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Basement to battlefield: Ukrainian startups creating robots to fight Russia

Struggling with manpower shortages, overwhelming odds and uneven international assistance, Ukraine hopes to find a strategic edge against Russia in an abandoned warehouse or a factory basement. An ecosystem of laboratories in hundreds of secret workshops is leveraging innovation to create a robot army that Ukraine hopes will kill Russian troops and save its own wounded soldiers and civilians. Defense startups across Ukraine about 250 according to industry estimates are creating the killing machines at secret locations that typically look like rural car repair shops. Employees at a startup run by entrepreneur Andrii Denysenko can put together an unmanned ground vehicle called the Odyssey in four days at a shed used by the company. Its most important feature is the price tag: USD 35,000, or roughly 10 per cent of the cost of an imported model. Denysenko asked that The Associated Press not publish details of the location to protect the infrastructure and the people working there. T

GM's Cruise prepares to resume robotaxi testing after suspension

The company has been focusing its comeback plan on Texas, which has relatively liberal regulation for companies that seek to operate autonomous vehicles in the state

In India, 71% of retail businesses plan to adopt GenAI in a year: Survey

International companies like eBay, Walmart, and Nordstrom are integrating Generative AI (GenAI) for diverse applications. In India, 71 per cent of retail businesses plan to adopt GenAI in a year

Apple pay tech opened up to rivals in bid to settle European Union probe

The European Commi­ssion announced Friday that it's seeking feedback from Apple's payment rivals

BMW collaborates with humanoid startup Figure to take on Tesla's robot

"We have designed the robot to be safe next to humans. Working with BMW on automation in a manufacturing facility is a huge validator for us in the space," Adcock said

US, Britain, other countries ink agreement to make AI 'secure by design'

The agreement, signed by 18 countries, is non-binding

Industrial robot in South Korea confuses man with boxes, kills him

The Police are now preparing to launch an investigation into the site's safety managers for possible negligence in duties

Addverb: Automation company making robots in India, for the world

The Addverb journey began at Asian Paints, where the co-founders Sangeet Kumar, Prateek Jain, Bir Singh, and Satish Kumar Shukla, worked on automating warehouses

In classrooms, teachers put artificial intelligence tutoring bots to test

Drakeford knew that "consonant" might be an unfamiliar word to some students. So she suggested they ask Khanmigo, a new tutoring bot that uses artificial intelligence (AI), for help

Singapore to deploy more police robots in the absence of manpower

After over five years of small-scale trials, Singapore will now progressively deploy more police robots across the city-state

AI won't gain human-like cognition, unless connected to robots: Research

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are unlikely to gain human-like cognition, unless they are connected to the real world through robots and designed using principles from evolution, a study has found. Cognition is the mental process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and senses. The research, published in the journal Science Robotics, found that AI systems will not resemble real brain processing no matter how large their neural networks or the datasets used to train them might become, if they remain disembodied. Researchers from the University of Sheffield in the UK noted that current AI systems, such as ChatGPT, use large neural networks to solve difficult problems, such as generating intelligible written text. These networks teach AI to process data in a way that is inspired by the human brain and also learn from their mistakes in order to improve and become more accurate. Although these models have similarities to the human brain, the ...

New AI-based technology to programme robots to locate lost objects

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) based technology to programme robots to help people locate essential objects such as medicines, glasses, phones and other items they have lost. The researchers want to initially use the technology to help people with dementia, and in future anyone who needs to search for something they have misplaced. "The long-term impact of this is really exciting," said Ali Ayub, a post-doctoral fellow at the the University of Waterloo in Canada. "A user can be involved not just with a companion robot but a personalised companion robot that can give them more independence," Ayub said. Dementia restricts brain function, causing confusion, memory loss and disability. Many people with the condition repeatedly forget the location of everyday objects, which diminishes their quality of life and places additional burden on caregivers. The researchers believe that a companion robot with an episodic memory of its own could be a game-changer i

Technology enhances responsible mining

New technologies have already been deployed in various mining projects. Some coal companies use robot-assisted firefighting and dust suppression technology

Microsoft conducts research on use of ChatGPT to instruct robots, drones

In order to test if people can use ChatGPT to instruct robots without knowing programming languages or understanding robotics systems, Microsoft has conducted research

Indian start up develops specialised robots to clean petrochemical tanks

Indian Start up Develops Specialised Robots to Clean Petrochemical Tanks

Fortis in Bengaluru completes 500 robotic aided urology procedures

The 500 robot-aided surgeries include complex robotic procedures encompassing the entire gamut of Uro-Oncology, Uro-Gynaecology, Reconstructive Urology and Kidney Transplant

Samsung Electronics plans to release human assistant robot 'EX1' in 2023

Samsung Electronics is planning to release a human assistant robot named 'EX1' this year.

Robots now set their sights on a new job: Sewing your blue jeans

The idea of using robots to bring more manufacturing back from overseas gained momentum during the pandemic as snarled supply chains highlighted the risks of relying on distant factories

The rise and rise of conversational AI: What is it and how does it work?

Automating routine and transactional interactions such as account management, order confirmations, returns, and address change with smart bots is on the rise.

Tesla's AI day set to offer a glimpse of its sentient robots: Report

On Friday, Musk will host Tesla's second AI Day in Palo Alto, California, formerly the home to its global headquarters.