Published on: 2025-04-23 11:57:38
When the spring semester began, Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith felt good. Two of her online classes were completely full, boasting 32 students each. Even the classes’ waitlists, which fit 20 students, were maxed out. That had never happened before. “Teachers get excited when there’s a lot of interest in their class. I felt like, ‘Great, I’m going to have a whole bunch of students who are invested and learning,’’ Smith said. “But it quickly became clear that was not the case.” B
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 03:26:35
“Mooooo.” This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind the ears. “I wonder where the farmer is,” remarks my guide, Jan Jacobs. Jacobs doesn’t seem especially worried, though—the several hundred cows in this barn are being well cared for by a small fleet of fully autonomous robots, and the farmer might not be back for hours. The robots will l
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 03:00:00
As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of total industrial robots active to above 4 million, per IFR. Industrial robots typically excel at repetitive tasks, but they find it challenging to perform precise tasks, handle delicate materials, and adjust to changing conditions — a robot in a restaurant’s kitchen would get in the way more
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 07:33:38
On Friday, Feb 7, 2025 we had an incident with our Next.js web app hosted on Vercel that could've cost us $7,000 if we didn't notice it in time. We had a spike in LLM bot traffic coming from Amazonbot, Claudebot, Meta and an unknown bot. Together they sent 66.5k requests to our site within a single day. Bots scraped thousands of images that used Vercel's Image Optimization API, which cost us $5 per 1k images. The misconfiguration on our side combined with the aggressive bot traffic created an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 02:00:54
Spoilers for “The Robot Revolution.” The start of any season of Doctor Who is important, doubly so when there’s a new co-star to introduce. “The Robot Revolution” has to get us to fall in love with Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu), ensnare new fans and keep existing ones hooked. Especially since it’s the second of two series that Disney paid for, meaning it’s got to do well enough to keep the money flowing. We open “17 years ago” with Belinda Chandra staring at the stars next to her boyfriend, A
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 15:23:58
DoorDash has started robot deliveries in Los Angeles and Chicago . This is thanks to a partnership with the company Coco Robotics . Eligible customers will be able to receive sidewalk deliveries sourced from over 600 participating merchants. Coco robots have been making deliveries for DoorDash in Helsinki since late last year through its international sub-brand Wolt. DoorDash says that Coco robots completed over 100,000 deliveries during this initial pilot phase. Robots take humans out of the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 02:00:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More More than 40% of corporate fraud is now AI-driven, designed to mimic real users, bypass traditional defenses and scale at speeds that overwhelm even the best-equipped SOCs. In 2024, nearly 90% of enterprises were targeted, and half of them lost $10 million or more. Bots emulate human behavior and create entire emulation frameworks, synthetic identities, and behavioral
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 19:32:00
In brief: Amazon isn't the only company filling its warehouses with humanoid robots – much to the concern of real human workers. GXO Logistics, a global contract logistics company that provides supply chain services to businesses around the world, is also testing these autonomous machines in its facilities. GXO Logistics signed a multi-year agreement with Agility Robotics last year to begin deploying Digit in its operations. Digit, you may recall, is the 5-foot 9-inch, 140-pound humanoid robot
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 11:39:15
Boston Dynamics Inc. and Hyundai Motor Group yesterday announced plans to deepen their partnership, which includes Hyundai purchasing “tens of thousands” of robots in the coming years. The automaker will also help Boston Dynamics grow by integrating its manufacturing capabilities with Boston Dynamics. Hyundai said it is already deploying Spot robots for industrial inspection and predictive maintenance at its facilities. The Seoul, South Korea-based company plans to deploy Atlas across its facto
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 20:13:49
is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Though Superman is clearly going to get the living daylights beat out of him at some point in James Gunn’s upcoming DC Studios feature, the movie’s latest trailer puts a spotlight on how the Man of Steel gets put back together again. During its presentation at this year’s CinemaCon, Warner Bros. shared an extended sneak peek from the
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Forward-looking: Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have unveiled a flying robot that mimics the agility and precision of a bumblebee. Weighing just 21 milligrams and measuring less than one centimeter in diameter, it is the world's smallest wireless robot capable of controlled flight. "Bees exhibit remarkable aeronautical abilities, such as navigation, hovering, and pollination,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 04:47:38
“We’d trained models to help robots with specific tasks and to understand natural language before, but this was a step change,” Carolina says. “The robot had never seen anything related to basketball, or this specific toy. Yet it understood something complex — ‘slam dunk the ball’ — and performed the action smoothly. On its first try.” This all-rounder robot was powered by a Gemini Robotics model that is part of a new family of multimodal models for robotics. The models build upon Gemini 2.0 th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 07:06:06
On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia's servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up terabytes of data, growing the foundation's bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content by 50 percent since January 2024. It’s a scenario familiar across the free and open source software (FOSS) community, as we've previously detailed. The Foundation hosts not only Wikipedia but also platforms lik
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The Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects, said on Wednesday that bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads from Wikimedia Commons has surged by 50% since January 2024. The reason, the outfit wrote in a blog post Tuesday, isn’t due to growing demand from knowledge-thirsty humans, but from automated, data-hungry scrapers looking to train AI models. “Our infrastructure is built to sustain sudden traffic spikes fr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 23:15:26
A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot. At less than a centimeter in wingspan, the wirelessly powered robot is currently very limited in how far it can travel away from the magnetic fields that drive its flight. However, the scientists who developed it suggest there are ways to boost its range, which could lead to potential applications such as search and rescue operations, inspecting damaged machinery in industrial settings, and even plant po
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 22:00:05
The internet: a once wacky world of strange forums and obscure memes, a tool to harness the sum total of human knowledge at a moment's notice. At least, that was before AI slop ruined everything. To feed data-hungry AI models, companies and individuals are deploying a growing army of AI "web crawlers," bots tasked with sifting the internet for text, pictures, and other data. Once set loose, these bots bog down web servers, destroy search engines, and flood rival crawlers with AI babble. Thanks
