Google DeepMind’s new AI models can search the web to help robots complete tasks

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

A robotics startup cofounder shares why most robots likely won't need legs

Diligent Robotics co-founder Vivian Chu said her "minimum viable humanoid" robots are already helping hospital staff save ...

Google’s newest AI models make robots more intelligent and capable than ever before

Google LLC’s DeepMind research unit today announced a major update to a couple of its artificial intelligence models, which are designed to make robots more intelligent. With the update, intelligent ...

Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini Robotics 1.5 AI Models to Power General-Purpose Robots

Google's solution to this problem is a two-model setup. Here, the Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5, a vision-language model (VLM), comes with advanced reasoning and tool-calling capabilitie ...

ABB Robotics Adds Generative AI Assistant to RobotStudio

ABB Robotics has enhanced its industry-leading RobotStudio Suite with the new RobotStudio AI Assistant, harnessing the power ...
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New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.
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Scientists build insect-inspired robots that float, paddle, and stride on water surfaces

Scientists build insect-inspired soft robots on water using HydroSpread, a new fabrication method for flexible films.

Watch this robot get wrecked by a chainsaw … and then adapt

The remarkable robot dog — or more accurately, its AI-powered brain — can even handle having its legs extended by wooden poles, or having wheels attached. Short of a rocket-propelled grenade coming ...