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Google DeepMind (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) unveiled two new artificial intelligence models on Thursday that the tech company says will allow robots to utilize the internet to perform certain tasks.

Robots are being put through all kinds of abuse these days. They’re being kicked, punched, shoved, and even dragged by a chain around their neck — all in an apparent effort to teach them how to adapt ...

The new Gemini Robotics 1.5 models enable robots to carry out multistep tasks and even learn from each other. The new Gemini Robotics 1.5 models enable robots to carry out multistep tasks and even ...

Generative AI systems that create text, images, audio, and even video are becoming commonplace. In the same way AI models output those data types, they can also be used to output robot actions. That's ...

ABS and Persona AI inked an MOU to develop inspection technologies for Persona AI’s humanoid robot platform deployment in shipyards. Humanoid robots are suited to operate in shipyards designed for ...

Robots are just about everywhere these days: circling the grocery store, cleaning the floor at the airport, making deliveries. Not to mention the robots on the assembly lines in factories. But how far ...

Robin the Robot visits with a patient at the HealthBridge Orange Specialty Pediatric Hospital in Orange, Calif., on Sept. 12, 2025. Damian Dovarganes / AP Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan’s 6-year-old ...

Realbotix’s “Aria” Celebrates First U.S. Location and Grand Opening for tm:rw Realbotix, in partnership with tm:rw, will be showcasing a full-bodied conversational AI robot at 220 W. 42nd Street, New ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Syntaxx the AI robot has no plans of taking over the world, he says. “I don’t have any plans for world domination,” he told News 8. “My purpose is to assist, provide ...

Shares of Shenzhen-based Orbbec have surged more than 315% over the past year, propelling Howard Huang, its 45-year-old founder, into the three-comma club. In 2013, Howard Huang, a trained engineer ...

WORLD IN MIDTOWN SACRAMENTO. LAUNDROMAT IS NOW THE FIRST IN NORTH AMERICA TO USE AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ROBOT. THE OWNERS SAY THAT IT FOLDS CLOTHES, AND IT MAKES THE WORKLOAD A LITTLE BIT LIGHTER.