Inside the race to train AI robots how to act human in the real world

Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to ...
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Arc Raiders doesn't AI-generate guns from Youtube videos, Embark clarifies: "that's a research project, and not something that we're using in the game now"

An interview with Embark's executive producer Aleksander Grøndal about the use of generative AI tools and machine learning in ...
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Arc Raiders' AI Voice Controversy Explained

Hype for Arc Raiders continues to build, but a recent controversy regarding the possible use of AI voices has the game in hot ...
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Text-To-Speech Voices & Machine Learning Robots Mean ARC Raiders Has An AI Problem (Or Does It?)

ARC Raiders seems to use text-to-speech voice lines, among other machine learning tech, but the specific development tools ...
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Domestic humanoid robots are not yet in common use despite having existed for 30 years: here’s why

When the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner exceeded two and a half million units sold in 2008, it seemed like the beginning of a new era: one in which robots would populate our homes, taking care of daily ...
Reuters

AI data centre boom spurs robot maker ABB's US sales

ZURICH, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Swiss engineering company ABB (ABBN.S), opens new tab said it is seeing strong customer demand, particularly from a surge in new data centres being built in the U.S. to ...
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Raila Odinga Death: President Ruto's Address to the Nation [FULL TEXT SPEECH]

President William Ruto has mourned the death of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who passed away on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at the age of 80. Speaking during an address at State House, Nairobi ...
IEEE

A Near-Real-Time Processing Ego Speech Filtering Pipeline Designed for Speech Interruption During Human-Robot Interaction

Abstract: With current state-of-the-art (SOTA) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, it is not possible to transcribe overlapping speech audio streams separately. Consequently, when these ASR ...
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Google Introduces Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) Approach that Maps a Spoken Query Directly to an Embedding and Retrieves Information without First Converting Speech to Text

In the traditional cascade modeling approach, automatic speech recognition (ASR) first produces a single text string, which is then passed to retrieval. Small transcription errors can change query ...
The New York Times

Did LeBron James Write for a Communist Paper? No, but China Said He Did.

The People’s Daily newspaper put the star player’s name on an opinion article, an example of the political perils the N.B.A. could face in China. By Mara Hvistendahl and Tania Ganguli Mara Hvistendahl ...