Minerva Humanoids raised about $10M for Roger, a humanoid that bomb-disposal and energy specialists steer through VR while software keeps it upright. Paid pilots this fall will show whether crews pay for remote hands before autonomy.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
BDH-CQ updates a fixed-size internal memory instead of generating chain-of-thought tokens, and its authors put a single puzzle query at about $0.00070. Two outside researchers say the result does not yet credit the design.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives65
- Confidence58
The sandwich conjecture that Jeong Han Kim and Van Ha Vu posed in 2004 was proved in 2025, so a property established for a random binomial graph now carries to the regular graph containing it, once the graph is large enough.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives32
- Confidence54
A worldwide survey led from Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute records what working physicists believe about dark matter and quantum gravity, and the way its answer options were drawn shapes what those percentages can prove.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives60
- Confidence40
University of Waterloo anthropologists matched skeletal DNA to living relatives and named Harry Peglar, William Orren, David Young and John Bridgens. Six of the 105 men who walked away from Erebus and Terror now have names.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives62
- Confidence64
Compression let the needles keep growing sideways inside the ceramic instead of into the electrodes. That hands a large part of the solid-state failure problem to whoever specifies stack pressure in the module.
Reality
- Evidence56
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives55
- Confidence45
A Waterloo undergraduate was told to burn SIM cards and keep his Huawei phone out of the country. What got him noticed was standing on a forklift in a FedEx employee lot.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives55
- Confidence52
A UNU-INWEH policy brief says dark boreal plantations absorb enough winter sunlight to cancel 6 to 20 percent of the cooling they are credited with, and Canada's frameworks do not subtract it.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives62
- Confidence45