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SCIENCE

Robots run out of energy long before they run out of work to do — feeding them could change that

Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in Beijing in just under 2 hours and 40 minutes. That’s slower…

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TECH

Aerones, which makes robots that can service wind turbines in about half the time of humans, raised $62M led by Activate Capital and S2G Investments (Virginia Furness/Reuters)

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WORLD

As AI evolves, pressure mounts to regulate ‘killer robots’ — Global Issues

Every day, we voluntarily give up information about ourselves to machines. This happens when we accept an online cookie or…

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TECH

Vivodyne, which uses AI and robots to grow human tissues in the lab for drug discovery and development, raised a $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (Katherine Davis/Axios)

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BUSINESS

Elon Musk Rival? Ray Kurzweil’s Beyond Imagination Lands $100M Deal As Tesla, Nvidia, Meta Race Toward AI-Powered Humanoid Robots

Ray Kurzweil, the AI futurist best known for predicting the rise of the singularity, is taking a major step toward…

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SCIENCE

Every episode of Netflix’s ‘Love, Death + Robots’ Volume 4, ranked

Netflix’s acclaimed animated anthology, “Love, Death + Robots” returned May 15, 2015, with another twisted season showcasing a banquet of…

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WORLD

UN chief calls for global ban on ‘killer robots’ — Global Issues

“There is no place for lethal autonomous weapon systems in our world,” Mr. Guterres said on Monday, during an informal…

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SCIENCE

Housework robots are a step closer as they learn to work in any home

Robots equipped with the π0.5 AI model were tested in homes they had never seen before Physical Intelligence An AI…

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SCIENCE

Robots: Facts about these programmable and autonomous machines

QUICK FACTS Origin of the word “robot”‘: The 1920 play “Rossum’s Universal Robots,” by Karel Čapek The first robot: Unimate,…

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BUSINESS

UPS in talks with startup Figure AI to deploy humanoid robots

United Parcel Service Inc. is in talks with robotics startup Figure AI Inc. to use humanoid robots for some tasks…

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