AI researchers ’embodied’ an LLM into a robot – and it started channeling Robin Williams

AI researchers at Andon Labs embedded various LLMs in a vacuum robot to test how ready they were to be embodied. And hilarity ...

Autonomous Robots in the Grocery Warehouse

Robotics company Symbotic is trying to change the food distribution industry. The company has developed a system to automate ...
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7 ‘secret’ systems that make humanoid robots think, walk and work like humans

Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

The “Humanity” Hack: How One MIT Scientist Is Rewiring Robots To Beat Big Tech

MIT’s Daniela Rus is redefining robotics with empathy leading CSAIL and Liquid AI recent $250m series A to build technology ...
Scientific American

How One Mom Built an AI Tutor for Her Dyslexic Son

Gajilan, who has worked at Reuters for more than 14 years and was then digital news director, had been reading about artificial intelligence and custom GPTs—tailored AI models that users could ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models

YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway, and ...

A New Startup Wants to Edit Human Embryos

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...
Interesting Engineering

Fabric muscles thinner than hair could reshape wearable robotics design

South Korean researchers develop fabric muscles for lightweight wearable robots that move naturally with the human body.