Alexei Efros: Learning from the ground up
Robotics

Alexei Efros: Learning from the ground up

Things are really starting to get going in the field of AI. After many years (decades?!) of focusing on algorithms, the AI community is finally ready to accept the central role of data and the high-capacity models that are capable of taking advantage of this data.

December 29, 20212 min read
Alexei Efros: Learning from the ground up
Robotics

Alexei Efros: Learning from the ground up

Things are really starting to get going in the field of AI. After many years (decades?!) of focusing on algorithms, the AI community is finally ready to accept the central role of data and the high-capacity models that are capable of taking advantage of this data.

December 29, 20212 min read
Wolfram Burgard: Train robots in the real world
Robotics

Wolfram Burgard: Train robots in the real world

Robots are tremendously useful machines, and I would like to see them applied to every task where they can do some good. Yet we don’t have enough programmers for all this hardware and all these tasks.

December 29, 20213 min read
Wolfram Burgard: Train robots in the real world
Robotics

Wolfram Burgard: Train robots in the real world

Robots are tremendously useful machines, and I would like to see them applied to every task where they can do some good. Yet we don’t have enough programmers for all this hardware and all these tasks.

December 29, 20213 min read
Deep Learning for Deep Frying: White Castle Uses Robots to Cook French Fries
Robotics

Deep Learning for Deep Frying: White Castle Uses Robots to Cook French Fries

Flippy 2, a robotic fry station from California-based Miso Robotics, has been newly deployed in a Chicago White Castle location.

November 24, 20212 min read
Deep Learning for Deep Frying: White Castle Uses Robots to Cook French Fries
Robotics

Deep Learning for Deep Frying: White Castle Uses Robots to Cook French Fries

Flippy 2, a robotic fry station from California-based Miso Robotics, has been newly deployed in a Chicago White Castle location.

November 24, 20212 min read
Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
Robotics

Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates

A new machine learning method aims to improve a machine’s ability to determine and locate points of interest.

November 10, 20212 min read
Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
Robotics

Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates

A new machine learning method aims to improve a machine’s ability to determine and locate points of interest.

November 10, 20212 min read
Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?
Robotics

Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?

War is already bad enough. What happens when human combatants are replaced by machines?

October 27, 20211 min read
Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?
Robotics

Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?

War is already bad enough. What happens when human combatants are replaced by machines?

October 27, 20211 min read
Guard Bot: Amazon Household Robot Patrols Home for Intruders
Robotics

Guard Bot: Amazon Household Robot Patrols Home for Intruders

Amazon unveiled a robot that patrols users’ homes, scopes out strangers, and warns of perceived dangers.

October 6, 20212 min read
Guard Bot: Amazon Household Robot Patrols Home for Intruders
Robotics

Guard Bot: Amazon Household Robot Patrols Home for Intruders

Amazon unveiled a robot that patrols users’ homes, scopes out strangers, and warns of perceived dangers.

October 6, 20212 min read
Distance Killing: Israeli Agents Assasinated Iranian Scientist With AI-Sniper Rifle
Robotics

Distance Killing: Israeli Agents Assasinated Iranian Scientist With AI-Sniper Rifle

A remote sniper used an automated system to take out a human target located thousands of miles away.What happened: The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad used an AI-assisted rifle in the November killing of Iran’s chief nuclear scientist,

September 22, 20212 min read
Distance Killing: Israeli Agents Assasinated Iranian Scientist With AI-Sniper Rifle
Robotics

Distance Killing: Israeli Agents Assasinated Iranian Scientist With AI-Sniper Rifle

A remote sniper used an automated system to take out a human target located thousands of miles away.What happened: The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad used an AI-assisted rifle in the November killing of Iran’s chief nuclear scientist,

September 22, 20212 min read
Dances With Robots: Tesla Unveils a Robot and D1 Chip at AI Day
Robotics

Dances With Robots: Tesla Unveils a Robot and D1 Chip at AI Day

Tesla unveiled its own AI chip and — surprise! — plans for a humanoid robot.What’s new: At Tesla’s AI Day promotional event, the company offered a first look at an upcoming self-driving computer powered by custom AI chips.

September 1, 20212 min read

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