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Rokid has launched a ride hailing service on its AI glasses in partnership with Tencent Mobility, letting a wearer book a car by voice without taking out a phone at all. A user says a destination, and the glasses handle pickup points, fare comparison, booking and payment. Rokid describes it as the industry's first native ride hailing service for AI glasses, a claim the company makes itself with no outside party cited.

Tesla has unveiled a new Roadster that jumps over a line of cars and turns a slow rotation in midair. The trick relies on cold gas thrusters, engineering drawn from SpaceX and reworked to work in the atmosphere rather than the vacuum of space. TechCrunch reports that the car used a mix of high powered fans and thrusters to drive up an inverted ramp, spin around, and settle back onto the pavement, before lifting itself over a Cybercab, a Cybertruck, a Tesla Semi, a Model Y, an

Roboticists from the Robotics and AI Institute, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have developed a new dual-armed robotic system known as AthenaZero. This robot achieved human-like agile movements, successfully performing baseball-inspired tasks. These tasks included throwing balls, catching them, and hitting them with a bat, a notable development in robot manipulation capabilities.