NASA’s Perseverance rover breaks the record for longest road trip on Mars
To celebrate this out-of-this-world achievement, we’re going to take a quick look at the history of this record…
Reka AI’s omni-model Rho-1 handles text, images, video, and robot control in a single model
Reka AI has released a research preview of Rho-1. The 19-billion-parameter omni-model processes and generates text, images, video,…
Figure AI Trains Retired Robots to Dive Into Molten Steel
Here’s something you don’t see every day, unless you happen to watch Terminator 2: Judgement Day that much: robots…
Kawasaki Heavy’s hospital robots save 2,700 hours of work in Japan
Health Care Machines handling delivery or cleaning can help ease Japan’s health care labor crunch The Forro, developed…
Egocentric training’s gig workers are helping robots learn how to do your dishes
Mohamad Dunggio recently strapped a mobile phone to his head and recorded himself doing his dishes over and…
‘Get ready now’ – The top 10 AI predictions for 2027 and beyond
By year-end 2030, 80% of frontline workers employed by international companies will be assisted by physical AI systems…
Hungry Jack’s customer shocked by AI drive-thru assistant sparking warning over looming jobs change
An Aussie man has shared his bizarre experience being served by an AI assistant at a Hungry Jack’s…
Protesting robots take to the streets in Poland, demanding AI regulation
“If we don’t react now, we may soon have a problem.” Kulis emphasised the need for “rules and…
The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them
In July and August, Washington tightened restrictions on foreign-made advanced robotic systems and imposed steep tariffs on imported…
AI robots and drones to assist in Fukushima nuclear plant cleanup
Three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant contain 880 tons of debris. (Photo by Akitoshi Sugiura) MASATOSHI IDA August…
Industrial robots now being trained to disassemble broken products
Robots have spent decades helping build the products around us. Now researchers are teaching them another skill that…
World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thousands of simulated variations for training
The main bottleneck in robot deployment isn’t model architecture, World Labs says, but the sheer volume of experience…