Nvidia is entering the humanoid robotics field with its new foundation model, Project GR00T. The company announced the artificial intelligence (AI) system at its developer conference this week, saying that it is versatile enough to handle a multitude of tasks, including generating text to produce videos and images. Project GR00T (Generalist Robot 00 Technology) is designed to enable …
Their teachers may fret about cheating, but students as young as 15 are seizing on ChatGPT and similar applications to solve problems and have fun. More than a year after ChatGPT’s surprise launch thrust artificial intelligence into public view, many educators and policymakers still fear that students will primarily use the technology for cheating. An …
Jeff Bezos. ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images Jeff Bezos, Nvidia Corp. and other big technology names are investing in a business that’s developing human-like robots, according to people with knowledge of the situation, part of a scramble to find new applications for artificial intelligence. The startup Figure AI Inc. — also backed by OpenAI and …
Spot the robot dog performs with a model at Paris Fashion Week Francois Durand/Getty Images The vast majority of robots have never made it out of their laboratories, but there were plenty of signs in 2023 that robots are beginning to have their moment in the sun. These photos showcase some of the most eye-catching …
A little more than a year ago, the world seemed to wake up to the promise and dangers of artificial intelligence when OpenAI released ChatGPT, an application that enables users to converse with a computer in a singularly human way. Within five days, the chatbot had a million users. Within two months, it was logging …
VectorPortal/CreativeCommons A robot crushed a man to death after apparently mistaking him for a box, South Korean media reported. The tragedy occurred on Wednesday evening local time at a vegetable sorting facility in South Gyeongsang province about 150 miles south of Seoul, according to the BBC. The industrial robot is designed to lift boxes of …
Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot has already impressed us with its astonishing agility, but now it can make a pretty good tour guide, too. Keen to explore how generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot can be used with its robot dog, the company’s clever engineers recently decided to create a tour guide using the technology. …
A Starship Technologies robot on a delivery run. Customers place an order via an app and the robot delivers it inside a secure compartment. Starship Technologies A bomb threat involving wheel-based delivery robots at an Oregon State University campus has turned out to be a prank following the reported arrest of a suspect. Officials at …
Amazon Amazon says its warehouses now deploy more than 750,000 robots, most of them robotic arms or wheel-based machines designed for repetitive jobs to free up employees for other tasks. But Amazon’s latest deployment may have some warehouse workers looking over their shoulders as this particular contraption looks and moves more like them. Undergoing testing …
We first reported on Japan’s slightly bizarre “Monster Wolf” robot wolf a couple of years ago. The odd-looking contraption — complete with glowing red eyes and protruding fangs — was first installed on the outskirts of a town in the northern island of Hokkaido to frighten away bears that were entering the community in search …