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Video Friday: Dark Side Spot Moravec‘s Paradox

Video Friday: Dark Side Spot

Toyota Research Institute Gill Pratt, Toyota’s Chief Scientist and the CEO of TRI, believes that robots have a significant role to play in assisting older people by solving physical problems as well as providing mental and emotional support. With a background in robotics research and five years as a program…
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August 19, 2022
Google uses AI language models to improve home helper robots Moravec‘s Paradox

Google uses AI language models to improve home helper robots

Image: onurdongel / GettyImagesResearchers at Everyday Robots are tapping large-scale language models to help robots avoid misconstruing human communications in ways that might trigger inappropriate or even dangerous actions. Google Research and Alphabet-owned Everyday Robots integrate what they call 'SayCan' (language models with real-world grounding in pre-trained skills) and its largest…
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August 18, 2022
Russian spacewalk cut short by spacesuit power system problem Moravec‘s Paradox

Russian spacewalk cut short by spacesuit power system problem

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev work with the European Robotic Arm Wednesday outside the Nauka lab module. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now Russian ground controllers ordered International Space Station commander Oleg Artemyev back to the airlock after data showed voltage fluctuations in his spacesuit Wednesday, cutting short…
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August 17, 2022
Zelensky warns ‘catastrophe’ at nuke plant would threaten Europe… Moravec‘s Paradox

Zelensky warns ‘catastrophe’ at nuke plant would threaten Europe…

/ Europe Issued on: 16/08/2022 - 05:22 File photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks at a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 28, 2022. © Efrem Lukatsky, AP A "catastrophe" at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine would threaten the whole of Europe, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky…
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August 16, 2022
Artificial intelligence is growing rapidly in China, but there are still wide gaps in industrial application Moravec‘s Paradox

Artificial intelligence is growing rapidly in China, but there are still wide gaps in industrial application

AI orchestras but no AI ultrasounds Last week, Hong Kong Baptist University launched the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) orchestra in a ceremony overseen, via video link, by Hong Kong Chief Executive and former police officer John Lee Ka-chiu (李家超 Lǐ Jiāchāo). The orchestra comprised an AI choir consisting of…
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August 15, 2022