DAIMON Robotics Wants to Give Robot Hands a Sense of Touch
…We would like to see these manifested in real-world systems. While both AI and core hardware technologies continue to evolve, the focus is much clearer now. For example, human-sized robots…
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Dunking Computers to Keep Them Cool
…In addition, SMC builds sitewide heat-exchange systems, one for each HyperCube. In a traditional data center, in addition to fans attached directly to servers, centralized air conditioning is needed to keep…
Weirdly Fascinating: Robotic Arm Crawls Using Its Three Fingers.
…MIT CSAIL’s Improbable AI Lab Director Pulkit Agrawal explains his “SoftMimic” approach to making robots safer around humans. [ SoftMimic ] I now have absolutely no interest in a humanoid robot for my…
Precision Agriculture Tech Can Address New Fertilizer Shortages
…For Dutch professor Athanasiadis, these systems point in the right direction, but they are not enough on their own. “There are no magic solutions,” he says. “We need sensors, robotics, AI, government…
How a Forgotten Wire Turned a Cheap Chip Into a Brainlike Neuron
…These chips will first be a fit for smaller-scale, “edge-AI” tasks, such as bringing greater intelligence to battery-powered systems. But if we can scale up such chips, maybe in…
Can a Chip That Loves Zeros Make Huge AI Models More Efficient?
…We are also working on systems that can predict the performance of accelerators such as ours, which will help in designing better hardware for sparse AI. Longer term, we’re interested in…
Are Emotion Reading Robots Still Missing What Matters Most?
…On a scale from 0 (no similarity in meaning to the emotion identified by the human volunteers) to 1 (a perfect match in meaning), the conventional AI system achieved a score of…
Finding Success in Industry as a Chip Designer
…In industry, the focus shifts to system-level integration. Modern systems on chips, or SoCs, incorporate dozens or even hundreds of functional blocks. Managing signal integrity, timing, firmware interaction, and system-level…
China’s Humanoid Army Pushes Japan to Rethink Its Robot Future
…While the event in Tokyo only had about 40 robots on display, Chinese systems outnumbered Japanese by roughly three to one. Some Japanese robotics firms were even using Chinese robots in their…
Moltbook Gives Insights into Agentic AI's Messy Future
Moltbook , the first social network for generative AI agents , went live on 28 January, and quickly exploded in popularity. Designed in the style of Reddit, Moltbook is a place AI agents can…