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Currently, all sim training is done using data from the robot's own proprioception systems, but if GPT could actually see what went wrong through a real-world video feed rather than merely reading the ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Alternative Machine have developed a humanoid robot system that can directly map natural language commands to robot actions. Named Alter3, the robot has been ...

According to Looi’s Kickstarter page — yes, this thing is crowdfunded, so keep that in mind — the tiny robot hooks up magnetically to your smartphone. For iPhones with MagSafe, the bot will connect ...

OpenAI just released a report about healthcare drawn from anonymized chatbot conversations. The title could double as one of ...

Real-world robots have been consistently pretty lame. That could all change sooner than you think. Recent developments suggest robots might get their ChatGPT moment in a matter of years. At the start ...

‘Follow me, gentlemen,’ said Spot with integrated AI. Boston Dynamics new chat (ro)bots could act as a tour guide, or—finally—a real talking pet. Reading time 3 minutes “Now behold the rock pile, a ...

It seems like artificial intelligence is everywhere in our virtual lives. It's in our search results and our phones. But what happens when AI moves out of the chat and into the real world? NPR science ...

In a remarkable demonstration of open-source innovation, a team has developed a cheap cleaning robot to complete a set of actions. A pair of roboticists at UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich successfully ...

ChatGPT’s fans have developed intense attachments to some of the “personalities” exhibited by the company’s large language models (LLMs) — and as such, many were in a state of panic when the choice to ...