News Summary:
On June 25, 2026, SRI International’s Self-Cooling Paint earned recognition in the World Economic Forum’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2026 report, ranking third among the year's most consequential emerging technologies for its passive radiative cooling capabilities. Previously, on June 24, SRI’s Artificial Intelligence Center celebrated 60 years of sustained AI contributions, having been established in 1966 as one of the world’s first research groups devoted to AI, investigating the possibility of computationally based systems that could reason and act like humans. Earlier on June 18, SRI spinout Autonomique successfully moved its AI-powered robots, leveraging licensed teleoperation and AI, from pilot to full production deployment at F&P Manufacturing, a Canadian Tier 1 automotive supplier, with plans to expand across F.tech’s global network. Also on June 18, Fiona Baker, PhD, director of the Human Sleep Research Program at SRI International, co-authored a discussion abstract at the SLEEP 2026 Annual Meeting, where she discussed key takeaways on how the NK3 receptor antagonist elinzanetant (Lynkuet) reduced wakefulness after sleep onset, with multiple data presentations highlighting its positive sleep impacts in postmenopausal women, including from the phase 2 NIRVANA study. This followed the recognition of SRI robotics researcher Tixiao Shan on June 17, whom Scientific American named one of its "Young American Scientists 2026" for his work on robots that navigate spaces, reason about objects, and understand relationships.
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