Physical Intelligence Is Building a Brain for Robots
Physical Intelligence is building software intended to power robots that can learn a wide range of tasks.6505 0 0 Physical Intelligence Is Building a Brain for Robots Physical Intelligence is building software intended to power robots that can learn a wide range of tasks. 0 0 6479 0 0 OpenAI-Backed Humanoid Maker Gets $100 Million in EQT-Led Round Norwegian AI robotics startup 1X Technologies AS raised $100 million to bring to market its second-generation android robot, NEO, that it says can help humans with everyday domestic tasks. 0 0 6434 0 0 China Wants to Build Advanced Humanoid Robots by 2025 China’s harbored ambitions for years to take the lead in cutting-edge spheres from AI to quantum computing. Now it’s set its sights on yet another realm with sci-fi qualities: lifelike robots. 0 0 6260 0 0 China’s Robots Can’t Do It All. They Need People The push to automate manufacturing is accelerating. Beijing will have to do more for workers to catch up. 0 0 6190 0 0 This Robot Is on a Mission to Eliminate Short Car Trips The Gita “follow” robot aims to replace driving for Americans’ quickest daily errands. But progress has been slow. 0 0 6187 0 0 Meet the Robot Trying to Crack the US Market Americans make about four trips a day, and 35% of them are less than two miles. That’s where the Gita “follow” bot comes in. This 28-lb two-wheeled service robot is on a mission to eliminate short car trips. (Source: Bloomberg) 0 0 6097 0 0 Ambi Robotics Raises Funding for New Kind of Warehouse Robot A startup called Ambi Robotics has raised $32 million to put a new kind of robot into e-commerce warehouses. But first… 0 0 5956 0 0 You Might Be a Robot. This Is Not a Joke. Laws are starting to confuse people and machines. (Who’s the legal “driver” of a self-driving car?) 0 1 4951 0 0 Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots Ten years ago, Amazon introduced the Kindle and established the appeal of reading on a digital device. Four years ago, Jeff Bezos and company rolled out the Echo, prompting millions of people to start talking to a computer. 0 0 4693 0 0 Thanks to Trump, More U.S. Milk Will Be Coming From Robots It wasn’t long ago that cow-milking robots were a novelty in the U.S., but today, automation is showing up on more farms. 0 0 4684 0 0 Robot Delivery Vans Are Here to Take Thousands of Jobs A secretive startup has unveiled its new grocery-getter, one of many automakers that are leaving people out of the equation. 0 0 4670 0 0 Chipmakers Need to Start Serving Their Robot Overlords A new driving force is coming as smartphone growth wanes. 0 0 4638 0 0 Women Face Greater Robot Risk for Job Losses, Davos Report Finds Women are more likely than men to be knocked out of their U.S. jobs by automation in the next eight years, and they’ll find half as many opportunities to land new positions unless there’s a new effort to retrain them. 0 0 4342 0 0 This CEO Sees Robot Taxis and Delivery Cars Coming in 2018 Self-driving vehicles will be ready to roll next year, though the work to make them affordable to individual consumers is still “in the first inning,” according to the CEO of a company working on the technology. 0 0 4206 0 0 Robot Productivity Boon Demands a Little Patience: Eco Pulse Artificial Intelligence may take time to spread – and even longer to show up in official data 0 0 4190 0 0 A $290,000 Robot-Car Is French Startup’s Answer to GM, Waymo Navya Technologies SAS will roll its robot-driven automobiles onto the cobbled streets of Paris in the next few weeks to try and beat behemoths from General Motors Co. to Alphabet Inc. at proving autonomous cars are safe. 0 0 4087 0 0 It’s No Use Honking. The Robot at the Wheel Can’t Hear You As auto accidents go, it wasn’t much: twelve minutes before noon on a cool June day, a Chevrolet Bolt was rear ended as it crawled from a stop light in downtown San Francisco. 0 0 4061 0 0 New Robot Analyst Slaps Sell Rating on Facebook and Google While human analysts are still overwhelmingly bullish on Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc., a new robot analyst at Wells Fargo says it’s time to sell. 0 0 4000 0 0 The Robot Future Won’t Need a Lot More Electricity In automated factories, less power is needed for lights and air conditioning. 