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Aurora begins driverless commercial trucking in Texas
Aurora Innovation Inc. launched a commercial self-driving trucking service in Texas. The deployment will provide autonomous freight transportation between Dallas and Houston. The post Aurora begins driverless commercial trucking in Texas appeared first on The Robot...
Vine robot from MIT can squeeze through rubble to help emergency responders
Researchers at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame, have created a vine-like robot that can squeeze between rubble. The robot could ease emergency responders’ burden following disastrous structural collapses. The post Vine...
New Study Warns of Catastrophic Overtraining in Large Language Models
The race to build ever-larger language models is being driven by the assumption that more pre-training data equals better performance. It’s no surprise that AI companies have been scrambling to find enough quality data to train their AI models, often resorting to...
Building robots can be a pain: 6 reasons you should let someone else do it
Imagine you’re tasked with building a robot—an autonomous system designed for industrial precision. You’ve spent months just trying to find the requisite talent. Your mechanical engineering team was relatively easy to assemble, but when it comes to the specialized...
Do You Own Your Cloud Data? Third-Party Doctrine Says No
Your data is yours, right? It seems like a simple question, but thanks to a little-known loophole in federal law, US regulators are can access your private data without a warrant as long as it’s being stored by a third party. The so-called “third-party doctrine” could...
GenCyber: Exploring Cybersecurity Careers
For the fifth year, Texas A&M University High Performance Research Computing (TAMU-HPRC) is sponsoring two GenCyber Camps for students entering grades 8-12. The camps will be held June 2-6 and June 23-27 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. on the Texas A&M campus in...
Top 10 robotics developments of April 2025
April 2025 was full of big changes for the robotics industry, including shake-ups at large companies, new deployments, and the announcement of this year’s RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards. In addition, the month closed with the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston....
Case Study: Optimizing Network Resilience with Quantum Computing
Telecom networks power modern digital infrastructure—from everyday calls to massive data transfers. Even under normal conditions they’re difficult to maintain, and crises like equipment failures or natural disasters demand swift, effective responses. The post Case...
3 women share advice for navigating the robotics industry
Women are an underrepresented group within the robotics industry. Today, women make up 48% of the total workforce and just 34% of the STEM workforce, according to the National Girls Collaborative Project. When it comes to engineering and robotics roles, the number is...
Carnegie Mellon Expands AI Research with Google-Powered Cloud GPU Cluster
As the birthplace of artificial intelligence (AI) and a global leader in frontier AI research, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has selected Google Public Sector as its partner for large-scale computing. This collaboration will enable CMU’s world-class research to...
The future of flight: How autonomous systems are shaping the next generation of UAVs
Autonomous systems are rewriting the playbook for unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. What was once the domain of science fiction is now unfolding. Drones are flying themselves, making split-second decisions, and executing missions with a level of precision no human...
When will we get the ChatGPT of robotics? The future of embodied AI is bright
With the success of generative AI, there has been much discussion around the potential for bringing the kind of flexible intelligence found in large language models into the physical world. This is often called “embodied AI,” and it is one of the most profoundly...