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It's finally Amazon Prime Day 2022, meaning it's time to save on home and kitchen goods. The best Amazon Prime Day vacuum deals (and robot vacuum deals) of the year are ready for the taking—not to mention amazing sales on clothing, fitness, home, and tech products. Today and tomorrow, you…

“I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person,” wrote LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) in an “interview” conducted by engineer Blake Lemoine and one of his colleagues. “The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence, I desire to know more…

published : 11 Jul 2022 at 17:55 Kanit Sangsubhan, secretary-general of the Eastern Economic Corridor Office, holds a press conference at Government House on Monday after a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. (Government House photo) A government panel has approved a plan to build a 1.34 trillion baht…

SpaceX is making a 480-foot-tall giant robot with arms that will catch giant rockets. It is insanely cool. Sci-fi made real. But moon landings were already insanely cool. The difference is with this working we have almost a thousand launches per month from the same launch pad versus at most…

Building a robot is hard. Building one that can sense its environment and learn how to get around on its own is even harder. But UCLA engineers took on an even bigger challenge. Not only did they create autonomous robots, they 3-D printed them in a single step. Each robot…

Rating: 8/10 ? 1 - Absolute Hot Garbage 2 - Sorta Lukewarm Garbage 3 - Strongly Flawed Design 4 - Some Pros, Lots Of Cons 5 - Acceptably Imperfect 6 - Good Enough to Buy On Sale 7 - Great, But Not Best-In-Class 8 - Fantastic, with Some Footnotes 9…

Respawn just announced a new mobile-first Legend debuting in Apex Legends Mobile (Free) next week. Rhapsody has a robot helper named Rowdy and brings music and rhythm themed abilities to the game on July 12th with Season 2. Apex Legends Mobile had early tests, a soft launch, and more leading…

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Robots like Rosey from “The Jetsons” and C3PO from “Star Wars” have long helped meet the domestic needs of their fictional owners. Now real robots are helping hotels shore up staffing shortages amid a boom in summer travel. Guests at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Boston can use an app…

William Shatner in "The Future is Now" In a rarely seen video about robotics optimistically called “The Future is Now,” William Shatner takes viewers through a 19 minute tour of the latest in industrial robotics. It’s got everything one wants in an educational video from 1984: grainy montages, a beep-boop…