0 0 3874 0 0 Yes, robots are replacing workers. But there’s more to the story How robots are used in the workplace has broad implications for the U.S. economy. 0 0 3843 0 0 Xinhua Beefs Up Reporting Team With Robots: Eye on Chinese Media The official Xinhua News Agency has followed the trend of artificial intelligence and added a ROBOT REPORTER to its team recently. The interactive robot with the appearance of a young Chinese woman in traditional dress did a Skype interview this week with Wired Magazine’s Kevin Kelly. Xinhua said th 0 0 3832 0 0 How the Robot Apocalypse Will Go Down Artificial intelligence is like a weapon. Worry about the people wielding it. 0 0 3779 0 0 Inside China’s Plans for World Robot Domination Embracing robotics with the same full-on intensity that made the country a force in high-speed rail and renewable energy. 0 0 3733 0 0 Robots May Help Build Your Next Home and Fill the Labor Gap The future of U.S. homebuilding depends on more people like Cyndicy Yarborough, a 26-year-old former Wal-Mart clerk with no background in construction. 0 0 2664 0 0 Ex-Google Self-Driving Car Engineer Made More Than $120 Million A former Google engineer at the center of a fight over self-driving car technology made more than $120 million, according to a legal filing Monday, highlighting the intense competition among tech companies and carmakers for talent in the nascent sector. 0 0 2654 0 0 The $200,000 Police Bomb Robot Northrop Grumman Remotec, a division of one of the largest military contractors in the country, outfits militaries and over 400 US civilian bomb squads with their Andros robot - a machine capable of assessing and diffusing suspicious packages. (video by Ali Withers, David Nicholson) (Source: Bloomb 0 0 2585 0 0 Don’t Fear Robots: AI’s Impact on Jobs 0 0 2582 0 0 Robot Rides May Force Error-Prone Human Motorists Off Road 0 0 1296 0 0 Midea Gets a Robot Arm The rich premium paid for a stake in Germany's Kuka looks likely to be justified. 0 0 1238 0 0 Three-Quarters of U.S. Drivers Say They’d Cede Wheel to Robot Almost three-quarters of U.S. drivers are eager to replace the daily commute’s drudgery with a self-driving car and 80 percent say they would pay extra to have a robot take the wheel, according to a survey that contradicts other recent studies. 0 0 1228 0 0 Artificial Intelligence Has a ‘Sea of Dudes’ Problem AI software depends on data sets, and data sets have to be created by computer scientists. What happens when most of those researchers are men? 0 0 1194 0 0 Artificial Intelligence Has a ‘Sea of Dudes’ Problem AI software depends on data sets, and data sets have to be created by computer scientists. What happens when most of those researchers are men? 0 0 1169 0 0 The Buddhist Monk Using Age-Old Wisdom to Shape Robotics ZMP may hold IPO as soon as September, person familiar says. 0 0 1157 0 0 Toyota Researcher Sees Cheap Robots Possible by Mass Production The researcher hired by Toyota Motor Corp. to spearhead its robotics and artificial intelligence efforts says the automaker’s production principles can be applied to build affordable helper robots for rapidly aging societies. 0 0 1154 0 0 Humans Strike Back Against Stock Market Robots Machines may be taking over the world, but in at least one corner of the markets humans are beating back the robots. 0 0 1094 0 0 China’s Midea Begins Cash Offer for German Robot Maker Kuka Midea Group Co., China’s biggest appliance manufacturer, began a tender offer to raise its stake in Kuka AG that values the industrial robot maker at 4.6 billion euros ($5.2 billion) and has provoked calls from within the German government for an alternative European investor. 0 0 117 0 0 Robot Bartenders and Virtual Skydiving: Smart Ship Cruises Into Asia Robot bartenders mixing your cocktails, 360-degree views from an observational pod, and having the option of "skydiving" at sea. That's the experience promised by what Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. calls the world's smartest ship. 0 0