Standards, rules and the labour question: keeping people safe as machines join the workforce.
Thirty machines from 16 companies enrolled at the Hangzhou Robot School on 29 June. They sit an entrance check, train in one of four departments, take a real-scene assessment, and leave with a graded certificate and a code tied to the individual machine.
Google DeepMind's new robot models control a full humanoid rather than its upper body, run three different machines from one checkpoint, and let two robots divide a job between them. The company's own results say fine multi-finger work is still the hard part.
The AI Omnibus entered into force on 27 July, six days before the AI Act's high-risk duties were due to apply. For AI built into machines, including industrial and humanoid robots, those duties now start on 2 August 2028.
The FAA's final rule for routine drone flights beyond visual line of sight arrived at the White House regulatory review office on 10 July, 159 days after the deadline set for it by executive order and eleven months after the proposal was published.
Two peer-reviewed studies from Waymo map human fatal crash risk by city, road type and hour of the day, and find the single national average that self-driving safety claims lean on hides both the safest and the most dangerous driving in America.
