Robots & AI

A stylized digital illustration of a hand wearing a futuristic SIMA glove, manipulating a ghostly image of a game controller against a dark, gradient background.

Why AI playing video games is a big deal

Google’s SIMA can follow human instructions to play 3D video games. Researchers hopes the platform can one day help AI navigate real-world environments.

Kevin Dickinson

A high-tech setup with robotic arms and cameras digitally scanning the Herculaneum scrolls in a library.

“Bionic eye” discovers Plato’s final resting place

Plato’s final resting place has been identified thanks to a “bionic eye” built to read the Herculaneum scrolls.

Kristin Houser

A man wearing a gray beanie, white AI glasses, and a green puffer jacket smiles subtly against a light brown background.

How Brilliant Labs CEO is creating a “symbiosis of humanity and artificial intelligence”

CEO Bobak Tavangar discusses the philosophy behind Brilliant’s latest device, Frame, and his vision for the future of AI.

Kevin Dickinson

Meta’s AI assistant just got a major upgrade — here’s how you can use it

Meta has upgraded its AI assistant, Meta AI, with a new LLM (Llama 3) and made it available in far more places.

Kristin Houser

A Boston Dynamics Atlas robot with a human-like torso and glowing circular face in a high-tech industrial setting.

Robotics

Boston Dynamics retires dancing Atlas robot — and debuts its electric replacement

A day after retiring its hydraulic Atlas robot, Boston Dynamics released a video debuting its all-electric, workplace-ready replacement.

Kristin Houser

A colorful, textured 3D AI brain model centered on a grid background with elliptical lines in black and blue encircling it.

Neurodiversity

Why a neurodivergent team will be a golden asset in the AI workplace

Since AI is chained to linear reasoning, workplaces that embrace it will do well to have neurodivergent colleagues who reason more creatively.

Maureen Dunne

Abstract digital artwork depicting a data center

OpenAI and Microsoft are reportedly planning a $100B supercomputer

Microsoft is reportedly planning to build a $100 billion data center and supercomputer, called "Stargate," for OpenAI.

Kristin Houser

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Can we stop AI hallucinations? And do we even want to?

“Making stuff up” and “being creative” may be two sides of the same coin — but you have to be able to tell the difference.

Sascha Brodsky

A bright collage featuring AI-generated images of 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' by Johannes Vermeer in the style of Andy Warhol's screenprints.

When AI prompts result in copyright violations, who has to pay?

Who is responsible for copyright violations when they're produced by generative AI? The technology is outpacing the law.

Anjana Susarla

Set of playing cards from the deep mind game set, featuring different shapes, colors, and patterns.

Google’s Deep Mind AI can help engineers predict “catastrophic failure”

How vulnerable is the electrical grid to a malicious attacker who destroys select substations? Google's Deep Mind can help predict the answer.

John Edward McCarthy

Embodied AI industrial robot arm conducting a sorting task with various objects.

Does AI need a “body” to become truly intelligent? Meta researchers think so.

We’re finally starting to see what can happen when we put an advanced AI “brain” in a state-of-the-art robot “body” — and it’s remarkable.

Kristin Houser

two hands toasting with beer mugs. One hand and mug has been replaced by streaming digital binary code

AI “tastes” beer — then tells brewers how to make it better

An AI that can predict how to improve the taste of a beer could help brewers develop the next beloved brew.

Kristin Houser

A bipedal robot walking through a ditch in a forested area, stirring up dust as it moves.

Robotics

Bipedal robot takes a beating, keeps on hiking

LimX Dynamics’s bipedal robot, P1, can keep its footing, even when traversing rough terrain unlike any it’s seen before.

Kristin Houser

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