Humans displayed empathy and protective behavior towards AI bots excluded from a virtual ball game as discovered by a study published in i Human Behavior

Construction tech startup Groypus has raised $100 million to scale up its factory that uses robots to make buildings 30% faster than traditional methods.

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Bengaluru start-up’s automated platform detects and fixes machine learning gone wrong

Musk didn’t specify how much users will have to pay but described it as a ‘small amount of money’

The science of sensitive skin: The robotics industry is set to be transformed by a new kind of skin that feels and reacts to touch

Trust leaps enable us to take important steps in our lives, and cross the gap of uncertainty to test and trial new things. Rachel Botsman is the author of Who Can You Trust? and a lecturer at the University of Oxford. She explores and predicts how digital technology is changing the nature of trust – and how that impacts individuals and organisations in a highly-networked world.

What is a robot? Well, it doesn't always look like a human. In fact, different roboticists have different definitions. But most agree that a robot needs to be a physical machine that can sense the world around it, and make at least some decisions on its own. In the next few years, we're going to start seeing robots that make decisions entirely on their own - fully autonomous robots. Many fear that these kind of robots will breed dangerous results: can we trust a robot that makes all decisions for us? Or should humans and robots share the control?

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"I got checkmated in 34 moves." Levy Rozman a.k.a. GothamChess plays chess against Stockfish 16, the strongest chess computer in the world, and analyzes the way it thinks in order to apply it to his own gameplay. With help from computer chess software engineer Gary Linscott, these chess pros identify why Stockfish is virtually unbeatable by a human, from opening move to endgame.The charts depicting minimax with alpha-beta pruning was created by Wikipedia user Maschelos and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.Director: Lisandro Perez-ReyDirector of Photography: Francis BernalEditor: Paul IsaksonTalent: Gary Linscott; Levy RozmanLine Producer: Joseph BuscemiAssociate Producer: Paul Gulyas; Brandon WhiteProduction Manager: D. Eric MartinezProduction Coordinator: Fernando DavilaCamera Operator: Brittany BergerGaffer: Mar AlfonsoSound Mixer: Michael GugginoProduction Assistant: Albie SmithPost Production Supervisor: Alexa DeutschPost Production Coordinator: Ian BryantSupervising Editor: Doug LarsenAssistant Editor: Andy Morell

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Soft robotic structures walk forward, pick up objects, and even dance in response to electric fields

Soft robotic structures walk forward, pick up objects, and even dance in response to electric fields

From scanning hospital entrants to disinfecting hospital areas and floors, robots are being roped in for tasks considered high-risk, says Peerzada Abrar.

Princeton University-based researchers have found that machine-learning programs can acquire the cultural biases embedded in the patterns of wording, from a mere preference for flowers over insects, to discriminatory views on race and gender.

My friend Steve Davee posted this fun project to Instructables. It's a perfect project for shut-in parents and kids to do together.

The main body parts of the bots are keyboard keycaps and Q-tips/cotton swabs. An eccentric weight (pager) motor provides the bouncy movement that makes your vibrobots go.

Dip the swabs in watercolor paints, place the little critter on some paper, and watch your little tabletop Jackson Pollockbot go to town.

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