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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Robots will rule the world by 2060
Claims the Current Bun
The UK’s number one science magazine “The Sun” claims that the world will be ruled by Robots by 2060.