Figure’s humanoid robot takes voice orders to help around the house
Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock Thursday revealed a new machine learning model for humanoid robots. The news, which ...
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Designing laboratory robots: Verifying automation technologies
Professor Cavalcanti holds a chair in emerging technologies from the Royal Academy of Engineering. She oversights modelling, simulation, code generation, and testing concerns in this role. Cavalcanti ...
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Designing laboratory robots: derisking the discovery of novel compounds
Fairlamb: We created the York Robotics for Chemistry Lab. It is a relatively small initiative, but our system works well for us. It serves approximately 30 to 40 researchers, but we aim to expand it ...
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SoftBank in Talks to Lead $500 Million AI Robotics Funding
SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to lead a $500 million funding round for Skild AI, a startup building robotics software, according to people familiar with the matter. The startup would be valued ...
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Meta is bringing its Reality Labs division closer to its main business, reversing some of Mark Zuckerberg's huge 2021 reorg
Meta is shaking up Reality Labs and integrating it more closely with its core business. Chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth announced a series of reorgs in a post on Meta's internal forum ...
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Vancouver game studio Phoenix Labs lays off ‘majority’ of employees
Canadian video game developer Phoenix Labs, creator of Dauntless and Fae Farm, announced Monday that it’s laying off a majority of its staff. The news came via a post on Phoenix Labs’ official ...
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After new CIA finding, China says ‘extremely unlikely’ COVID-19 came from a lab
China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission.
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Lambda Labs' COO has left the AI cloud provider to head Positron, a startup trying to compete with Nvidia
Lambda Labs, a Nvidia partner, has lost its chief operating officer to a little-known company building hardware for the AI industry. Mitesh Agrawal told Business Insider he stepped into a new role ...
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Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs lays off 'the majority of the studio' after a year of turmoil
Phoenix Labs, developer of Dauntless and Fae Farm, has laid off "the majority of the studio" according to announcements made earlier today on Reddit and LinkedIn, as part of what the studio called ...
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CIA believes COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China even ...
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CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak
The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s ...
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CIA backs COVID lab leak theory - but admits ‘low confidence’ in its own findings on pandemic’s start
A bombshell new report from the CIA says the agency is now backing the COVID-19 “lab leak” theory - but admits “low confidence” in the finding. The distinction was made in a report ...