Three heads are better than one. Versions of this proverb are found worldwide and throughout history. Yet in the race to ...

Combinatorial optimization problems are often encountered in real-world applications, including logistics, scheduling and ...

A viral post by a MAANG engineer has reignited a growing debate in tech hiring. As AI tools become part of everyday coding, ...

The United States is producing nurse practitioner graduates faster than the clinical training infrastructure can absorb them. NP programs have seen enrollment climb for three consecutive years, yet ...

China’s CPC Central Committee and State Council issued comprehensive labour rules for the country’s 200+ million gig workers, the first time the party’s highest authority has formalised protections ...

Abstract: This paper studies the multi-robot task assignment problem in which a fleet of dispersed robots needs to efficiently transport a set of dynamically appearing packages from their initial ...

Reinforcement learning hits a wall with reasoning models because every token gets the same reward. A new algorithm from Alibaba's Qwen team fixes this by weighting each step based on how much it ...

Abstract: The problem of order and rack assignment to picking stations (ORAPS) is a key joint optimization problem in the order picking process of the robotic mobile fulfillment system (RMFS). Given a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Bambu Lab just received a very interesting multimaterial patent. The patent in question, WO-2025218693-A1, “MATERIAL CHANGE HANDLING METHOD FOR 3D PRINTER, AND RELATED DEVICE”, is assigned to Shenzhen ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...