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How to Stop ChatGPT from Going Off the Rails
When WIRED asked me to cover this week’s newsletter, my first instinct was to ask ChatGPT—OpenAI’s viral chatbot—to see what…
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San Francisco Just Reversed Its Killer Robot Plan
A week is a long time in politics—particularly when considering whether it’s okay to grant robots the right to kill…
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Amazon’s New Robot Sparrow Can Handle Most Items in the Everything Store
Amazon built an ecommerce empire by automating much of the work needed to move goods and pack orders in its…
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Elon Musk’s Half-Baked Robot Is a Clunky First Step
Some robot experts watching saw a project that appeared to be quickly getting up to speed. “There’s nothing fundamentally groundbreaking,…
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Amazon Wants Its Home Robot, Astro, to Anticipate Your Every Need
The same approach to teaching Astro with gestures and words could in the future be extended to all kinds of…
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How to Stop Robots From Becoming Racist
In 2017, Holliday contributed to a RAND report warning that resolving bias in machine learning requires hiring diverse teams and…
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Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix its Worker Injury Problem
The introduction of Proteus comes 10 years after Amazon’s acquisition of Kiva Systems, which became Amazon Robotics. Kiva robots carry…
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Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
Around midnight on June 28, Calvin Hu was driving with his girlfriend near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park when he…
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This Warehouse Robot Reads Human Body Language to Be a Better Coworker
Sales of workplace robots worldwide are growing steadily after a recent slowdown in growth due to the pandemic, according to…
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The Elusive Hunt for a Robot That Can Pick a Ripe Strawberry
Rhee said Traptic stood out from other companies in the space because its robot doesn’t touch the strawberry. Instead it…
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