Collaborate Disseminate
In episode 15 of “The AI Fix”, Graham learns there’s one W in Mississippi, ChatGPT finds Mark’s G-spot, nobody watches Megalopolis, Alexa is unmasked as a “commie operative”, and our hosts learn that AI will soon need dedicated nuclear reactors.
Gra… Continue reading The AI Fix #15: AI robot butlers and gigawatt banana highways
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScienceAlert: Nobody knows what sleeping mushrooms dream of when their vast mycelial networks flicker and pulse with electrochemical responses akin to those of our own brain cells. But given a chance, what might… Continue reading Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body and Let It Run Wild
Autonomous vehicles are said to be safer than human drivers – but would you trust a mushroom behind the wheel? A new kind of “biohybrid” robot moves in response to signals from the nervous system of a fungus.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, Technolo… Continue reading Fungus learns to drive in “biohybrid” robots
When you think of tracked robots, you might think of bomb disposal robots or others used in military applications. You probably haven’t seen anything quite like this, however—it’s a “reconfigurable …read more Continue reading Reconfigurable Tracked Robot Has Some Neat Flexible Abilities
In episode 13 of “The AI Fix””, meat avatar Cluley learns that AI doesn’t pose an existential threat to humanity and tells meat avatar Stockley how cybersex is about to get very, very weird. Our hosts also learn that men lie on their dating profiles, h… Continue reading The AI Fix #13: ChatGPT runs for mayor, and should we stop killer robots?
Here’s the thing about robots. It’s hard for them to figure out where to go or what they should be doing if they don’t know where they are. Giving them …read more Continue reading Robots Collaborate To Localize Themselves Precisely
A team at Google has spent a lot of time recently playing table tennis, purportedly only for science. Their goal was to see whether they could construct a robot which …read more Continue reading Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: In a newly published paper titled “Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis,” Google’s DeepMind Robotics team is showcasing its own work on the game. The researchers have effectively deve… Continue reading Google DeepMind Develops a ‘Solidly Amateur’ Table Tennis Robot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Unlike Tesla, which hopes to develop its own bipedal ‘bot to work on its production line sometime next year, BMW has brought in a robot from Figure AI. The Figure 02 robot has hands with sixteen de… Continue reading Figure AI’s Humanoid Robot Helped Assemble BMWs At US Factory
We’re already seeing humanoid robots entering the workplace in limited trials, but when will we be able to kick back and let the service droid take care of household chores? A new video from Germany’s Neura Robotics shows this dream is inching ever clo… Continue reading Video: Humanoid housebot gets stuck into domestic chores