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Engineers at EPFL have built a motor shaped like a thread, and it turns electrical energy directly into movement. It measures 1 to 3 mm across and is made of two hollow fibres, one nested tightly inside the other. The Swiss team works in the Soft Transducers Laboratory, part of the university's School of Engineering, and it has published the design in the journal Advanced Materials.

Anthropic has launched tools that let people build data dashboards and animations inside Claude, the assistant the company sells to businesses and consumers. The additions are aimed at broadening the range of workplace productivity tasks that the company's subscription product can handle. Reuters reported that both tools arrive alongside a wider release of software Anthropic had been testing with customers during a beta period.

A Chinese robotics firm has taught its dexterous robot hand to sew silk. AGILINK's OmniHand 3 Ultra separated a silk thread, threaded a needle and made stitches in a demonstration of Suzhou embroidery. The hand learned the craft from the embroidery master Fu Xianghong, and AGILINK published the footage on its own channel.