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.

“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

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

Anjana Susarla

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

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.

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

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

The fast-growing coaching industry is being disrupted by generative AI, which excels at “performance coaching.”

Martin SFP Bryant

A new tool for designing antibodies relies on the same kind of tech underpinning DALL-E and other image-generating AIs.

German automaker Mercedes-Benz is deploying Apptronik’s Apollo robots at a manufacturing plant in Hungary.

Autonomous racing is a testbed where competition spurs innovation and AI-controlled cars chart a course toward safer autonomous vehicles.

Madhur Behl

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