Musk doubles down on promises for Optimus humanoid robots
Elon Musk promises they’ll “genuinely useful humanoid robots” when/if they ever do arrive.
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Researchers build ultralight drone that flies with onboard solar
Read more: Researchers build ultralight drone that flies with onboard solarBizarre design uses a solar-powered motor that’s optimized for weight.
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Here’s How AI Is Changing NASA’s Mars Rover Science
Read more: Here’s How AI Is Changing NASA’s Mars Rover ScienceArtificial intelligence is helping scientists to identify minerals within rocks studied by the Perseverance rover. Some scientists dream of exploring planets with “smart” spacecraft that know exactly what data to look for, where to find it, and how to analyze it. Although making that dream a reality will take time, advances made with NASA’s Perseverance…
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Deep tech VC Sidney Scott explains why he’s closing his firm as this area booms
Read more: Deep tech VC Sidney Scott explains why he’s closing his firm as this area boomsWith increasing competition for what is, essentially, still a small number of hard tech and deep tech deals, Sidney Scott realized it would be a challenge for smaller funds like his. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Amazon retires its Astro for Business security robot after only 7 months
Read more: Amazon retires its Astro for Business security robot after only 7 monthsAmazon has decided to discontinue its Astro for Business device, a security robot for small—and medium-sized businesses, just seven months after launch. In an email sent to customers and employees on Wednesday, provided to TechCrunch, the reason …
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Lightening the load: AI helps exoskeleton work with different strides
Read more: Lightening the load: AI helps exoskeleton work with different stridesA model trained in a virtual environment does remarkably well in the real world.
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MIT’s soft robotic system is designed to pack groceries
Read more: MIT’s soft robotic system is designed to pack groceriesRoboGrocery combines computer vision with a soft robotic gripper to bag a wide range of different items. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Robot cats, dogs and birds are being deployed amid an ‘epidemic of loneliness’
Read more: Robot cats, dogs and birds are being deployed amid an ‘epidemic of loneliness’In the early 1990s, a researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology began work on what would become Paro. More than 30 years after its development, the doe-eyed seal pup remains the best-known example of a thera…
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MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI
Read more: MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AIHe says that the problem is that generative AI is not human or even human-like, and it’s flawed to try and assign human capabilities to it. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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TechCrunch Minute: Beware the smiling robot with living skin
Read more: TechCrunch Minute: Beware the smiling robot with living skinWill robots ever have living, human skin? Researchers have been exploring the question and they’ve come up with some pretty unsettling results. I think it’s fair to say that no one would confuse any of today’s robots, no matter how advanced, with anoth…
