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Nvidia's board met late this week to decide whether to remove chief executive Jensen Huang, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, capping a week in which the chipmaker lost roughly 600 billion US dollars of market value.

Engineers at Colorado State University have built a robot that bends, collapses and stretches like an elephant's trunk, with no joint anywhere along its body. The machine is called TeCoBot, and it is assembled on the principle of tensegrity, in which stiff rods are held in a web of tensioned cables instead of being locked together at hinges. The work is set out in Nature Machine Intelligence, where Mahmud Hasan Saikot and Sydney Spiegel are named as joint first authors.

A Singapore startup says it has cut the time needed to teach a robot a new task from months to as little as 30 minutes, by training part of a model rather than all of it.