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Keeping track of how many calories you consume each day can be a good way to manage your weight and monitor your nutritional intake. Unfortunately, doing so can also be a hassle. Even with modern smartphone apps that can recognize food from photographs, you still have to pull out your
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* Ukrainian developers complete combat trials of airless wheels for ground robots * New 3D-printed wheels eliminate inflation requirements for battlefield robotic vehicles * Ukrainian wheel sets weigh between 32 and 56 kg Ukrainian engineers have developed inflation-free wheels for unmanned ground vehicles, aiming to keep robotic platforms moving despite damage encountered during
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In most factories, automation is fixed: robots and machines are programmed for one specific task and product. Changing a line means reprogramming and physical retooling, or swapping out equipment, which can take weeks or months. San Francisco-based Industrial Next says it’s changing that. The startup, which presented today on
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For three years, "AI" meant something you talked to. A box on a screen that wrote your emails, summarized your meetings, and occasionally hallucinated a court case. That version of AI lived entirely behind glass, with no hands, no weight, no stake in the physical room it was
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* Unitree’s CEO says robotic AI could soon see a huge breakthrough * Such a change could happen ‘next year,’ the CEO believes * That could happen thanks to OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-7 model AI is revolutionizing the world of software on a daily basis — you only need to look at how
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A judge has ruled that Apple will gain expedited access to OpenAI’s hiring materials in the trade secrets-focused lawsuit the iPhone maker filed against OpenAI in July. Specifically, the court will allow Apple to view documents associated with OpenAI’s interviews with former Apple employees who applied for roles
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Doug Field has worked on EVs at Ford and Tesla, the not-so-secret car project at Apple, and was employee No. 1 at Segway. Now the executive is turning his attention to Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe’s latest project: Mind Robotics. Field has been hired as president of Mind Robotics, an
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Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the EV company’s secretive robotics startup. Field was a VP of special projects at Apple, where he was the de facto head of the company’s ultimately unsuccessful Project Titan effort to
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Doug Field has worked on EVs at Ford and Tesla, the not-so-secret car project at Apple, and was employee No. 1 at Segway. Now, the executive is turning his attention to Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe’s latest project: Mind Robotics. Field has been hired at president of Mind Robotics, an
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If there’s one lesson the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident taught us, it’s that AI agents can be unpredictable. “Imagine if something like that happened in the physical world,” Howie Sun, CEO and co-founder of Laplace Intelligence, told TechCrunch. “AI agents are moving from computers into the real world, and
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When Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon a few weeks ago, the lab said it would be limiting initial access to the new AI model to cybersecurity defenders. Now it’s loosening the reins and letting paying subscribers get their hands on the new Gemini. Gemini 4 Argon is available
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We build robots in our own image, but unlike us, their intelligence doesn’t necessarily live in their heads. So what do robots think with? As we build humanoid robots to resemble us, it’s easy to imagine that they think with their heads, too. We picture a kind of
