Robots & AI

AI researchers successfully trained a GPT-4-based agent, dubbed the MM-Navigator, to “buy” products on Amazon.

A new 3D-printing technique, vision-controlled-jetting, can be used to create a robotic hand, complete with bones, ligaments, and tendons.

Looking at a face without a life.

Jonny Thomson

A highly expressive new Disney robot developed in a fraction of the time it usually takes could be the first of many expressive bots to come.

Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with it.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

Lumin Fitness's first-of-its-kind smart gym in Texas features AI trainers, motion-tracking sensors, and “gamified” classes.

Chipotle is testing a new robot that makes burrito bowls and salads under the same table where employees fill orders.

AI systems assume humans are always certain. Teaching them to anticipate and understand uncertainty may help them reduce human error.

Kevin Dickinson

New AI tools are increasingly part of creative production, and are scoring surprisingly high in creative thinking tests.

Erik Guzik

Large language models have been trained on massive amounts of “natural” human language — just like us. Does this make the robots part human?

Brendan H. O’Connor

OpenAI is rolling out new features that let subscribers talk to ChatGPT and show it pictures, enabling more intuitive interactions.

AI-based weather forecasting models developed by Google, Nvidia, and Huawei accurately predicted where Hurricane Lee would make landfall.

A new text-to-speech system developed by Microsoft and MIT was used to create nearly 5,000 audiobooks for Project Gutenberg.

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