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Autonomous Trucking Adds a Customer as Volvo and Waabi Start Texas Freight Runs
Volvo and Waabi start paying customer freight runs in Texas. It is a genuine milestone in autonomous trucking — with an observer still in the seat.
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5G FWA Meets Open Software as TCL’s HH516 Earns prplWare Certification
TCL’s HH516 is the first dedicated 5G FWA CPE to earn prplWare certification. It is a small milestone with three catches — and a fast-growing market behind it.
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Hitachi High-Tech Opens Mumbai Analytical Lab, Extending Its India Two-Site Push
Hitachi High-Tech’s new Mumbai lab extends its India footprint to two sites. It is a catch-up move in a fast-growing instrument market — and a re-issued announcement.
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Robotic Joint Replacement Meets India’s Cost Barrier as Stryker Launches Mako 4
Stryker’s Mako 4 arrives in India against a fresh Lancet trial, a domestic rival and a cost wall. The “expand access” claim meets the premium-pricing reality.
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LG Innotek Vietnam Hub at 10: From Camera Modules to Chip Substrates
LG Innotek’s Hai Phong hub turns 10 — but the story is its pivot from low-margin camera modules into the AI chip substrates the industry can’t make fast enough.
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TIER IV Wins Japanese Grant to Trial Autonomous Buses in Saudi Arabia
TIER IV is taking its open-source Autoware stack to Saudi Arabia on a METI grant — a test of whether autonomous technology built for Japan can be retrained for the desert.
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Bloomberg Electronic Markets Automates JGB Market-on-Close Trading
Bloomberg Electronic Markets has automated JGB Market-on-Close execution — a small but telling step in the electronification of a bond market long ruled by voice trading.
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E&R Engineering Moves Packaging Production From China to Malaysia
E&R Engineering’s new Malaysia plant is small, but it sits inside a real shift: Taiwan’s packaging suppliers are following chipmakers out of China and into Southeast Asia.
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SiBionics PharmaSens: The Race to a Single-Patch Artificial Pancreas
SiBionics and PharmaSens have shown that a single-patch artificial pancreas — CGM, insulin delivery and algorithm in one wearable — is feasible. It’s a real milestone, but the device is investigational and the accuracy isn’t there yet.
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RoboParty RP1: The Open-Source Humanoid Bet, Tested
RoboParty unveiled RP1 at IROS 2026 as the world’s first full-stack open-source bipedal humanoid. The claim is contestable, and an earlier audit found the open-source promise only partly kept.