In a cluttered open-plan office in Mountain View, California, a tall and slender wheeled robot has been busy playing tour guide and informal office helper—thanks to a large language model upgrade, ...
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Covariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, the co-founder and CEO of the UC Berkeley artificial intelligence spinout tells TechCrunch the platform, ...
A Kenyan-built robotic arm is helping deaf students access science and technology lessons that teachers say are often ...
The new model from Google DeepMind is a huge step toward robots that can generalize. Google DeepMind has released a new model, Gemini Robotics, that combines its best large language model with ...
Robots are on the rise. The International Federation of Robots reports there were 3.9 million robots in operation in 2022 or about 151 robots per 10,000 workers. In 2023, that number increased by ...