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US Army Evaluates Armored Humanoid Robot Alex

An armored humanoid robot named Alex took part in a US Army evaluation of technologies that could reduce soldiers’ exposure to dangerous work.

The US Army selected the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), which developed Alex, as one of five winners of its xTechHumanoid competition.

The competition attracted 103 white-paper submissions, with 10 finalists selected and nine demonstrating their technologies at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, on Sept. 9-10. The Army announced the five winners Sept. 11, according to the US Department of War.

Alex stands out because it is a complete humanoid platform rather than a single supporting component. According to the Army, Alex features impact-resilient actuators, ballistic protection and hybrid autonomy combining artificial intelligence with human control for complex and dangerous missions.

“Humanoid robots are part of a broader autonomy push to increase the depth and breadth of robotic platforms, and [the] components industry can...

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Implementing long-term AI agent memory in AlloyDB and Memorystore

Enterprise AI agents need persistent memory to execute complex, multi-day workflows and long-horizon tasks. In this blog, we examine how a 2-tier memory architecture using Memorystore for Valkey for short-term buffer memory and AlloyDB AI for long-term persistent memory can help reduce token spend by up to 70%, while maintaining

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KL University And Salesforce Set Up Tableau Lab For AI-Ready Analytics Skills

KL University has partnered with Salesforce to establish a Tableau Lab that will give students hands-on experience in enterprise analytics, AI-powered tools and applied business use cases. The initiative is designed to build data literacy and analytical skills across undergraduate, postgraduate and research programs. The lab will introduce students to

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These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open

Some big AI companies seem to think that the best way to keep models from becoming too chaotic or too mischievous is to keep them locked inside of labs. If only a chosen few can access them, the thinking goes, they can do less damage in the real world while

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Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre

Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power for a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid. Spain is drafting rules that would require data centre operators to be established in the EU and keep all data inside European borders. Alibaba has held talks with

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