While still not entirely common, rolling robots have been delivering goods to local customers for some time, and drones have been transporting packages overhead. Now, Serve Robotics and Wing Aviation are set to combine these two delivery methods. Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has been transporting small packages by air since at […]
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Picture tidying up a cluttered kitchen, beginning with a counter scattered with sauce packets. If your aim is to clean the counter, you might gather all the packets at once. But if you want to separate the mustard packets first, you’d sort them by type. And if you were specifically looking for Grey Poupon mustard,
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The first statistically significant findings are in: Large Language Model (LLM) AIs are not only capable of generating expert-level scientific research ideas, but their ideas are also deemed more innovative and exciting than those of human experts, according to expert evaluations. Recent advancements in LLMs have sparked enthusiasm among researchers about their potential to transform
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In February, Norway’s 1X showcased its progress with Eve, a pick-and-place workplace humanoid. Now, the OpenAI-backed company has released video footage of its newest prototype, a bipedal butlerbot called Neo Beta. Eve doesn’t walk on two legs but moves on wheels at speeds up to 9 mph (14.5 km/h). Instead of human-like hands, it uses
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Autonomous vehicles are often considered safer than human drivers, but would you feel comfortable with a mushroom in control? A new type of “biohybrid” robot is designed to move based on signals from a fungus’s nervous system. A few decades of human engineering are no match for billions of years of evolution, so instead of
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Imagine you’re injured on a remote mountain trail and have contacted emergency services. If Italian research is successful, a small humanoid robot with a jetpack might be the first responder to reach you. This project, developed by the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence group at the Italian Institute of Technology (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia), is focused
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Just a few months after Chinese startup Astribot shared stunning video footage of its humanoid assistant, the company has now released a launch video for the S1. The new footage features the bot making waffles, feeding the cat, serving tea, and shooting hoops. When the S1 was initially unveiled in April, we questioned why the
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Google used extensive data to train a table-tennis-playing robot to compete against humans and improve over time. The results are impressive, showcasing significant advancements in robotic speed and dexterity, and the robot’s performance looks quite entertaining. “Reaching human-level speed and performance in real-world tasks is a key goal for the robotics research community.” This is
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California-based robotics company Figure has announced its second-generation humanoid robot. Initially targeting commercial production lines, the company promises that a bipedal butler for home use will be available soon. Figure was established in 2022 by entrepreneur Brett Adcock, known for Vettery and Archer Aviation, with the goal of introducing a “commercially viable general-purpose humanoid robot.”
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Researchers have created prototype robot bugs equipped with sensors that replicate biological digestive systems to generate energy, use a Janus interface for a continuous nutrient supply, and glide across water like water striders. In 2017, DARPA introduced a program to develop and deploy thousands of floating sensors to collect environmental data, including ocean temperature, sea
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