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Nvidia, Meet AMD, Your New Competition For Humanoid Robot Brains
This Phantom humanoid robot by Foundation is working in a factory. Some of them, however, will be working in military applications if the company's plans come to fruition. Foundation just announced that new Phantoms will be powered by AMD chips.
The robot byline is quietly disappearing
The most obvious use of generative AI is writing. It's right there in the name—large language models (LLMs) are all about reading, organizing, analyzing, and conjuring words—which is exactly why many in the journalism profession have…
Would You Bring A Dead Loved One Back As An AI Robot?
Ultra-realistic humanoid robots could soon recreate the faces, voices and behavior of real people, including loved ones who have died. Would you bring someone you love back from the dead as a robot? It may sound like the premise of a particularly…
Tesla Stock Falls After Elon Musk Frets Over the Difficulty of Building Robots
Tesla's stock price plunged 14% on Thursday after the car company reported negative free cash flow of $1.1 billion despite revenue rising 26% from a year earlier. CEO Elon Musk sounded rather odd on the earnings call Wednesday evening, especially…
US eyes ban on Chinese humanoid robots as US-China tech rivalry intensifies
US scrutiny of Chinese technology has expanded to a new frontier, as lawmakers in Washington advance defence legislation prohibiting the military from deploying Chinese-made humanoid robots. The US House of Representatives has passed the National…
Alibaba unit says 5-in-1 AI gives robots unified brain, body
Alibaba Group Holding's mapping unit has unveiled an upgrade to what it calls the world's first technology framework that unites a robot's “feet, hands, brains, central nerves and motor nerves” into a single system. Amap's ABot system…
Travis Kalanick's robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z
Travis Kalanick's robotics company, Atoms, has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ben Horowitz will join the company's board following the investment. Bain Capital, Fifth Wall, and others participated in the round.
AI builds virtual homes where robots learn from their mistakes
Ask a robot to put a coffee mug in the cabinet, and you quickly see how complicated an ordinary chore can become. You know where the mug belongs. You can step around a chair, avoid the clutter on the counter and open the right cabinet without…
Black Forest Labs Unveils First Model for Robotics in Shift to Physical AI
Black Forest Labs, a German artificial intelligence research lab, is trialing its first model that can be used in robotics as the company expands beyond photorealistic image generation into the fast-growing field of physical AI. The Flux 3 model…
Tesla's profits slide despite growing revenue as it pivots to robotics and AI
Tesla reported its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday, disclosing far lower profits than expected. The company's already beleaguered stock, which had fallen around 14% this year to date, dipped further following the earnings report. Elon Musk's…
A better future rather than faster robots: 'Sustainable Robotics' as a new academic field
Professor Sukho Song of the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at DGIST has proposed 'Sustainability Robotics,' a new academic field that evaluates robots not only in terms of their technical performance but also their…
Jensen Huang Turns to Japan's Robots for Nvidia's Next Growth Engine
Nvidia built its empire on chips powering generative A.I., and that engine is still surging. The company posted a record $81.6 billion in quarterly revenue, up 85 percent year over year. But with a $5 trillion valuation that prices in years of…
Deutsche Bank: Humanoid Robot Market Accelerates Globally As China Ramps Production
The latest ' Humanoid Robot Pulse ' report from Deutsche Bank states that the global humanoid robot market is accelerating, with China, unsurprisingly, leading the race. 'The humanoid robot market is accelerating globally. China is leading in…
Tesla's push into AI and robotics is proving costly
Tesla's massive investments in humanoid robots, self-driving cars and AI chips are hurting profits, but the company says it'll all pay off down the line. Why it matters: CEO Elon Musk indicated he's 'never been more optimistic about the future,'…
Robot launches to boost satellites | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A two-armed space robot blasted off on a private salvage operation Tuesday to slap life-extending rocket packs on old satellites running low on fuel thousands of miles up. It's the second satellite-saving mission to launch…
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