Robots & AI

DARPA just tested an autonomous tank that could help keep soldiers safe — and even more self-driving military vehicles are on the horizon.

New modular, spring-like devices maximize the work of live muscle fibers so they can be harnessed to power biohybrid bots.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office

Everything you need to know about the humanoids that will soon enter the workforce — or are in it already.

Knowledge-based workers already need to skill-up to coexist with sophisticated artificial intelligence technologies.

Juliana Guaqueta Ospina | Education Specialist | International Finance Corporation | World Economic Forum

A partnership between Moderna and OpenAI provides a real-world example of what can happen when a company leans into generative AI.

OpenAI’s most powerful AI model, GPT-4, outperformed junior doctors in deciding how to treat patients with eye problems.

An AI fighter pilot faced off against a human pilot in a “dogfight” using actual planes — a huge milestone in military automation.

AI music generators — AIs that create new music based on users’ text prompts — are lowering the bar for music creation, for better or worse.

Meta has upgraded its AI assistant, Meta AI, with a new LLM (Llama 3) and made it available in far more places.

A day after retiring its hydraulic Atlas robot, Boston Dynamics released a video debuting its all-electric, workplace-ready replacement.

Since AI is chained to linear reasoning, workplaces that embrace it will do well to have neurodivergent colleagues who reason more creatively.

Maureen Dunne

Microsoft is reportedly planning to build a $100 billion data center and supercomputer, called "Stargate," for OpenAI.

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