S.

The Robot Report·Jul 17, 2026

Monumental acts as a subcontractor during construction tasks. Contractors pay the company for finished walls rather than for robots. The po…

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The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China’s latest AI leap

MIT Technology Review·Jul 17, 2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of t…

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Undergrads’ weed-killing robot wins top prize

Robohub·Jul 17, 2026

Andrew James (from left), Neil Morrison, Natalia Kurz and Michael Neiss work on a prototype of their weed-killing robot ahead of The Farm R…

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There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it.

MIT Technology Review·Jul 17, 2026

Perimenopause has entered the chat. Perimenopause—and its better-known relative, menopause—used to be considered taboo. Not anymore, thanks…

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The risk of weather data sabotage is rising

MIT Technology Review·Jul 17, 2026

Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast…

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Japan’s parliament passes bill to revise retrial system

Japan Times Technology·Jul 17, 2026

The revised code will prohibit prosecutors from appealing court orders to initiate retrials in principle, while some exceptions will be all…

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Chinese scientist’s sodium battery leap; petition to boot Argentina: SCMP’s 7 highlights

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 17, 2026

We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with…

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US confronts floods, heatwaves, smoky skies all at once amid Trump aid cuts

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 17, 2026

Across the US this week, different disasters – from Canadian wildfire smoke darkening the skies in the Midwest and northeast to extreme hea…

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US pounds Iran as Tehran threatens to ‘crush’ Middle East infrastructure

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 16, 2026

The United States and Iran traded attacks on Friday, with Tehran targeting American assets across the Middle East in the biggest escalation…

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Texas floods kill 2, with more storms to come

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 16, 2026

Mandatory evacuations across the Texas Hill Country are under way as life-threatening flash floods wreck bridges and roads with more heavy…

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