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Amazon announced plans to significantly ramp up its Prime Air drone delivery service, aiming for airborne deliveries in nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of this year. The drones can transport items weighing fi…
LG CNS will deploy four-legged security robots at Tower Palace, a luxury residential complex in southern Seoul, after signing a memorandum of understanding with Tower PMC, a property management company. The robots will u…
At the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Wednesday, more than 300 mostly domestic companies exhibited over 2,000 products and launched 150 new items, signaling a shift from staged demos to real commercial deployment i…
Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing said at the World Robot Conference in Beijing that humanoid robots are nearing a 'ChatGPT moment' where they can handle unfamiliar environments via voice or text commands, targeting 80% task suc…
LG CNS will deploy a four-legged security robot at Tower Palace in southern Seoul, marking the first residential use of its PhysicalWorks AI platform. The company signed an agreement with property manager Tower PMC to ru…
A developer shares detailed notes on Scott Young's book 'Ultralearning', outlining strategies for self-directed learning. The notes cover defining clear goals, breaking down subjects into concepts, facts, and procedures,…
Chinese humanoid robot makers are selling machines to government-backed training centres, which then sell the training data back to the manufacturers, according to the Financial Times. This circular arrangement inflates …
China's Mech-Mind Robotics, a developer of 3D cameras and AI software for robots, is set to open its order book for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise about US$300 million, up from a US$200 million target a year ago, with …
The World Humanoid Games events reveal a market map for humanoid robots, indicating where they will be commercialized first, according to a Forbes analysis by senior contributor John Koetsier. The games showcase the curr…
Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, devised a cipher called Memoria Technica to help him remember numbers by encoding digits as consonants within memorable phrases, as described in a 1878 pamphlet. The articl…
A new paper by researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation finds that global fertility rates have fallen below replacement level, with the average number of births per woman …
Sanja Fidler, former vice president of AI research at NVIDIA, launched Veeda AI on Wednesday with Zan Gojcic and Huan Ling to build world models that train robots in simulated physical environments. The startup aims to p…
Virginia, which spent twenty years courting data centers with tax breaks and fast-tracked zoning, became the first U.S. state to tax the electricity those centers use, a reversal that Techstrong's special report "The AI …
Generalist AI, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup founded by former Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics engineers, demonstrated robots that learn new tasks from short instructional videos without task-specific trai…
Unitree, the world's largest humanoid robot maker, surged more than 600% on its Shanghai stock market debut Wednesday, with shares hitting 1,100 yuan ($120.39) before paring gains to nearly 500%. The company, officially …
China's humanoid robot industry is shifting from viral demonstrations to proving economic viability, with manufacturers like Unitree, UBTech, and Zhiyuan Robotics under pressure to show real-world job performance. Reuter…
Amazon announced on Tuesday that its Prime Air drone delivery service will expand to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of 2026, a sixfold increase from its current footprint, bringing drone deliveries to tens o…
NVIDIA released Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4B omni-model with a 2B Nemotron-based reasoner, designed for on-device robot control on Jetson Thor. Post-trained on the nvidia/Cosmos3-DROID dataset (76k trajectories, ~350 hours across…
Roboflow will host the Visual Intelligence Summit on October 22 in San Francisco, a one-day event for builders of AI that sees and acts in the physical world, including model builders, chip makers, robotics founders, and…
Sanja Fidler, former leader of Nvidia's Toronto AI lab, has launched Veeda AI, a startup backed by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, to develop world models for robotics. The company aims to improve how robots intera…