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Apple is developing personal robots for your home, Bloomberg says

4Apr

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Apple is developing personal robots for your home, Bloomberg says

Apple is still on the hunt for the next revolutionary product to help it remain dominant in the market and to serve as new sources of revenue after abandoning its plans to develop an electric vehicle of its own. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, one of the areas the company is exploring is personal robotics. It reportedly started looking into robots and electric vehicles at the same time, with the hopes of developing a machine that doesn't need human intervention.While Apple's robotics projects are still in the very early stages, Bloomberg said it had already started working on a mobile robot that can follow users around their home and had already developed a table-top device that uses a robot to move a screen around. The idea behind the latter is to have a machine that can mimic head...

Holiday Shopping Can Be Easier With AI Tools. Sort Of.

24Nov

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Holiday Shopping Can Be Easier With AI Tools. Sort Of.

Listen to article(1 minute)Artificial intelligence could upend the way we shop for loved ones around the holidays. It’s just not ready to do everything yet.A third of people say they plan to use ChatGPT or some other generative AI while holiday shopping this year, according to a September analytics survey by Adobe. Those surveyed said they wanted AI to surface good deals, brand recommendations and gift alternatives.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Stacking Boxes? Treating Cancer? AI Needs to Learn Physics First

28Oct

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Stacking Boxes? Treating Cancer? AI Needs to Learn Physics First

Artificial intelligence has dazzled the world in the past year, largely because of large language models like ChatGPT that seemingly converse with users. But this kind of AI isn’t great at tackling hard problems in robotics, science and engineering.To do this, AI needs to learn physics.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

28Oct

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Stacking Boxes? Treating Cancer? AI Needs to Learn Physics First

Artificial intelligence has dazzled the world in the past year, largely because of large language models like ChatGPT that seemingly converse with users. But this kind of AI isn’t great at tackling hard problems in robotics, science and engineering.To do this, AI needs to learn physics.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

FedEx’s New Robot Loads Delivery Trucks Like It’s Playing 3D Tetris

28Sep

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FedEx’s New Robot Loads Delivery Trucks Like It’s Playing 3D Tetris

“In the last year or two, people have taken advances in AI and machine learning and said ‘we can make a real business case here, whether it’s lowering costs or improving efficiency or whatever,” says Matthew Johnson-Roberson, director of the robotics institute at Carnegie Mellon University.Johnson-Roberson says years of investment in areas like self-driving vehicles, combined with a steady cadence of advances in AI, will allow robots to creep into more workplaces. “My hope is that we’re just at the beginning of a coming wave in commercial robotics.”Dexterity’s AI software uses data from cameras and lidar sensors to perceive packages and plan how to stack them. Courtesy of DexterityThe FedEx robot was built for the company by Dexterity, a startup based in Redwood City, California, that spe...

California’s Governor Gavin Newsom Vetoes State Ban on Driverless Trucks

23Sep

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California’s Governor Gavin Newsom Vetoes State Ban on Driverless Trucks

California governor Gavin Newsom worked late last night, vetoing a law that would have banned self-driving trucks without a human aboard from state roads until the early 2030s. State lawmakers had voted through the law with wide margins, backed by unions that argued autonomous trucks are a safety risk and threaten jobs.The bill would have seen California, which in 2012 became the first state to clear a regulatory path for autonomous vehicles, turn against self-driving technology just as driverless taxis are starting to serve the public. Autonomous truck developers now hope the freight-heavy state—home to two of the largest US ports—will one day become a critical link in an autonomous trucking network spanning the US.Companies developing the technology say it will save freight shippers mon...