Business
Automated mobile robots are a cybersecurity risk
For several years I’ve been evangelizing about the growing ways automation and robotics are beneficial to all. From medical facilities to…
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News
Don’t Teach the Robots to Lie
New state AI laws are a warning about our civilization’s relationship to truth. Source link
Business
AI robots can already carve stone statues. Entire buildings are next
Inside a cavernous 1930s-era warehouse on the northern edge of Brooklyn, the ancient and all-but-extinct art of stone carving is having a…
Fashion
EXCLUSIVE: With Robots and Trunk Towers, Louis Vuitton Goes Big With Osaka Exhibition
Robotic arms that test the durability of handbags, a pristine swatch of 128-year-old monogram canvas, and snazzy red-carpet dresses custom…
Business
FedEx partners Singapore startup QuikBot to deploy robots for deliveries in commercial areas
Courier and logistics giant FedEx has partnered home-grown startup QuikBot Technologies to deploy autonomous delivery robots to commercial…
Business
How China is leading the humanoid robots race
I’ve worked at the bleeding edge of robotics innovation in the United States for almost my entire professional life. Never before have I…
Business
“M3GAN 2.0” Is a Victim of Inflation
The sequel, which adds more A.I.-endowed robots and increases their powers, diminishes its dramatic impact. Source link
Business
Will.i.am and Execs From LinkedIn, Coca-Cola, Canva and More Talk Innovation, Creativity and AI at Cannes Lions: ‘The Robots Are Not Taking Over’
At Cannes Lions this week, Variety hosted its “In the C-Suite” conversations, a series of thought-provoking discussions featuring some of…
Culture
Do Androids Dream of Anything at All?
Although the literature of automatism has existed in one mold or another since the late Middle Ages—with sixteenth-century folktales about…
Business
The Download: Amsterdam’s welfare AI experiment, and making humanoid robots safer
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.…
News
Why humanoid robots need their own safety rules
“If Digit’s going to walk out into an aisle in front of you, you don’t want to be surprised by that,” he says. The robot could use voice…
News
Robots struggle with endurance. Feeding them could help
Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in Beijing in just under 2 hours and 40 minutes. That’s slower than the human winner,…
Culture
What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I.
For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. In the spring of 1940, Isaac Asimov, who had just…
News
UK trial shows space robots could build solar farms in orbit
Remote-controlled robots could one day build giant solar farms in space, according to a recent trial in the UK. British startup Space…
Business
China’s Honor developing humanoid robots in US$10 billion AI plan
The company is building its own agentic AI services that will be integrated into its software for smartphones and other devices R Device,…
Business
Beyond Imagination raises $100 million to build humanoid robots
A humanoid robotics startup co-founded by prominent artificial-intelligence futurist Ray Kurzweil said on Tuesday that venture capital…
Business
The AI Hype Index: AI agent cyberattacks, racing robots, and musical models
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of…
Business
Sweetgreen’s CEO on Robots, RFK Jr. and Why Salads Are So Expensive
When Jonathan Neman was a student at Georgetown in the mid-2000s, he and some friends wanted to start a restaurant. A fast-food…
Business
ARX Robotics rides defence tech wave with €31M for battlefield robots
German defence tech startup ARX Robotics has secured €31mn to ramp up production of its autonomous battlefield robots, which look like…
Business
Can construction robots solve Europe’s housing crisis?
Europe’s housing crisis is deepening. High building costs, tight regulations, and labour shortages have choked the supply of affordable…
Business
China races robots against humans in Beijing half-marathon
Robots ran alongside humans at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday. Twenty-one humanoid robots, designed by Chinese…
News
‘Love, Death and Robots’ Season 4 Sets May Return Date, Releases First Look
“Love, Death and Robots” Season 4 is officially returning to Netflix May 15 with ten short animated stories done in varying styles. The…
Culture
Your A.I. Lover Will Change You
A mother is currently suing Character AI, a company that promotes “AIs that feel alive,” over the suicide of her fourteen-year-old son,…
Business
Meta plans major investment into AI-powered humanoid robots
META Platforms, after pushing into augmented reality and artificial intelligence (AI), has identified its next big bet: AI-powered…