• This Robot Lawn Mower Is a Solid Choice for Smaller Yards

    The Segway Navimow i110N requires a level lawn, but is small and agile enough to navigate smaller spaces. While it won't create lawn lines, it does reliably mow and return, and will learn the space over time.

  • Sanctuary AI and Microsoft to work on the development of AI models for general purpose robots

    Sanctuary AI, a startup which is trying to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots, today announced its partnership with Microsoft. Both the companies will be working on the development of AI models for general purpose humanoid robots. Also, they will work to improve AI research and development and Sanctuary AI will be using […]

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    Microsoft and Sanctuary AI team up to help develop AI models for future humanoid robots

    Microsoft has just announced another partnership with an AI startup company, Sanctuary AI. The two businesses will work together to create a human-like AI model for general purpose robots.

  • Crews put out lawn mower fire in Southampton

    The Southampton Fire Department was sent to a lawn mower fire on Tuesday.

  • The Download: robotics’ data bottleneck, and our AI afterlives

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The robot race is fueling a fight for training data We’re interacting with AI tools more directly—and regularly—than ever before. Interacting with robots, by way of contrast, is still a rarity for most.…

  • Fembots, Explained: The Sinister Reality of "Perfect" Robot Women & AI

    The "fembot" (aka female robot or artificial intelligence,) is usually beautiful and completely programmable, and functions as an idealized, eroticized iteration of femininity – a woman without opinions, preferences, or sexual agency. She frequently appears in sci-fi and horror movies as a way of exploring the dark side of male desire, and the backlash against feminism – but also as a cautionary tale about the implications of an increasingly technological existence. So why is the fembot such a...

  • TikTok to auto-flag AI videos – even if created on other platforms

    Industry’s digital watermarking scheme will add to existing safeguards on TikTok’s own toolsTikTok will flag users who upload artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) to the video-sharing site from other platforms, the company says, becoming the first big video site to automatically label such content for users to see.Content created using TikTok’s own AI tools is already automatically marked as such to viewers, and the company has required creators to manually add the same labels to...

  • As Read by Robots: AI-Generated Audiobooks Flood Audible Platform

    The audiobook industry is witnessing a significant shift as AI-generated voices are increasingly being used to narrate digital books, sparking both excitement and concern among authors, listeners, and professional narrators.

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    Man killed in riding lawn mower accident in Cowley County

    The Cowley County Sheriff’s Office said an Arkansas City man was killed Tuesday when his riding lawn mower overturned in a ditch. The accident was reported around 3:50 p.m. in the 13,000 block of 212th Road, southeast

  • Microsoft taps Sanctuary AI for general-purpose robot research

    Microsoft, it seems, is hedging its bets when it comes to general-purpose robotics AI. At the end of February, the Windows maker spearheaded a massive $675 million Series B in Bay Area-based Figure. Today, the tech giant announced a collaboration with Figure competitor Sanctuary AI, best known for its humanoid robot, Phoenix. The Sanctuary partnership […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • SoftBank sells off Vision Fund assets as Son pivots to AI, chips

    SoftBank Group Corp.’s flagship Vision Fund has quietly sold off or written down billions of dollars’ worth of its publicly-listed holdings in recent years, a sign of founder Masayoshi Son’s shift away from the venture capital deals that were once an obsession and toward strategic investments in semiconductors and artificial intelligence.Since the end of 2021, the world’s biggest startup fund has seen its US-listed portfolio shrink by almost $29 billion, as it sold down stakes in companies such...

  • Robot Dogs with AI-Targeting Rifles Now Under US MARSOC Testing

    US MARSOC is now testing a new generation of robot dogs with AI-targeting rifles on their backs. Dogs may be a human's best friend, but this new generation of robot dogs from Ghost Robotics and Onyx Industries features AI-targeting rifles strapped on its back, which are now under testing by the US military.