Moravec‘s Paradox

Highlighting the plastic industry’s infamous track record on recycling, London-based Recycleye says it raised $17 million in new funding led by “deep tech” investor DCVC. The startup claims its recycling-picking robots can identify materials “at an unrivaled 60 frames per second” and sort them more accurately than humans can. Ultimately,…

One could make a very reasonable argument that FRIDA (Framework and Robotics Initiative for Developing Arts) is as much a thought experiment as it is a research project. Certainly it butts up against similar questions around art and creativity as AI projects like DALL-E and ChatGPT — though the question…

Janvic Mateo - The Philippine Star February 5, 2023 | 12:00am Photo provided by De La Salle University shows the prototype of the AGAPAY Exoskeleton, which is designed to account for all the movements of the upper limbs. Photo provided by De La Salle University MANILA, Philippines — De La…

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Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander will now attempt a landing near a region called the Gruithuisen Domes that is the target of a future CLPS mission. Credit: Astrobotic WASHINGTON — NASA and Astrobotic have changed the landing site for the company’s first lunar lander mission shortly before its scheduled launch, moving…

There’s no denying that the robotics startup world has taken a hit during the ongoing economic downturn. Recent numbers prove what we’ve all suspected for some time. But two things are true: 1) The lull is temporary; and 2) While robotics isn’t recession-proof, construction might as well be. This is…

Clarius Mobile Health, which first introduced wireless handheld imaging for medical specialties in 2016, says its third-generation device, HD3, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week, will also help improve MSK ultrasound training. WHY IT MATTERS With clearance from the FDA, the new MSK AI…

Image Credit: State Bar of California Plans to use an AI-powered legal tool named Robot Lawyer to defend a traffic ticket have been dropped after state bars threatened legal action against its use. Joshua Browder, the CEO of DoNotPay and developer of Robot Lawyer, created the tool to help defendants…

Professor LeCun discusses Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning & Self Driving Automobiles! Yann André LeCun is a French computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. He is the Silver Professor of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU. New York,…

Scientists have long known the world is running out of time to hit its international climate targets. Now, artificial intelligence has arrived at a similar conclusion. An innovative new AI study finds that it will take about a decade for humanity to blow past its optimistic goal of limiting global…