At IO-AI Tech, a startup about 45 minutes north of downtown Shenzhen, China, I glimpsed a wacky new frontier of blue-collar work. Workers wearing the company's VR headsets, handheld controllers, and ...

A disciplined approach to industrial robot selection is to treat robots as engineered mechanical systems that must fit a specific job. The POWERSET framework structures selection around eight ...

AI researchers and labs have advanced by leaps and bounds in evaluating AI models for everything from safety and compliance to sycophancy and alignment. But it appears companies and developers are ...

New book chronicles a tech journalist’s year-long experiment surrendering her daily tasks, chores, decisions, and routines to artificial intelligence tools and consumer robotics. Starting on January 1 ...

LULING, Texas (KXAN) — A rather unusual home is going up on a ranch south of Austin — made of clay and built by robots. An adobe home under construction at Proto-Town near Luling, Texas, shows thick ...

Wildlife researchers have found an unconventional way to help control invasive Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades – by using one of the snakes’ favorite prey. Opossums are a key food source for ...

Most people think of Toyota and picture a Camry, a Tacoma, maybe a Prius. A 7-foot-2 robot shooting free throws at halftime of a professional basketball game? That's a harder image to conjure. But ...

What triggered recall: An April 20 incident in San Antonio saw a Waymo robotaxi drive into floodwater and get swept into a creek, prompting a voluntary recall. How Waymo responded: The company paused ...

In short: Tesla’s China president Wang Hao has described the Shanghai Gigafactory as a “golden key” to mass-producing Optimus humanoid robots, the first time a Tesla executive has publicly linked the ...

Robots such as Boston Dynamics’ four-legged Spot can now accurately read analog thermometers and pressure gauges while roaming around factories and warehouses. Those improvements come courtesy of ...

Microsoft says Agent Framework 1.0 is the production-ready release, with stable APIs and long-term support for both .NET and Python. The framework is presented as a unified successor path that builds ...