When Robots Have Their ChatGPT Moment, Remember These Pincers

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When Robots Have Their ChatGPT Moment, Remember These Pincers

Food handling is an area of work that still relies heavily on humans. Fruit, vegetables, meat, and other foods need to be handled...

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Ace the Ping-Pong Robot Can Whup Your Ass

Ace is a robot that aims high: It wants to become the world champion of table tennis. It was developed by Sony AI...

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A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China

Over the weekend in China, a humanoid robot shattered world half-marathon record—the human record—by seven minutes.The star performer was a robot developed by...

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I Tried DoorDash’s Tasks App and Saw the Bleak Future of AI Gig Work

The flash from my iPhone camera illuminates my dirty socks and underwear as I hold each item up for the video recording to...

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A very serious guide to buying your own humanoid robot butler

Science fiction is...

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Royal Navy returns to wind power with trial of robotic sailboats

The UK’s Royal...

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Google Gemini Is Taking Control of Humanoid Robots on Auto Factory Floors

For several decades, Boston Dynamics has pioneered the development of advanced robots, including humanoids and four-legged systems tested by the military as a...

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This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself

Memo may not be the world’s fastest barista, but it is impressive—for a robot.I recently watched as Memo, a new home robot from...

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Anthropic’s Claude Takes Control of a Robot Dog

As more robots start showing up in warehouses, offices, and even people’s homes, the idea of large language models hacking into complex systems...

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Meet the Chinese Startup Using AI—and a Small Army of Workers—to Train Robots

The real question is how effectively AgiBot’s algorithms can teach its robots new tricks. Using reinforcement learning to teach a robot tasks that...

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This AI-Powered Robot Keeps Going Even if You Attack It With a Chainsaw

A four-legged robot that keeps crawling even after all four of its legs have been hacked off with a chainsaw is the stuff...

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OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI

A renewed focus on robots would suggest that OpenAI believes reaching artificial general intelligence (AGI)—AI that exceeds human intelligence—may require developing algorithms that...

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