📋 Log for 2026-10-12

😄 Joke of the Day

Why did the Clydesdale give the pony a glass of water?  Because he was a little horse!

Category: dad

Why it's funny: This joke works through clever wordplay and surprise.

Generated by your OpenClaw joke system with AI explanation at 2026-10-12T16:53:03.101Z

Latest OpenRouter Models

MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free) (minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash)

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is a multimodal model from MiniMax. Compared with M3, it delivers significant improvements across multiple benchmarks, particularly in complex agentic tasks, coding, and cybersecurity. It is built for complex,...

Published: 19/10/2026

https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017)

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the October 17, 2026 snapshot of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, served by DeepSeek under the `deepseek-flash` API model name. V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model...

Published: 17/10/2026

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017

Elorian: Glimpse (elorian/glimpse)

Glimpse is a multimodal visual reasoning model from Elorian, built for visual understanding and complex visual reasoning in the physical world. It reasons directly over images and video rather than...

Published: 17/10/2026

https://openrouter.ai/elorian/glimpse

📢 OpenClaw Releases

🌟 openclaw 2026.10.5-beta.2 🚧 Pre-release

2026.10.5-beta.2

Highlights

Updates finish and recover: `openclaw update` settles stale handoff leases, completed receipts, and legacy 2026.9.8 recovery records instead of stopping on `update-recovery-pending`, keeps the service heap limit and webhook listeners, handles Windows short-name paths, and no longer reports accepted handoffs or successful updates as failures. (#169038, #169027, #168388, #168889, #169035, #169292, #168927, #168993, #169037, #169454, #168905) Thanks @mkdelta221, @waynegault, @chedong, @k94118, @bluet, @sirius1024, @RomneyDa, @sayitfast, and @hannesrudolph.
Doctor keeps your plugins and data: Doctor preserves installed plugins' configuration when path safety checks block them, leaves malformed UTF-8 root memory files untouched, and recovery copies capture Canvas and Memory Core files before migrations move them, including on installs with no configured agents. (#168111, #169029, #169436, #169516) Thanks @obviyus, @wangmiao0668000666, an...

Published: today https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.10.5-beta.2

🌟 openclaw 2026.10.2

2026.10.2

Highlights

Updates from 2026.10.1: the first upgrade from stable 2026.10.1 now completes cleanly, successful in-place updates no longer end in errors, and Windows, cloned-filesystem, and private-Node update paths finish instead of stalling or rolling back. (#168849, #169031, #165233, #166530, #168968, #164677, #165257) Thanks @RomneyDa, @jarvisnextgeneration20-lang, and @MrJanvar.
Doctor and update recovery: Doctor no longer stops on residual legacy imports, stale Gateway locks, slow state inspection, memory reindex locks, or allowlists for removed channel accounts, and stale-receipt sessions keep their current data. (#166397, #165355, #165417, #168161, #166517, #167651, #165775) Thanks @coolcoolwcr, @obviyus, @Tosko4, @noelff, @oshunter, @donquiche61, and @RomneyDa.
Provider-native compaction: OpenAI and Anthropic API-key routes now default to provider-native compaction, and compaction recovers when the primary auth profile is cooling down. (#16816...

Published: today https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.10.2

Robot Technology

🤖 Water-pumping robot worms its way over rugged coastal terrain

Biomimicry involves borrowing ideas from nature to solve engineering problems. This is what one of the research teams at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering specializes in. We recently covered their fish-inspired robot, so exploring water bodies seems to be taken care of. Continue Reading Category: Robotics , Engineering Tags: New York University , Biomimicry , locomotion

Source: newatlas.com • Published: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:35:00 GMT

🤖 Humanoid robots can sprint and box – but the real test is doing the laundry

By Wai-keung Fung, Cardiff Metropolitan University At the recent World Humanoid Robot Games 2026 in Beijing, robots sprinted, boxed, played football and tackled tasks inspired by factories, restaurants and emergency situations. The robot Tiangong Ultra even completed the 100 metres in 8.64 seconds, quicker than Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second world record. But if we really want [&#8230;]

Source: robohub.org • Published: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:51:21 +0000

New Way to Relieve Arthritic Knees Without Drugs or Surgery by Changing Your Gait

Scientists are reporting that a simple adjustment to how people walk can relieve knee arthritis pain as effectively as prescription drugs—while also slowing the deterioration of cartilage. Nearly a quarter of people over the age of 40 experience painful osteoarthritis, due to degrading joint-cushioning cartilage—and there is currently no way of reversing this damage. The […] The post New Way to Relieve Arthritic Knees Without Drugs or Surgery by Changing Your Gait appeared first on Good Ne...