This Robotic Centipede Crawls Farms to Kill Weeds — and Might Join the Military
By THE__BYTE Published on May 16, 2025 As IEEE Spectrum reports, Georgia Tech spinoff Ground Control Robotics has created a bio-inspired centipede that uses sensors and plenty of motor-actuated limbs to control weeds. “Centipede robots, like snake robots, are basically swimmers,” founder Dan Goldman told IEEE Spectrum. “We created a new kind of mechanism to […]
Brain Implant Companies Apparently Have an Extremely Dirty Secret
By Futurism Published on April 29, 2025 In the 21st century, it’s safe to say no secret is safe. Our personal data is constantly bottled and sold — by the companies whose apps we use every day, to the advertisers cluttering our phones with increasingly personalized ads. So far, that “data mining” has been confined […]
Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China
By The Guardian Published on April 03, 2025 On a misty Saturday afternoon in Shenzhen’s Central Park, a gaggle of teenage girls are sheltering from the drizzle under a concrete canopy. With their bags of crisps piled high in front of them, they crowd around a couple of smartphones to sing along to […]
The AI Data-Center Boom Is a Job-Creation Bust
By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Published on Feburary 25, 2025 In Abilene, Texas, some 1,500 people are building the first data center for the Stargate artificial-intelligence venture led by OpenAI. Once it is completed, a lot fewer people will work there. The facility will have about 100 full-time employees, according to the […]
Big Tech data center buildouts have led to $5.4 billion in public health costs
By ars TECHNICA Published on Feburary 24, 2025 Big Tech’s growing use of data centers has created related public health costs valued at more than $5.4 billion over the past five years, in findings that highlight the growing impact of building artificial intelligence infrastructure. Air pollution derived from the huge amounts of energy […]
Transit systems turn to AI-powered cameras to catch drivers who block bus lanes
By npr Published on December 31, 2024 KENILWORTH, N.J. — If you’re the kind of driver who parks in the bus lane to run a quick errand, you might want to think twice. The nation’s biggest transit systems are using AI-enhanced cameras to keep bus lanes clear of illegally parked cars. The […]
In a first, surgical robots learned tasks by watching videos
By The Washington Post Published on December 30, 2024 They don’t get fruitcakes or Christmas cards from grateful patients, but for decades robots have been helping doctors perform gallbladder removals, hysterectomies, hernia repairs, prostate surgeries and more. While patients lie unconscious on the operating table, robotic arms and grippers work on their bodies at […]
Physical Intelligence, a Robot A.I. Specialist, Raises Millions From Bezos
By The New York Times Published on November 04, 2024 The start-up raised $400 million in a funding round with investments from the likes of Jeff Bezos, Thrive Capital and OpenAI. Physical Intelligence, an artificial intelligence start-up seeking to create brains for a wide variety of robots, plans to announce on Monday that […]
Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’
By Business Insider Published on September 10, 2024 Walking down a suburban neighborhood street already feels like a Ring doorbell panopticon. But this is only the start of our surveillance dystopia, according to Larry Ellison, the billionaire cofounder of Oracle. He said AI will usher in a new era of surveillance that […]