One slice through rubber bands may pave a new pathway for space surgeons. A robot on the International Space Station (ISS), remote-controlled by a big team on Earth, simulated surgical cuts on Feb. 10 …
Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
In restaurants around the world, from Shanghai to New York, robots are cooking meals. They make burgers and dosas, pizzas and stir-fries, in much the same way robots have made other things for the …
Boston Dynamics founder shares vision for future of robotics and AI
Raibert traced his fascination with building robots to a seemingly ordinary sight: a disassembled robotic arm he encountered in 1974. That fragmented image ignited a burning ambition. Seeing the …
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Top 5 robotics trends for 2024, according to the IFR
The International Federation of Robotics, or IFR, today listed its picks for the top five global robotics trends of this year. The Frankfurt, Germany-based organization attributed growing demand for …
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Robotics investments top $749M in December 2023
Robotics companies raised $749 million in December 2023 as a result of 41 investments. You can see each investment in the table below or a PDF version here. Robotics investments reached about $12.9 …
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An astronaut controls a robotic dog from orbit
Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt took control of a series of robots in Germany while on board the International Space Station, zipping around the Earth at 28,000 kilometers per hour (17,500 mph.) …
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Emotionally expressive ChatGPT-powered AI robots enhance human collaboration, study finds
In a new study published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, researchers have demonstrated that robots equipped with the ability to express emotions in real-time during interactions with humans are …
Team designs robots to help with human habitation in space
In the coming decades, NASA plans to send human crews back to the moon, build a space station in lunar orbit, establish a permanent base on the lunar surface, and—hopefully—send astronauts to …
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Microsoft and OpenAI are in talks to inject $500 million into humanoid robotics startup Figure AI
Microsoft and OpenAI are said to be exploring options to invest up to $500 million in a humanoid robotics startup, Bloomberg reported. The tech heavyweights are in talks with Figure AI, which wants to …
Meta’s OK-Robot performs zero-shot pick-and-drop in unseen environments
There have been many advances in vision-language models (VLM) that can match natural language queries to objects in a visual scene. And researchers are experimenting with how these models can be …
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