Robots & AI

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

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

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

Maureen Dunne

The startup Cappella has developed an app that translates baby cries and informs parents what is wrong alongside helpful suggestions.

A new biohybrid computer combining a “brain organoid” and a traditional AI was able to perform speech recognition.

The AI robots making burgers and fries at CaliExpress could help the restaurant industry address its persistent labor shortage.

Meta has unveiled Seamless, a language translation AI that can quickly translate speech while preserving the original tone and emotion.

Google's AI GNoME has predicted 2.2 million novel inorganic crystal structures. If synthesized in labs, they may pave the way for new technologies.

In the largest study yet of deep neural networks trained to perform auditory tasks, researchers found surprising similarities to human hearing.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

AI chatbots might not be coming for your job after all, but AI fluency, the skill to understand and work with AI, will soon be essential.

Sandra Peter and Kai Riemer

Pop artist Grimes and Silicon Valley startup Curio have created an AI toy that can understand and talk to kids.

Rodney Brooks, co-founder of iRobot, kicks off a symposium on the promise and pitfalls of increasingly powerful AI tools like ChatGPT.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

The biggest problem with AI right now might not be it defying humans but bending its answers to make us happy.

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