AI & RoboticsNews

Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI - and training pipelines will love it

September 25, 2025
Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server – enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to access real-world statistics using natural language and better train AI systems. Launched in 2018, Google’s Data Commons organizes public datasets from a range of sources, including government…
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Biodiversity in focus: These photos just won £1,000 at the RSB Photography Competition

September 25, 2025
The winners of this year’s Royal Society of Biology (RSB) Photography Competition have just been unveiled, and the images are stunning. The competition is about more than just pictures; it’s a vital celebration of biodiversity and habitat restoration, showing how our planet can recover when given the chance. This year’s Photographer of the Year 2025 is Matthias Rueger from Vienna, Austria…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

This 75 MPH electric car with bicycle pedals to charge it is apparently the real deal

September 25, 2025
I know, it sounds too crazy to be true, but the Vigoz by French company Cixi is an honest-to-goodness pedalable vehicle with a top speed of up to 120 km/h (75 mph). And it looks pretty slick, too. I’m not sure if it’s technically an electric “car” since it only has three wheels, but it’s definitely an electric vehicle. I don’t think we can quite call it an electric bike (or e-trike)…
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DefenseNews

Military ground robots now come with amphibious skills

September 25, 2025
TROIA, Portugal — Rheinmetall Canada said it has successfully tested an unmanned ground vehicle in a novel scenario, plunging the robot into the Atlantic Ocean to see it crawl out on a sandy beach here as part of a NATO military exercise. The vehicle was the latest version…
DefenseNews

Dutch radar firm Robin turns bird-spotting skills into drone defense

September 25, 2025
PARIS — Robin Radar got into drone detection in the early 2010s, when the company needed predictable targets to validate its bird-spotting radars, founder and CEO Siete Hamminga recalls. The Dutch startup considered partnering with a pigeon club to release homing pigeons, the executive told Defense News in an interview at the DSEI UK defense show in London earlier this month. In the end, the…
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