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Humanoid robots have a data problem. China’s ‘training centres’ hope to fix it
The humans controlling the droids have them repeat each task over and over, as a computer system logs their every move Home economics…
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IMDA to co-fund deployment of robots by 500 firms over next 3 years
The authority’s support will focus on improving integration and interoperability Five hundred local enterprises will receive support from…
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Parenthood Has Made Me Detest Robots
You can’t throw a pacifier in American discourse without hitting someone talking about how having kids changed them. From Pete Buttigieg…
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How does Tesla get to US$8.5 trillion value? Robots, robotaxis and hope
How can Tesla become an US$8.5 trillion company? That is the market valuation the electric vehicle maker would have to reach to justify…
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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…
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“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
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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China turns to humanoid robots to support its expanding elderly population
In order to address demographic challenges, China has announced the inclusion of humanoid robots in its elderly care services. The…
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Nvidia Bets Big on Robots
Nvidia’s next target Heading into 2025, Nvidia was facing tough questions about whether the chipmaker central to the artificial…
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Inside the Plan to Teach Robots the Laws of War
The talking heads were the kind of gimmick DARPA would have loved—predictive, creepy, imaginary—but when the agency was founded in 1958,…
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“Babygirl” Never Really Makes a Mess
In November, the reality star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian posted a series of images and videos to her social-media accounts, in which…