Science
Robotic Beehive For Healthier Bees: Beewise’s robotic beehive uses AI to save pollinators.
An automated beehive uses computer vision and robotics to help keep bees healthy and crops pollinated.
Robotics
Hardware
Meta’s Smart Glasses Come Into Focus: Meta reveals further details of Aria Gen 2 smart glasses for multisensory AI research
Meta revealed new details about its latest Aria eyeglasses, which aim to give AI models a streaming, multisensory, human perspective.
Hardware
Hugging Face Rolls Out Open Robot: Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics, launches Reachy 2 robot for open-source research
Hugging Face has made a name by providing open AI models. Now it’s providing an open robot.
Hardware
Humanoid Robot Price Break: Unitree and EngineAI showcase affordable humanoid robots
Chinese robot makers Unitree and EngineAI showed off relatively low-priced humanoid robots that could bring advanced robotics closer to everyday applications.
Hardware
Household Help: π0, a machine learning system for household robotics
A new generation of robots can handle some household chores with unusual skill.
Tech & Society
Robots On the Loading Dock: Tensions mount as automation transforms U.S. shipping ports
Shipping ports are the latest front in the rising tension between labor unions and AI-powered automation.
Tech & Society
A Year of Contending Forces: State of AI report highlights 2024’s major trends and breakthroughs
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
Robot Server: Google’s table tennis robot triumphs over beginners
A robot that plays table tennis beats human beginners and entertains experts.
Business
Amazon Boosted by Covariant: Amazon strengthens logistics and robotics with new AI partnership
Amazon took on talent and technology from robotics startup Covariant to enhance its warehouse automation, an area critical to its core ecommerce business.
Machine Learning Research
Brain-Controlled Robots Get More Versatile: NOIR, a system to control robots via electroencephalogram for everyday tasks
Brain-to-computer interfaces that enable users to control robots with their thoughts typically execute a single type of task such as reaching and grasping. Researchers designed a system that responds to a variety of intentions.
Machine Learning Research
Robo-Football From Simulation to Reality: Reinforcement learning powers humanoid robots to play football
Humanoid robots can play football (known as soccer in the United States) in the real world, thanks to reinforcement learning.
Machine Learning Research
Conversational Robots: RFM-1, a model that enables robots to understand and act on human commands
Robots equipped with large language models are asking their human overseers for help.