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AI companion robot helps some seniors fight loneliness, but others hate it
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/12/ai-companion-robot-helps-some-seniors-fight-loneliness-but-others-hate-it • 3 min
There's limited evidence for health benefits so far; early work suggests no one-size-fits-all.
What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-diplomacy-robots
First it was chess and Go. Now AI can beat us at Diplomacy, the most human of board games. The way it wins offers hope that maybe AI will be a delight.
Working on the Neuralink Robot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gQn-evdsAo
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What's new, Atlas?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRj34o4hN4I
What have you been up to lately, Atlas?
Scientists 3D Print a Complex Robotic Hand With Bones, Tendons, and Ligaments
https://singularityhub.com/2023/11/24/scientists-3d-print-a-complex-robotic-hand-with-bones-tendons-and-ligaments • 4 min
The approach uses machine vision to 3D print structures with multiple materials, from hard, bone-like substances to stuff that's more like soft tissues.
Google AI and robots join forces to build new materials
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03745-5
Tool from Google DeepMind predicts nearly 400,000 stable substances, and an autonomous system learns to make them in the lab.
Do You Love Me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw
Our whole crew got together to celebrate the start of what we hope will be a happier year: Happy New Year from all of us at Boston Dynamics. www.BostonDyna...
Scientists conduct first test of a wireless cosmic ray navigation system
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/scientists-conduct-first-test-of-a-wireless-cosmic-ray-navigation-system • 5 min
System could be used to guide underwater robots or underground autonomous vehicles
High-speed AI drone beats world-champion racers for the first time
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/high-speed-ai-drone-beats-world-champion-racers-for-the-first-time • 4 min
University creates the first autonomous system capable of beating humans at drone racing.
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A storefront for robots
https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai • 20+ min
Selling real things to real people means writing a steady stream of nonsense text that only web crawlers will ever read.
Roboticists Want to Give You a Third Arm
https://spectrum.ieee.org/human-augmentation • 10 min
Unused bandwidth in neurons can be tapped to control extra limbs
35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here…
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/12/27/35-years-ago-isaac-asimov-was-asked-by-the-star-to-predict-the-world-of-2019-here-is-what-he-wrote.html • 13+ min
The famed science fiction writer was wrong about a world government, but pretty close on robots. On computers, though ...
NASA's robotic, self-assembling structures could be the next phase of space construction
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/17/nasas-robotic-self-assembling-structures-could-be-the-next-phase-of-space-construction
Bad news if you want to move to the moon or Mars: housing is a little hard to come by. Fortunately, NASA (as always) is thinking ahead, and has just shown