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You have an AI product to build. Do you choose a proprietary frontier model and get moving quickly? Build on an open model and gain greater control? Fine-tune your own version? Run locally? Use multiple models? Change strategy six months from now when the economics and capabilities shift again? There
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Robotic fish are useful because they can go places that conventional underwater vehicles cannot. They can swim through vegetation without worrying about snagging a propeller, move through shallow water, and get close to wildlife without causing much of a disturbance. But a robotic fish designed for a narrow creek usually
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QNX and Sift are bringing sub-second telemetry queries to industrial edge hardware, streaming live data from embedded factory machinery. The integration targets mission-focused machinery operating on factory floors, robotics cells, and medical environments. By connecting Sift’s data infrastructure platform to QNX OS, engineering teams can inspect machine states within
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Will AI wipe out humanity? is the question on the lips this week. Clearly, it is a good one – existentially important, no less. And we can place it aloof the industry, politicians, and the general public alike this week, taking over, at least temporarily from fretting about whether the robots
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The highest-paying robotics job at OpenAI right now pays up to $500,000 and does not involve working directly with robots. This role is for a machine learning engineer, with a listed salary range of $380,000 to $500,000 plus equity, and the main responsibility is building the pipeline
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Save $100: The new Narwal Freo 20 Edge is down to $699 at Amazon, saving you 13% off its usual $799 price. This robot vacuum and mop launched on Sept. 7, and the inaugural discount is available through Sept. 20, so you’ve a limited window to snag it at
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Due to climate change, heat waves are expected to become more common. That would explain why air care tech companies have begun expanding their product lines with cooling devices. In March, Shark released its ChillPill, the only three-in-one personal fan with a cooling plate and water mister. Just one month
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AI researchers are quitting, labs are talking about slowing down, governments are worried about China, and everyone has an incentive to keep accelerating anyway. Maybe we have been looking at the AI alignment problem one layer too low. We keep asking whether we can control superintelligence. The more immediate question
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“AI models and devices that perform well in a laboratory can struggle when they encounter reverberation, background noise, or an unfamiliar physical environment,” said Finnur Pind, co-founder and chief executive of Treble Technologies. The Reykjavík company has raised $18m, about €15m, in a Series A-2 round, it announced on 17
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* China's UBTech has revealed its new robot factory * The facility can produce 10,000 androids a year * It uses many autonomous robots in the production process Forget AI agents and ChatGPT, fully autonomous robots are the next high-tech frontier, with companies across the globe racing to perfect their
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Best travel tech gifts under $35 Clckr Stand and Grip for MagSafe (2nd gen) CNET’s David Carnoy says Clckr’s trim Stand and Grip is one of his favorite MagSafe accessories. “The accessory really sticks to the back of your MagSafe-enabled phone or MagSafe-enabled case and not only makes
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The debate of whether AI can kill us has been everywhere lately, but what would an actual AI catastrophe look like? This week, Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger break down three real-world scenarios experts worry the most about—including hacked water supplies, bioweapons, and autonomous robots. We also
