Machine Learning Research
Robot control systems that accept only text input struggle to translate words into motions in space. Researchers developed a system that enables robots to plan spatial paths before they execute text instructions.
Business
Hangzhou, a longtime manufacturing hub in eastern China, is blossoming into a center of AI innovation.
Robotics
Researchers in China disguised a quadruped robot as a Tibetan antelope to help study the animals close-up.
Machine Learning Research
An autonomous robot performed intricate surgical operations without human intervention.
Science
An automated beehive uses computer vision and robotics to help keep bees healthy and crops pollinated.
Hardware
Meta revealed new details about its latest Aria eyeglasses, which aim to give AI models a streaming, multisensory, human perspective.
Hardware
Hugging Face has made a name by providing open AI models. Now it’s providing an open robot.
Hardware
Chinese robot makers Unitree and EngineAI showed off relatively low-priced humanoid robots that could bring advanced robotics closer to everyday applications.
Hardware
A new generation of robots can handle some household chores with unusual skill.
Tech & Society
Shipping ports are the latest front in the rising tension between labor unions and AI-powered automation.
Tech & Society
A new report documents the interplay of powerful forces that drove AI over the past year: open versus proprietary technology, public versus private financing, innovation versus caution.
Machine Learning Research
A robot that plays table tennis beats human beginners and entertains experts.