🤖 Robotics
Robots can do hard, dangerous and repetitive tasks 24/7 and they are fast getting more advanced and helpful.
🦿 New robot model can handle unfamiliar objects with natural language
Figure robots equipped with Helix can pick up almost any small household object by following natural language commands. Helix can successfully handle thousands of new items in cluttered environments without any prior demonstrations or custom programming.
🤖 Generative AI gives robots new "brain" that understands the world
Google DeepMind has integrated its multimodal language model Gemini 2.0 into robots, giving them an advanced AI brain that can understand and interact with the physical world. This enable robots to perform tasks they were never trained for by understanding everyday instructions in natural language.
🦾 Robots learn through self-training and human interaction
DeepMind develops robots that become more skilled by training against both humans and other robots. Researchers are now working towards a future where a single artificial intelligence can control different types of robots.
🦾 Industrial robots learn new skills on their own
Industrial robots are becoming more intelligent with the help of AI and can now perform increasingly complex tasks. Generative AI enables robots to perform more complex tasks, such as pouring liquids or turning knobs, and to learn new skills faster based on learned behavior.
🔥 BurnBot performs controlled burns to reduce the risk of forest fires
BurnBot has developed a robot that performs controlled burns without flames and smoke. The robot reduces the need for personnel and minimizes the risk of fire spreading uncontrollably.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: A robot with ChatGPT
A robot that can pick up trash, while reasoning why it chose to give a human an apple. The robot Figure One uses ChatGPT to talk and listen, while performing physical tasks.
🛩 Mini robot only needs wind and light to fly
Powered by wind and light alone, the robot Fairy could in the future be used for everything from monitoring wildlife to pollinating plants.
🤖 BB - a beach-cleaning robot
BeachBot is a mobile beach cleaning robot which picks up cigarette butts from the sand and disposes them into safe bins. The robot uses an AI-detection algorithm to find the butts.
🤖 Robot collects rare minerals from the seafloor
A company has proven that sustainable ocean mining is possible with the world's first hovering robot.