The annual RoboCup event, where teams gather from across the globe to take part in competitions across a number of leagues, will this year take place in Brazil, from 15-21 July. An important part of the week is RoboCupJunior, which is designed to introduce RoboCup to school children, and sees hundreds of kids taking part in a variety of challenges across different leagues. This year, the lead organizer for RoboCupJunior is Ana Patrícia Magalhães. We caught up with her to find out how the preparations are going, what to expect at this year's competition, and how RoboCup inspires communities. RoboCup will take place from 15-21 July, in Salvador, Brazil.

Small-scale, hyper-efficient living has always appealed to me, so I was overjoyed to step into numerous examples of sustainable tiny homes this week at CES 2025. There were EV RVs, trailers geared for camping and deliverable, turn-key, self-sustaining living pods. I want one of each to create a little eco village somewhere, preferably within walking distance to a bakery, coffee shop and Thai food. While none of these are cheap, some actually fall under what I would expect, compared to the market at large. And the suite of features employed represent some of the best sustainability capabilities available at the moment -- solar power, gray water recycling, atmospheric water generation and boss-level insulation.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, perhaps the most over-the-top, bombastic event ever to be designated an industry trade show, is no more. E3 was a staple of the video game calendar for over two decades, showing off the latest and greatest in gaming hardware and software every summer. But it's been officially declared dead by the ESA, in the wake of diminishing trade shows worldwide post-Covid pandemic. E3's demise wasn't exactly shocking, since it hasn't held a live, in-person event since 2019. But the closure of such a high-profile event has some people wondering: Is CES, the electronics industry's most high-profile event, next on the chopping block?

This year's Swiss Robotics Day – an annual event run by the EPFL-led National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics – will be held at the Beaulieu convention center in Lausanne. For the first time, this annual event will take place over two days: the first day, on 4 November, will be reserved for industry professionals, while the second, on 5 November, will be open to the public. Visitors at this year's Swiss Robotics Day are in for a glimpse of some exciting new technology: a robotic exoskeleton that enables paralyzed patients to ski, a device the width of a strand of hair that can be guided through a human vein, a four-legged robot that can walk over obstacles, an artificial skin that can diagnose early-stage Parkinson's, a swarm of flying drones, and more. The event, now in its seventh year, was created by NCCR Robotics in 2015. It has expanded into a leading conference for the Swiss robotics industry, bringing together university researchers, businesses and citizens from across the country.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has won approval to build a 29-mile tunnel system underneath the Las Vegas strip. It will allow up to 57,000 passengers to hitch rides in Teslas to and from casinos every hour, as well as to the city's airport and the Raiders football stadium. The SpaceX founder's Boring Company already operates a smaller version of the'Vegas Loop' system underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center, which opened earlier this year to lackluster reviews. Instead of futuristic cars zipping people from place to place at high speeds, it features regular Tesla vehicles being driven by humans trundling through a tunnel at just 35mph. However, a huge city-wide expansion of the tunnels, which was proposed by The Boring Company in December last year, has now been approved by Vegas officials.

The Cincinnati Auto Expo is known for its display of luxury vehicles, but you won't need to test drive anything luxurious to get a taste of the latest in semi-autonomous features. Semi-autonomous features such as automatic cruise control, rear cameras and lane changing technology – previously reserved for luxury line automobiles – have become mainstream in a matter of about five years, according to Charlie Howard, executive vice president of Greater Cincinnati Automobile Dealers Association. Howard said the industry is inching towards autonomous vehicles, or self-driving cars, feature by feature. "What you're just seeing more and more and more is that technology, you know, trickling through the various vehicles at all different price points," he said. Some of the features trigger your seat or steering wheel to vibrate when you back up too close to an obstacle, or when your car begins to veer outside of its lane.

Marketing has become "much more of a technology function," according to International Business Machines Corp. CMO Michelle Peluso. "The intersection of marketing and tech is so critical right now that there's a strong, great reason to be [at CES], to be exploring and thinking about what's coming." Marketing technology accounted for nearly a third of marketing expenses in 2018, according to a Gartner survey of more than 600 marketers in North America and the U.K., up from 22% the year earlier. Anticipation and hype around the ever-closer arrival of 5G wireless service dominated CES this year. The high speed of data transmission via 5G will be transformational across everything from phones to cars to augmented reality, Adobe Systems Inc.

Things are not only bigger in Texas, they're also hotter, more sprawling and increasingly traffic-clogged thanks to a population boom that has lasted nearly a decade. In many of the state's fast-growing, car-dependent cities, these realities make for lousy walking conditions and long commutes. For the self-driving car company Drive.ai, Nearly four months after the Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up launched a six-month pilot program in nearby Frisco, Tex., the company deployed its second self-driving service on public roads in Arlington, Tex., on Friday. The service -- which is free to use -- will operate multiple routes in geo-fenced areas in downtown Arlington, according to Drive.ai

Things are not only bigger in Texas, they're also hotter, more sprawling and increasingly traffic-clogged thanks to a population boom that has lasted nearly a decade. In many of the state's fast-growing, car-dependent cities, these realities make for lousy walking conditions and long commutes. For the self-driving car company Drive.ai, Nearly four months after the Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up launched a six-month pilot program in nearby Frisco, Tex., the company deployed its second self-driving service on public roads in Arlington, Tex., on Friday. The service -- which is free to use -- will operate multiple routes in geo-fenced areas in downtown Arlington, according to Drive.ai

Attendees take pictures before the start of the opening keynote during the 2018 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference at the San Jose Convention Center on June 4, 2018 in San Jose, Calif. Apple CEO Tim Cook will kick off the WWDC that runs through June 8. SAN JOSE -- Apple unveiled new ways to limit your screen time on iPhones and other mobile gadgets at its annual developers conference here -- and at the same time unleashed new ways to spend more time on its devices. That seeming contradiction highlights the growing dilemma for Silicon Valley giants such as Apple, Facebook and Google as they pitch their ubiquitous products while acknowledging growing concerns about tech addiction and consumer privacy. Apple tackled the latter with new settings in its Safari browser that allow users to limit Facebook and others apps from following their trails around the Web -- a pointed knock against the social network, which fended off a new round of privacy breach allegations this weekend.