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Nvidia’s VP Discusses AI Beyond generative
Published in AI
Wednesday, 23 October 2024 17:37

Nvidia’s VP Discusses AI Beyond generative


Physical AI for Robots, cars, buildings, infrastructure

A surprising invitation from WCIT offered the chance to attend a keynote by Rev Lebaredian, Vice President of Omniverse and Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, and to learn more about Armenia's flourishing startup scene.

Boffins improve AI for robots
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 08 March 2023 11:35

Boffins improve AI for robots


PaLM-E improves Robotic vision and language

AI researchers from Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveiled PaLM-E, a multimodal embodied visual-language model (VLM) with 562 billion parameters that integrates vision and language for robotic control.

Robots will do a third of your chores in a decade
Published in AI


As you are forced to eat a cricket sandwich because you are jobless and broke

Within a decade, around 39 per cent of the time spent on housework and caring for loved ones could be automated, according to a new report prepared by Japanese and British boffins.

AI will hit white collar jobs
Published in AI
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 11:32

AI will hit white collar jobs


US will be badly hit

While previous industrial revolutions have hit blue collar employees, it looks like the AI revolution will be coming for white collar workers -- particularly in the US.

Robots foiled by pedestrian crossings
Published in News
Thursday, 08 December 2022 10:23

Robots foiled by pedestrian crossings


This never happened to the Terminator

Robots delivering groceries are being foiled by the complexities of pedestrian crossings.

San Francisco police can use robots to kill suspects
Published in News


No guns yet just explosives

Police in San Francisco will be allowed to deploy lethal, remote-controlled robots armed with bombs in emergencies.

California cops want to give shotguns to robots
Published in AI
Wednesday, 26 October 2022 09:19

California cops want to give shotguns to robots


Even Robocop has the right to bear arms 

California police are still pursuing the option to give shotguns to robots to create real life terminators.

EU prepares to give AI rules
Published in AI
Monday, 19 September 2022 11:03

EU prepares to give AI rules


Robots expected to demand an oven ready exit plan

The European Commission is preparing to make sure that people who suffer from damage due to AI stuff ups will be more likely to win in court.

Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics create AI Institute
Published in News


Smart robots only a matter of time

Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics recently announced the launch of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute and according to Marc Raibert who will run it, it will create "future generations of advanced robots and the world’s smartest and most capable intelligent machines.”

Robots getting more human
Published in News
Wednesday, 24 August 2022 11:35

Robots getting more human


Facial expression capabilities

Engineers are flat out trying to get robots looking and acting more human – a humanoid robot Ameca has been developed that can wink, purse its lips, frown and grin.