Robots & AI

Alphabet-backed Waymo is leading the robotaxi revolution, but Tesla’s new Cybercab could change everything.

AI chatbots may have certain advantages when roleplaying as our friends. They may also come with downsides that make our loneliness worse.

Flexport is using generative AI to read documents, talk to truckers, and create a “knowledge agent” that’s an expert in shipping.

Will society will use this moment of AI breakthroughs to advance equity or exacerbate disparities? Five experts weigh in.

Mark Finlayson and Kentaro Toyama and Daniel Acuña and Casey Greene and Lynne Parker

Last year saw breakthroughs from AI tools such as ChatGPT, DeepMind, and DALL-E, which generate text and code.

Kay Firth-Butterfield | World Economic Forum

More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.

Orly Lobel

The FDA has cleared Wandercraft's self-balancing, hands-free Atalante exoskeleton for use during stroke rehab.

AI technology could transform how growers protect their harvests, by detecting plant diseases very early on.

Saugat Bolakhe | Knowable Magazine

French startup Meropy has developed an agricultural robot that can autonomously inspect crops from above and below.

Microsoft has unveiled VALL-E, a voice-cloning AI that only needs a 3-second sample to simulate a speaker’s voice with remarkable accuracy.

Can an astrophysicist get ChatGPT to learn and assimilate new information and give correct answers where it gave confident but false ones?

Ethan Siegel

Language models could transform the ways we engage with search engines.

Donut company Krispy Kreme is investing in automated systems to take over functions currently completed by human workers.

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