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“Thousands of stunned guests were on hand Saturday night to watch a Disneyland malfunction for the ages,” writes SFGate — when a 45-foot-tall animatronic dragon burst into flames, and continued burning for several minutes in front of the stunned …
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The New York Police Department is reenlisting Digidog, the four-legged robot that the city faced backlash for deploying a few years back, as reported earlier by The New York Times. NYC Mayor Eric Adam…
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Researchers have designed a robot that can create and cook a cake with up to seven ingredients, more than any other printed food to date. The scientists built their programmable patisserie by retrofit…
In a blog post shared last week, Ingka, the legal entity responsible for most of Ikea’s stores, says it now has a total of 100 autonomous drones counting stock in its warehouses during nonoperational hours. The Verge reports: Ikea first partnered with …
Dr Sateesh Reddy, Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri and Former Chairman, DRDO reviewed the development of the robots that Svaya has undertaken to develop with DRDO inputsHyderabad: Hyderabad-based Svaya Robotics in collaboration with DRDO Labs – Research and Development Establishment, Pune (R&DE) and Defence Bio-engineering and Electro Medical Laboratory, Bengaluru (DEBEL), has developed
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveiled PaLM-E, a multimodal embodied visual-language model (VLM) with 562 billion parameters that integrate…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A revolution in artificial intelligence could slash the amount of time people spend on household chores and caring, with robots able to perform about 39% of domestic tasks within a decade, accordin…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: It is the children’s toy, invented in Britain, that inspired a passion for engineering, science and technology in generations of youngsters — and their parents. Meccano building sets filled with r…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard, written by Katie Way: MILF Manor is a reality TV show made to be dissected on the internet. Everything, from its ripped-from-30-Rock title to the Oedipal set-up of mothers and their sons thrown into…
A newly published study co-authored by MIT economist Daron Acemoglu “quantifies the extent to which automation has contributed to income inequality in the U.S.,” reports SciTechDaily, “simply by replacing workers with technology — whether self-ch…