Moravec‘s Paradox

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BEIJING — Four months after hosting the world’s first humanoid robot marathon, China is raising the stakes. This August, Beijing will host the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Sports Games, a multi-event competition featuring sprints, relays, gymnastics, and scenario-based challenges set in mock factories, hospitals, and hotels. Events will take place…

For more than three years, an IEEE Standards Association working group has been refining a draft standard for procuring artificial intelligence and automated decision systems, IEEE 3119-2025. It is intended to help procurement teams identify and manage risks in high-risk domains. Such systems are used by government entities involved in…

At its best, Netflix’s Love, Death, and Robots creates the same feeling as picking up a collection of sci-fi short stories. You don’t always know what to expect, and not everything is brilliant, but you’re guaranteed to experience something interesting. That was especially true of volume 3 of the animated…

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Elon Musk was in Saudi Arabia where he predicted tens of billions of humanoid bots. Saudi Arabia and Elon Musk are verbally discussing having Tesla robotaxi and humanoid bots in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia signed up for Starlink Service. There is also talk about Boring Company for Tunnels. Elon also…

According to a CoinGecko survey published on April 23, 47% to 49% of people said that AI agents will be better at crypto trading and investing than humans. The remaining half of the participants believed AI does not have an edge over humans in the crypto market yet, “which suggests…

Small autonomous underwater vehicles, like the drones of the sea, could be very useful for studying the depths of the ocean and monitoring its changing conditions. But such nautical mini bots can be easily overpowered by turbulent ocean currents. Caltech scientists led by John Dabiri (PhD '05), the Centennial Professor…

The main assumption about humanoid robotics that the industry is making right now is that the most realistic near-term pathway to actually making money is in either warehouses or factories. It’s easy to see where this assumption comes from: Repetitive tasks requiring strength or flexibility in well-structured environments is one…

The Trump administration reportedly fired the head of the US copyright office over the weekend – within days of the dismissed official having published a report about how the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology could run afoul of fair use law. The sacking of Shira Perlmutter as the register…