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(via 12.26 Weekly TrendDown - by The Brigade - TrendDown) March 16-22, 2026 The Top 5 Stories 1. Disney’s Olaf Robot Stole the Show at Nvidia GTC Ahead Of His Debut at Disneyland Paris on March 29th 2. Scientists Revive Brain Activity in Frozen Mouse Tissue for the First Time, Raising Hopes for Cryopreservation 3. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Discovers Its 80th Particle 4. Haidilao’s Dancing Robot Trashes a Table, Gets Manhandled by Three Staff Members, Then Goes Back to Work 5. Shenzhou-21 Astronauts Harvests Cherry Tomatoes From China’s Tiangong Space Station Plus, this week only: the paid subscriber stories are free for everyone!

(via 11.26 Weekly TrendDown - by The Brigade - TrendDown) THE TOP 5 STORIES March 9-15, 2026 1. Flying Cars Are FINALLY Here. Electric Air Taxis Are About to Take Off in 26 States 2. Meta Buys Moltbook, the AI Agent Social Network That Went Viral for the Wrong Reasons 3. Microsoft and Amazon Both Launch Health AI Products in the Same Week 4. Elon Musk Admits xAI “Was Not Built Right” and Orders Sweeping Layoffs 5. Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Surfaces With Atoms, an Industrial Robotics Company That’s Been in Stealth for Eight Years

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Florida-based IHMC Robotics teamed up with Boardwalk Robotics to build Nadia. Thankfully this isn’t an autonomous AI robot, for now at least. The robot (Nadia), IHMC Robotics, and Boardwalk Robotics are not actually affiliated with the UFC. That was just a joke. Although we’d pay to see a couple robots throw down.

Neuralink has started human clinical trials for their Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) device called N1. The company just secured another $43 million in funding, bringing their total capital raised to more than $320 million. The PRIME Study (short for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface) is for patients that have limited or no ability to use both hands due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Neuralink says it plans to perform 11 surgeries in 2024, 27 in 2025, 79 in 2026 and more than 22,000 by 2030. Once approved by the FDA, each implant surgery is expected to cost around $40,000 including exams, the device and labor. The company forecasts annual revenue as high as $100 million within five years (2028). In the short-term Neuralink is aiming to treat serious brain diseases, but the eventual goal is to provide human enhancement and achieve "symbiosis with artificial intelligence.” 😳

The TrendDown: Robot dogs are getting friendlier, Google fakes their AI demo, Meta stole your photos to train their AI, a massive robot factory is opening in the US, holograms can now fit in your pocket, DNA data storage is here, and we are one step closer to a breakthrough in fusion power. Plus a lot more.

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