A morning stroll in Los Angeles has all the views one might expect: sunshine, palm trees, fitness influencers, and increasingly, bug eyed robots barreling down the sidewalk delivering breakfast ...

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More specifically, in the first half of the new year, confirms the Financial Times, Nvidia is launching a new generation of compact computers for humanoid robots called Jetson Thor. The move ...

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Now, new research demonstrates how AI training techniques similar to those used for ChatGPT could be used to train surgical robots to operate on their own. Researchers from John Hopkins University ...