Moravec‘s Paradox

Google is only the latest to fuse large language models with robots. The trend has big implications. Gemini Robotics This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Google made a somewhat surprising announcement.…

Airtel Africa, operating across 14 African countries, has today launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Spam Alert Service to offer its smartphone and feature phone customers real-time alerts for suspected spam SMS messages, at no cost. The feature requires no additional application downloads and is automatically activated for all Airtel customers.…

This photo taken on March 14, 2025 shows a surgical robot demonstration during the 2025 China Medical Equipment Conference & Medical Equipment Exhibition held at Chongqing International Expo Center in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao) CHONGQING, March 16 (Xinhua) -- From a console in Shanghai, French surgeon Youness Ahallal…

Baidu has unveiled two new large-scale artificial intelligence models, positioning them as direct competitors to the rapidly emerging DeepSeek in China's fiercely contested AI landscape . The newly launched models include the X1 reasoning model and the Ernie 4.5 foundation model, with a significant emphasis on multimodal capabilities, suggesting an…

Sophia and Zac inspect the last week of humanoid and non-humanoid robots while unpacking several days of AI announcements, including Amazon’s new Alexa+ AI, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 and Claude Code, and much more. Note: recorded 2/27/2025 and released 3/16/2025 because… reasons. Thanks for viewing! Hosts Sophia Tung YouTube: youtube.com/@sophiat  Threads:…

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. European Robotics Forum: 25–27 March 2025, STUTTGART, GERMANY RoboSoft 2025:…

Baby Elon Musk. Shrimp Jesus. The Titanic colliding with an iceberg lettuce. Social media is saturated with AI slop — low-quality, often ridiculous and sometimes disturbing images, videos, or words created using generative artificial intelligence.  While some AI slop is glaringly fake, a lot isn’t. I remember the first time…

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As Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered cyber threats surge, INE Security, a global leader in cybersecurity training and certification, is launching a new initiative to help organizations rethink cybersecurity training and workforce development. The company warns that AI is reshaping both the threat landscape and the skills required for cybersecurity professionals. While…

China has been making great strides in many different areas, including its advancements in robotics. Now, though, the nation is setting its sights on something beyond our atmosphere, with reports that it wants to create a space-based solar power station. While this might sound like an out-of-this-world kind of idea…