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Samsung, Nvidia are investing $35 million combined in THIS robotics startup. Here’s why

Robotics software startup Skild AI Incorporated has drawn investments from MNC Samsung Electronics and chips major Nvidia Corporation, totalling $35 million, as both...

The Reason Murderbot’s Tone Feels Off

Tone, then, becomes the issue. Anyone who read All Systems Red, or any of Wells’ subsequent stories or novels, read Murderbot’s acerbic wit...

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...

2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker

Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of...

Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don’t Have to

On the morning of Christmas Eve 2016, residents of a house in Fraser, Michigan, heard a curious pop, pop, popping sound coming from...

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....

Hugging Face Acquires Pollen Robotics to Unleash Open Source AI Robots

Lapeyre says selling humanoid robots remains challenging, because the use cases are unclear and the systems are still unreliable—though some companies are starting...

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...

Nvidia’s ‘Cosmos’ AI Helps Humanoid Robots Navigate the World

Nvidia announced today it’s releasing a family of foundational AI models called Cosmos that can be used to train humanoids, industrial robots, and...

Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality

It’s an interesting idea, and it is fun to see the idea of an AI agent explored within the relatively benign realm of...