Items tagged with Humanoid
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Alan Velasco - Wed, Sep 11, 2024
Robotics company 1X has announced that its NEO Beta line of humanoid robots will be rolling out to a select group of households as it looks to put its prototype robot through its paces. Unlike most other robots that are designed to be used...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Aug 27, 2024
Robotics manufacturer Unitree has publicly announced the availability of doomsday humanoid robots for less than what it takes to buy the cheapest car in the U.S. That's for the base conscript model of course. Buyers will have to shore up...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Jun 26, 2024
A group of Japanese scientists have conjured up a way to attach living skin to robot faces to make them more lifelike. The skin equivalent is a “living skin model composed of cells and extracellular matrix” which is said to be “an ideal...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Mar 15, 2024
Attention all humans: Figure AI, in collaboration with OpenAI, is well on its way to developing a humanoid robot capable of taking over the world. OK, while it may not be ready to take over the world (yet) the company’s Figure 01 robot...
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Tim Sweezy - Sat, Aug 19, 2023
Dire warnings from leaders in the area of AI technology continue to be voiced around the world. The latest comes from Jaan Tallinn, who founded two organizations, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Future of...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Jul 20, 2023
A new study finds that robots can learn from other robots, much the same as humans learn from one another. The paper takes a deep dive into a new approach to growing an area of machine learning (ML) research known as Lifelong Learning...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Jul 17, 2023
Intel Capital has made a $9 million equity investment into Figure, an AI Robotics company building general-purpose humanoid robots. Today's announcement follows the Figure 01 robot taking its first steps, among other technical...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Jul 11, 2023
The United Nations (UN) held a press conference with the intent of showcasing the future of artificial intelligence by allowing reporters to ask a group of AI robots questions. However, some of the answers from the nine robots on the panel...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Dec 03, 2021
Robots have long brought both amazement and fear into our imagination,and Hollywood has capitalized on those emotions with futuristic movies about robots taking over the world. Now a robotics company in the UK is eliciting both of those...
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Shawn Oliver - Tue, Mar 17, 2009
Hard to believe, but we think we just found the perfect date for the Robotic Einstein that was unveiled earlier this year at TED. Einstein, meet HRP-4C. (Psst... you can call her Harley.) The "female" humanoid was recently introduced by a team of Japanese scientists at Tsukuba City, and while...
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