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Amazon Has Made a Robot With a Sense of Touch

“Amazon stores many different products in bins, so rummaging is necessary to pull out a specific object to fill an order,” says Ken...

The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive

It used to be that when BMW would refit a factory to build a new car, the only way the automaker could check...

Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing

While capabilities like dancing can be fun and eyecatching, they don’t actually show how useful humanoid robots are in real-world situations, says Fern....

Boston Dynamics Led a Robot Revolution. Now Its Machines Are Teaching Themselves New Tricks

Reinforcement learning is a decades-old way of having a computer learn to do something through experimentation combined with positive or negative feedback. It...

Five artificial intelligence trends to track in 2025

1. Smarter AI models will intensify AGI fears“Lata has three apples and buys five more....

AI-Powered Robots Can Be Tricked Into Acts of Violence

In the year or so since large language models hit the big time, researchers have demonstrated numerous ways of tricking them into producing...

The Man Behind Amazon’s Robot Army Wants Everyone to Have an AI-Powered Helper

Unlike other robots, Proxie’s battery can be swapped out to avoid downtime charging. Cobot declined to say how much Proxie costs to buy...

Inside the Billion-Dollar Startup Bringing AI Into the Physical World

OpenAI is evidently ramping up its own robotics efforts, too. Last week, Caitlin Kalinowski, who previously led the development of virtual and augmented...