Inside a Fusion Startup’s Insane, Top-Secret Opening Ceremony
So the race is on to engineer an efficient surrounding for fusion. One of Fuse’s ideas is to get a bunch of big capacitors to discharge at once, thus kick-starting …
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AI-Powered Robots Can Be Tricked Into Acts of Violence
In the year or so since large language models hit the big time, researchers have demonstrated numerous ways of tricking them into producing problematic outputs including hateful jokes, malicious code …
The Man Behind Amazon’s Robot Army Wants Everyone to Have an AI-Powered Helper
Unlike other robots, Proxie’s battery can be swapped out to avoid downtime charging. Cobot declined to say how much Proxie costs to buy or lease, but mobile robots often cost …
Inside the Billion-Dollar Startup Bringing AI Into the Physical World
OpenAI is evidently ramping up its own robotics efforts, too. Last week, Caitlin Kalinowski, who previously led the development of virtual and augmented reality headsets at Meta, announced on LinkedIn …
Tesla Optimus bots were remotely operated at Cybercab event – The Mercury News
By Ed Ludlow and David Welch | Bloomberg Tesla Inc. used humans to remotely control some capabilities of its Optimus robot prototypes at a recent event designed to generate investor …
India can lead in the Intelligent Age. Make-in-India must become Make-Smart-in-India
Our world is undergoing a profound transformation with far-reaching consequences for our economic, social and environmental systems. This new era, being called by many as the Intelligent Age, is driven …
Lawson to open convenience stores of the ‘future’ next spring in Tokyo
Lawson and its owners, major trading house Mitsubishi and telecommunications carrier KDDI, said Wednesday they will open convenience stores of the “future” that utilize digital technology in Tokyo next spring. …
Could This Be the Start of Amazon’s Next Robot Revolution?
In 2012, Amazon quietly acquired a robotics startup called Kiva Systems, a move that dramatically improved the efficiency of its ecommerce operations and kickstarted a wider revolution in warehouse automation. …
Robots are starting (good) fires in California
Cody Chiverton has spent the past decade lighting fires. As a former firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service, he participated in dozens of prescribed burns across the American West, in …
Indigenous, affordable, how robot-assisted surgeries are finding takers in smaller Indian cities
Last year, however, he came across a proposal to install a made-in-India surgical robot at one-fourth the price of other imported devices available in the country. The surgeon did not …