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with the potential to completely upend white-collar jobs through language models and software agents – as well as blue-collar jobs through a rising generation of intelligent humanoid robots.

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Gemini Robotics, the first of the two AI models, is an advanced vision-language-action (VLA) model which was built using the Gemini 2.0 model. It has a new output modality of “physical actions” which ...

Google DeepMind has released a new model, Gemini Robotics, that combines its best large language model with robotics. Plugging in the LLM seems to give robots the ability to be more dexterous, work ...

Claire chatted to Patrick Meier from the Climate Robotics Network about how robots can help scale action on climate change. Patrick Meier has 15+ years of leadership and field experience at the ...

Built on the same E-GMP platform as the remainder of Kia’s line-up, the EV2 will feature the same 400V electrical architecture as the slightly larger EV3, which means a 10-80% charging time of ...

The system allows the robot to take real-time feedback in natural language, and “talk to itself” as it performs tasks. Researchers at Physical Intelligence, an AI robotics company, have developed a ...

TARRAGONA (Spain) – On the surface, the new Kia EV3 compact crossover does not appear to be the kind of car which would make a huge impression. The 4,310mm-long, 1,850mm-wide and 1,570mm-tall ...

A press center for China's annual sessions of its top legislature and political advisory body, known as the "two sessions", opens at the Media Center Hotel in Beijing, Feb 27, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

In a large, brightly lit warehouse in Flowery Branch, Ga., a pair of human-shaped robots made by Agility Robotics tiptoe across polished concrete floors, their gait oddly mincing. Their legs end ...