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AI is upending the way robots learn, leaving companies and researchers with a need for more data. Getting it means wrestling with a host of ethical and legal questions. Since ChatGPT was released, we ...

In two new papers, UC Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg explains why robots are not gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency. UC Berkeley News spoke with ...

Data about shoppers’ movements in stores and malls are an unexpected goldmine for the training of humanoid robots, reveals an ex-NASA engineer. So, you’ve built your robot’s World Foundation Model and ...

Inside a brightly lit office in Shanghai, Kim’s task for the week was to pretend he was opening the door of a microwave. Wearing a virtual reality headset and exoskeletons on his arms, he repeated the ...

In real life, robots are pretty simple. They are just, like, an arm putting cars together or what have you. In movies and TV, though, robots have long been intelligent. They’ve had personalities. They ...

Robotics companies want tremendous amounts of data on how we move our hands and limbs, and their tactics are getting strange. I was recently invited to join an app that would pay me cryptocurrency to ...

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Today, Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs—which cost up to $300,000 each—are already patrolling data centers across the United States, guarding the infrastructure powering Big Tech’s generative A.I. The ...