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Harnessing wind to manipulate objects remotely

Apr 30, 2024 (SPX)

"Airflow or wind is everywhere in our living environment, moving around objects like pollen, pathogens, droplets, seeds and leaves. Wind has also been actively ...

Financial Times enters ChatGPT content deal

Apr 29, 2024 (AFP)

The deal allows select attributed summaries, quotes and links from the FT's reporting to appear in ChatGPT responses to relevant queries. "This is an important ...

Bionic computing advances flexible robot control

Apr 26, 2024 (SPX)

"We've demonstrated the actuator's capability to autonomously generate diverse dynamics, including rhythmic patterns and chaos," explains Nozomi Akashi of Kyoto...

Why Animals Can Outrun Robots

Apr 26, 2024 (SPX)

An interdisciplinary team, including Drs. Sam Burden, Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram, and Simon Sponberg, studied the performance of running robots by comparing the...

'Harvesting data': Latin American AI startups transform farming

Apr 23, 2024 (AFP)

Now, a new crop of Latin American startups is helping do that with artificial intelligence, promising a farming revolution in agricultural giants like Brazil, t...

MDA Space awarded extended ISS robotics contract

Apr 22, 2024 (SPX)

"Robotics flight controllers are the pilots in the control room who make real-time decisions and plan exactly how robotics on the ISS are utilized and executed ...

New AI initiative aims to enhance industrial robots' adaptability

Apr 22, 2024 (SPX)

This project seeks to overcome current robotic limitations, enhancing adaptability and reliability. "Robots that adjust to their environments, learn from intera...

'Early-stage' AI begins to make waves at China sex toy expo

Apr 20, 2024 (AFP)

China manufactures around 70 percent of the world's sex toys, most of it the "hardware" on display at the fair -- whether that be technicolour tentacled dildos ...

AI a 'fundamental change in the news ecosystem': expert

Apr 20, 2024 (AFP)

A former employee at Yahoo! and BBC News Labs, the British broadcaster's innovation wing, Caswell spoke as industry leaders gathered in the Italian city of Peru...

Microsoft teases lifelike avatar AI tech but gives no release date

Apr 19, 2024 (AFP)

The AI model known as VASA-1, for "visual affective skills," can create an animated video of a person talking, with synchronized lip movements, using just a sin...

Meta releases beefed-up AI models

Apr 19, 2024 (AFP)

Meta AI is smarter and faster due to advances in publicly available Llama 3, the tech titan said in a blog post. "The bottom line is we believe Meta AI is now t...

Japanese AI tool predicts when recruits will quit jobs

Apr 19, 2024 (AFP)

The artificial intelligence tool was developed by Japanese researchers to try and help managers provide targeted support to staff to stop them from quitting. It...

Microsoft to invest $1.5bn in AI firm in UAE, take board seat

Apr 16, 2024 (AFP)

The deal, in which G42 will run its applications and services on Microsoft's Azure platform, comes days after the US giant said it would plough $2.9 billion int...

OpenAI comes to Asia with new office in Tokyo

Apr 15, 2024 (AFP)

Thanks to the stratospheric success of its generative tools that can create text, images and even video, OpenAI has become a leader in the artificial intelligen...

Race for AI isn't zero-sum, says Amazon cloud boss

Apr 14, 2024 (AFP)

"I respectfully disagree" with that viewpoint, said Adam Selipsky, Amazon's cloud chief, in an interview with AFP. Tech giants like Microsoft, Google and Meta h...

SwRI Advances Robotics for In-Space Manufacturing at Annual Space Symposium

Apr 10, 2024 (SPX)

SwRI is crafting solutions that integrate Earth-based industrial robotics with sophisticated automation and simulation to assist clients in crafting new capabil...

Microsoft to invest $2.9 bn in Japan AI push

Apr 10, 2024 (AFP)

The announcement coincides with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's visit to Washington, underscoring Tokyo's commitment to becoming a major AI power. Japan...

Ethical questions abound as wartime AI ramps up

Apr 10, 2024 (AFP)

AI has shown itself to be faster but not necessarily safer or more ethical. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Friday that he was "profoundly disturbed"...

South Korea to invest $7 billion in AI by 2027

Apr 09, 2024 (AFP)

The country is home to Samsung and SK Hynix -- the world's top two makers of memory chips, including the premium high-bandwidth memory (HBM) used in the hardwar...

MDA Space Defines The Next Generation Of Robotics With New MDA Skymaker Product Line

Apr 09, 2024 (SPX)

Derived from peerless Canadarm technology, MDA SKYMAKERTM provides innovative space companies and ventures with access to the world's most flight-proven space r...