Moravec‘s Paradox

News Trucks Freightliner, Western Star buyers now have option for factory... Western Star 49X trucks will be available with a factory installed Lytx dual camera system beginning in 2023. Western Star Buyers of Daimler Truck North America (DTNA) trucks will soon have the opportunity to order factory-installed dual camera modules…

Biren Technology believes its AI chips produced by TSMC are not covered by the sanctions imposed by US One of China’s most promising chip designers has already navigated through the Biden administration’s export restrictions and concluded it will be able to continue tapping Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to produce its advanced…

When Curt Garner became Chipotle’s first CIO in 2015, the only technology used for online restaurant ordering was, “believe it or not,” a fax machine, he says. Seven years later, the Newport Beach, Calif.-based company is piloting a system with a robotic arm dubbed “Chippy” that prepares the fast-casual chain’s…

Andy MacDonald / Stuff A new pill checking robot a first for Taranaki and one of only a few in New Zealand. While many businesses struggle with staff shortages, a Taranaki pharmacy has invested more than $250,000 in robots to free their staff up from packaging prescriptions. At the start…

A neural network forms the basis of many modern artificial intelligence set-ups, and now the concept has been applied to a purely mechanical calculating machine Technology 19 October 2022 By Matthew Sparkes A mechanical neural network built from beams of variable stiffness Lee et al., Sci. Robot. 7, eabq7278 (2022)…

DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program has had several off road races. Experiment 1 took place March-April 2022 on six courses of combat-relevant terrain. The teams did more than 40 autonomous runs of about 2 miles each and reached speeds just under 20 miles per hour.…

If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Alas, poor Bastion! I knew him, Torbjorn Robot damage hero Bastion has been unplayable in Overwatch 2 for the past week due to some unfortunate shenanigans with his artillery ultimate.…

A Twitter post featuring a video of a robot dog firing a gun that’s racked up nearly 120,000 likes since July. Videos of Ukrainian soldiers apparently modifying off-the-shelf drones to airdrop weapons. An art project featuring Spot, the Boston Dynamics robot most known for viral dancing videos, outfitted with a…

When it comes to self-driving cars, there are still plenty of concerns ranging from safety and technology to price and availability. But one robotaxi company wants potential riders to imagine what switching to self-driving cars might look like as it readies to drive around more cities’ streets. As it gets…

According to a report by the Intercept published Monday, an Oakland police spokesperson said that despite objections from a civilian oversight board, the department still has its sights on using said robots. The police department needs permission from a "governing body," per California law, to use military-grade percussion-activated non-electric (or PAN)…