Through artificial intelligence (AI), scientists have now learned that we may have a completely new and as yet unidentified subspecies of archaic human ancestors after AI’s prediction of this new group, which was picked up by evolutionary biologists in…
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At Nvidia’s new robot lab in Seattle, UW professor Dieter Fox is betting that a run-of-the-mill Ikea kitchen is the perfect test bed for his next-gen robots.
This week, the computer chip company Nvidia opened a new robotics lab in…
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Amazon is launching a new conference dedicated to AI, robotics and automation, with demonstrations, talks and workshops on the future of technology.
The conference is a follow-on from the company’s MARS (Machine learning, Automation, Robotics and Space) event – an expenses-paid,…
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SeeTree, a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses drones and artificial intelligence to bring precision agriculture to their groves, today announced that it has raised an $11.5 million Series A funding round led by Hanaco Ventures, with participation from previous…
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Researchers have designed a robot operating system that can process and understand how-to instructions, and put them into action, Science News reports.
Dileep George, an artificial intelligence and neuroscience researcher at Vicarious AI in San Francisco, and colleagues have programmed a…
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We’re very excited to announce our first guests for this year’s TC Sessions: Robotics. TechCrunch is returning to the U.C. Berkeley campus again this April for another full-day session delving into all aspects of robotics. As we mark…
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos takes a stroll with a SpotMini robot dog. (Jeff Bezos via Twitter)
Amazon’s annual invitation-only event on machine learning, automation, robotics and space — known as Mars — has become a high-tech highlight for insiders, featuring billionaire founder and…
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All most of us will see from Jeff Bezos’s secretive MARS conference are a few photo shoots of the world’s richest man attempting to look as cool as possible around some very cool robotics. This summer, however, Amazon…
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