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On Thursday, Google announced a new âRobot Constitutionâ that will govern the AI that runs its upcoming army of intelligent machines. Based on Isaac Asimovâs âThree Laws of Robotics,â these safety instructions are meant to steer the devices ...
Google found a new way to demonstrate what its Gemini AI model can do, with help from a robot. This was a robot from Googleâs Everybody Robots Division, which was shut down last year. But apparently the robots are still around, so Google put a yellow ...
Googleâs DeepMind has shown off an AI-powered robot that can beat the average player at a game of table tennis. According to an announcement by the company on X-formerly-Twitter, âitâs the first agent to achieve amateur human level performance in ...
There have been a lot of beneficiaries of the AI boom â phones, cars, people who are too exhausted to read emails â but none as surprising as the world of robotics. With the help of large language models like ChatGPT, companies like Figure are imbuing ...
Innovation rarely matches up to science fiction. The Jetsons premiered in 1962 and is set in 2062, so weâre closer to the future than we are the past. While it doesnât feel like weâre living in The Flintstones, the most obvious mainstream tech ...
Google DeepMind has trained a robot to play intermediate-level table tennis. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Researchers from Google DeepMind have unveiled an A.I. powered robot that is not only able to play table tennis with humans but can win matches nearly ...