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Most systems we call “AI agents” are not really agents in the deeper sense. They are powerful workflows wrapped around LLMs. I recently came across the Critique of Agent Model paper that gave me a cleaner vocabulary for something many developers already feel when building agents. A lot of “agents”
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What if you had a drone that wasn’t a buzzy, annoying fly people wanted to swat — but rather a cute dog that runs and jumps? What if it could do tricks on command, and film your tricks as well? What if it could get right back up after a
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Roborock Saros 204 / 5Very good pros and cons * The Roborock Saros 20 features a strong 36,000 Pa of suction. * It can climb up to 3.46 inches in a couple of step-ups. * The robot is low enough to fit under furniture that others can't reach. * It has
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The war in Ukraine has become, among other things, a fight over signals. Russian forces are now trying to jam Elon Musk’s Starlink network to blunt the cheap long-range drones that have reshaped the conflict, according to Ukrainian drone commanders and pilots who spoke to Reuters. The tool they
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Nomagic, a Warsaw-based warehouse robotics firm, put a vision-language-action model into live customer operations. It says the model roughly halved the rate at which its robots stall for human help. Its new AI lab, run by a former Google DeepMind researcher, is betting on mastery before generality. A Polish robotics
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Android Auto routines can automatically handle several tasks. * You can send messages, control smart home devices, and more. * These automations save me time and keep me safer on the road. Android Automations have been around
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The long-wheelbase Model Y L adds a usable third row with a negligible range penalty, but its $61,990 Launch Series price undercuts no one. Tesla has added an actual, reasonable third row of seats to its Tesla Model Y. The automaker brought a long-wheelbase variant of the Model Y
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Eric Schmidt has enjoyed a long career in the technology industry, including a decade at the helm of Google. Since then, he's been heavily involved in the realm of defense – and has had a thing or two to say about the new reality of conflicts around the globe.
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Executive Summary The strategic signal today is that AI power is moving from a simple scarcity story to a managed-infrastructure story. The United States is still trying to shape the ceiling of rival capability through export controls and trusted-access regimes. China is responding less by waiting for Nvidia access and
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Say hello to Mysterious Prime and Automutt. Hasbro has been cooking up some wild Transformers collabs as of late. There are a range of official NFL helmets that convert into pig-skin throwing robots, an awesome looking mashup inspired by Evangelion, a ball-shaped bot for the World Cup and so much
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TL;DR Forterra deployed 100+ autonomous ATVs in Ukraine since October, completing 1,100 missions and 52 casualty evacuations. The largest US combat UGV deployment. Forterra, a US builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed that more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs have been deployed in combat zones in Ukraine for
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The Roomba Electro Plus disinfects your floors without detergents. iRobot has announced a new floor cleaner that looks a lot like one of the very traditional vacuum cleaners its robots were supposed to replace. The Roomba Electro Plus is the company's first non-robotic floor cleaner, so rather than
