#robotics

#robotics

Kinetic's CEO Nikhil Naikal states, 'We have eyes, and when we need to correct vision, we go to an optometrist... In the same way, this is a digital prescription to correct the errors of the car's understanding of the world around it.'

The Roadrunner weighs roughly 15 kilograms and is designed for multi-mode locomotion, allowing it to switch mobility modes based on navigation requirements.

Decathlon's Portugal warehouse doubled its order preparation capacity from 57,000 to 114,000, showcasing the significant impact of Exotec's robotic systems on productivity.

The humanoid robot, clad in an orange and very ironic 'I'm good' apron, was shaking its moneymaker to beloved millennial Chinese song 'Love You' by artists Cyndi Wang and Sam Wang.

Janyla Amazing Haqq, 19, was charged in San Mateo County court Wednesday for kidnapping a 14-year-old girl in Daly City and taking her to Oakland to be forced into human trafficking. Prosecutors say Haqq convinced the girl and her male friend to get in a car with her and three strangers, when they proceeded to take the girl to International Boulevard in Oakland after dropping the boy off, who told the girl's mother. [KRON4]

An elephant's trunk is a marvelous thing, flexible enough to bend and stretch as it forages for food, but also stiff enough to grasp and maneuver even delicate objects like peanuts or a tortilla chip. That's because the trunk is highly sensitive when it comes to sensing touch. Scientists have determined that the whiskers lining the trunk are crucial for that sensitivity thanks to their unique structure, amounting to a kind of innate "material intelligence, according to a new paper published in the journal Science.

Dario Amodei shares his utopian and dystopian predictions for the near-term future of artificial intelligence. I want to try and focus on scenarios where A.I. goes rogue. I should have had a picture of a Terminator robot to scare people as much as possible. I think the internet... The internet does that for us. Are the lords of artificial intelligence on the side of the human race? My prediction is there'll be more robots than people.

Alibaba has launched RynnBrain, an open source AI model that helps robots and smart devices perform complex tasks in the real world. The model combines spatial understanding with time awareness. Alibaba's DAMO Academy introduced the foundation model that enables interaction with the environment. RynnBrain can map objects, predict trajectories, and navigate in complex environments such as kitchens or factory halls. The system is trained on Alibaba's Qwen3-VL vision language model.

It feels like an episode of The Jetsons come to life, but the truth is that the AI boom has officially entered the physical world. Most of us interact with artificial intelligence through screens- Gemini drafts our emails, ChatGPT summarizes our docs-but behind the scenes, engineers are racing to give AI hands and feet. Robots already pack boxes in warehouses and make guacamole in fast-food kitchens. Soon, they will be washing dishes, taking care of pets, and performing your manicure.

"If a rover comes across a crater in front of it, for instance, it can't decide what to do after communicating with Earth," he says, because sending signals across space takes too long. "It must decide on its own. So I think AI is very important for the nation's deep space exploration."

"This is a kind of a classic example of a prepared mind meets opportunity," Kashani said. "Robots that are moving among people is the broader opportunity for us. Once you solve the problem, which is how to get robots to seamlessly move among people as autonomous machines, then you can bring it to a lot of other environments. We knew that we wanted to do this someday."

You know that feeling when you want to practice your serve but no one's available to hit with you? Or when you're playing a casual match with friends and everyone's arguing about whether that ball was in or out? Designer Jaehong Jeon has created something that might just solve both problems, and it happens to look like the friendliest little robot you've ever seen.

Its name is Atlas, an all-electric humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics, the Massachusetts-based company and maker of the four-legged inspection robot, Spot, and the mobile warehouse robot, Stretch. Hyundai, which owns Boston Dynamics, unveiled the latest version of Atlas at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 5. During live demonstrations, Atlas was seen waving hello to its audience before moving car parts from one rack to another.

So Tony Cholerton, a zookeeper who had been a motorcycle engineer for many years, invented Robovacc a machine to quickly administer vital jabs without the presence of people. The result, a clever contraption he controlled from an adjacent room with a handset taken from remote-control toy aeroplanes, successfully administered vaccinations to Cinta in a feeding area. The tiger sat up briefly, mid-meal, as the needle penetrated her rear end, then calmly continued eating.

I do think there's just fervor around 'Oh, you can sprinkle AI on top of any robot and magic will ensue,' Walti said. 'Then the value will compound at the rate we've seen with some of these other AI companies in say, voice or text. And I don't think that's the case. At a high level, where some of the hype and capital is going in robotics is perhaps a little misguided...'