BOSTON — One measure of success for a robotics cluster is how much funding its member companies obtain. MassRobotics this month [August 2024] announced that resident startups have raised more than $1 billion since its founding in 2017. “This remarkable achievement underscores the vital role MassRobotics plays in accelerating robotics innovation, commercialization, and adoption of […]
In a recent paper, the authors suggest that AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data points from previous LLM models. Basically, the snake is eating its tail. Generative-AI has been successful in mining the Internet to create large LLM models that provide human-like answers to many problems. In particular, creating new text has […]
The need for robotic surgery is well established, but most systems are still costly to purchase, operate, and maintain, noted Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The company said its technologies can help control those costs, and AMD is already working with leading surgical robot providers. In 2021, almost 644,000 robotic surgeries were performed in the U.S., […]
Boston Dynamics showed off the capabilities of its electric Atlas humanoid in a new video. In the video, Atlas does eight pushups as a quick “warm-up” before work. The company has previously shown the hydraulic version of Atlas performing several stunts, including backflips, dances, parkour, and taking tools through a mock construction site. The post […]
FarmWise is an agtech company pushing the boundaries of automation in agriculture by harnessing the power of computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI). Its flagship product, the Vulcan precision weeding implement, is designed to optimize weed control management on vegetable farms in California, which have been slow to automate due to the complex and versatile […]
After much anticipation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued its first Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standards today. They are intended to defeat efforts by quantum computers powerful enough to decrypt data and communications that have been encrypted mostly using the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem. This is significant step forward and expected to prompt […]
Instead of multipurpose robots, teams of robots can cooperate to execute tasks that would be tedious or hazardous for scarce human workers. However, they typically need to be pre-programmed or directed by centralized software to execute those tasks. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, or UMass Amherst, found that programming robots to create their […]
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been awarded more than 3 million node hours on the nation’s most powerful computers to explore questions around pathogens, climate and energy-efficient microelectronics. The post PNNL Scientists Tap Nation’s Fastest Computers to Explore Critical Science Questions appeared first on HPCwire.
While more automation is sorely needed in agriculture, a number of challenges are still holding back adoption. For one, farmers operate on razor-thin margins, and are always trying to get more out of each crop cycle, noted Kermisch. When introducing new equipment to their operations, farmers are putting immense amounts of trust in robotics developers, […]
To work in a wide range of real-world conditions, robots need to learn generalist policies. To that end, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or MIT CSAIL, have created a Real-to-Sim-to-Real model. The post MIT CSAIL teaches robots to do chores using Real-to-Sim-to-Real appeared first on The Robot […]
