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A New Trick Lets Artificial Intelligence See in 3D
The current wave of artificial intelligence can be traced back to 2012, and an academic contest that measured how well…
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Now Physical Jobs Are Going Remote, Too
“There’s just no way this isn’t going to explode as a category,” says Matt Beane, an assistant professor at UC…
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Now You Can Rent a Robot Worker—for Less Than Paying a Human
Polar Manufacturing has been making metal hinges, locks, and brackets in south Chicago for more than 100 years. Some of…
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John Deere’s Self-Driving Tractor Stirs Debate on AI in Farming
Deere & Co. helped mechanize agriculture in 1837 with the first commercially successful steel plow. On Tuesday, the company unveiled…
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Robots Won’t Close the Warehouse Worker Gap Anytime Soon
AI holds significant promise for making robots far more capable. Instead of blindly following a routine, an AI-enabled machine can…
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Inside X’s Mission to Make Robots Boring
These creatures are targeting tabletops. One of them will wheel up to a table and ponder for a few seconds…
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These Robots Follow You to Learn Where to Go
Fruit and nut growers are increasingly incorporating computer vision into their work. Tastry, for example, uses AI to look for…
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These Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk
An army of more than 4,000 marching doglike robots is a vaguely menacing sight, even in a simulation. But it…
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Why Robots Can’t Sew Your T-Shirt
SoftWear Automation is a robotics company that wants to make T-shirts. “We want to make a billion T-shirts a year…
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Tesla Promised a Robot. Was It Just a Recruiting Pitch?
The Tesla recruitment presentation ended Thursday night when a person in a tight white suit, their head encased in black,…
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