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 05:52:30
In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Unitree's G1 robot at the Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 6, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images American tech giants like Tesla and Nvidia are racing to develop humanoid robots, stressing their importance to the future economy. But analysts warn they are already at risk of losing out to China. So-called humanoid robots — artificial intelligence-powered machines designed to resemble humans in app
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 07:27:39
AI web crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many software developers believe. Some devs have started fighting back in ingenuous, often humorous ways. While any website might be targeted by bad crawler behavior – sometimes taking down the site – open source developers are “disproportionately” impacted, writes Niccolò Venerandi, developer of a Linux desktop known as Plasma and owner of the blog LibreNews. By their nature, sites hosting free and open source (FOSS) projects share mor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 22:02:56
Botswana’s first satellite, BOTSAT-1, was successfully launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9—Transporter 13 rideshare mission on Saturday, March 15, 2025, from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, USA. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off the Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at 06:39 am GMT, carrying 74 satellites. These included BOTSAT-1, 26 satellites as part of the Transporter-13 rideshare mission, and a trio of CubeSats for NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) mission; Arvaker 1, the first mic
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Botswana’s first satellite, BOTSAT-1, was successfully launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9—Transporter 13 rideshare mission on Saturday, March 15, 2025, from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, USA. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off the Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at 06:39 am GMT, carrying 74 satellites. These included BOTSAT-1, 26 satellites as part of the Transporter-13 rideshare mission, and a trio of CubeSats for NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) mission; Arvaker 1, the first mic
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 02:39:51
OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab last week released two new studies aimed at exploring the effect of AI chatbots on loneliness. The results are complicated, but they also line up with what we now know about social media: Chatbots can make people lonely, but the people who reported feeling more alone after heavy use of an AI tended to feel pretty alone before they started. To do the studies, OpenAI turned over almost 40 million interactions its users had with ChatGPT to researchers at MIT. In the fi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 09:00:00
One often-repeated phrase at this year's Nvidia GTC was "Physical AI," the kind of AI that allows robots to operate effectively in the physical world. To get there, Nvidia offers its Isaac GR00T N1, an open-source foundation model that is pre-trained with some of the basics and broken down into a fast system for taking action and a slow system for planning action. Demonstration of how teleoperation can be useful in teaching robots new skills Nvidia For teaching robots new tasks, lots of varie
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 00:49:02
A chart illustrates that the longer people spend with ChatGPT, the likelier they are to report feelings of loneliness and other mental health risks. (MIT/OpenAI) New research from OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization. Will AI companies learn from social networks' mistakes? This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic, and I also co-host a podcast at the New York Times, which is suing OpenAI and Microsoft over allegations of
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Chinese robotics company Dobot has shown off its humanoid robot, dubbed Atom, preparing a sumptuous breakfast. The video, titled "Rise and Shine with Atom, Your New Breakfast Buddy!" shows the robot using its long, flexible arms to place pieces of ham, sausages, slices of toast, and cherries onto a plate. The robot even poured a glass of milk and lifted the tray for serving. "Add some cherries, too," an American-accented voiceover says. "Such thin stems won't trouble me. Just two fingers are e
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-30 15:31:07
5 min read Today, we’re excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives. When you opt in, Cloudflare will automatically deploy an AI-generated set of linked pages when we detect inappropriate bot activity, without the need for customers to create any custom rules. AI Labyrinth is available on an opt-in basis to all customers, including
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 20:17:38
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Cloudflare, one of the biggest network internet infrastructure companies in the world, has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots that scrape sites for AI training data without permission. The company says in a blog post that when it detects “inappropriate bot behavior,” the free, opt-in tool lures crawlers down a path of links to AI
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 10:45:57
Speakers: Rachel Courtland, commissioning editor, Rhiannon Williams, news reporter, and Eileen Guo, features & investigations reporter. Chatbots are quickly changing how we connect to each other and ourselves. But are these changes for the better? How should they be monitored and regulated? Hear from MIT Technology Review editor Rachel Courtland in conversation with reporter Rhiannon Williams and senior reporter Eileen Guo as they unpack the landscape around chatbots. Related Coverage
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 01:50:49
Three days ago, Drew DeVault - founder and CEO of SourceHut - published a blogpost called, "Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face", where he complained that LLM companies were crawling data without respecting robosts.txt and causing severe outages to SourceHut. I went, "Interesting!", and moved on. Then, yesterday morning, KDE GitLab infrastructure was overwhelmed by another AI crawler, with IPs from an Alibaba range; this caused GitLab to be temporarily inaccessible by KD
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 22:00:00
Robots are part of an exciting new frontier in tech, but here’s the challenge: robots rely on arrays of sensors, external signals like GPS and Wi-Fi, and customized software to navigate their environments. Further, robotics often involves expensive, ready-made hardware solutions that include built-in software and sensors designed for specific tasks, like estimating relative motion. These products require complex integration and are limited to specific use cases. As a result, most robots today c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 06:39:42
Nvidia is collaborating with Disney Research and Google DeepMind to develop Newton, a physics engine to simulate robotic movements in real-world settings, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at GTC 2025 on Tuesday. Disney will be among the first to use Newton to power its next-generation entertainment robots, like the Star Wars-inspired BDX droids — one of which waddled onstage next to Huang during his Tuesday keynote. Nvidia plans to release an early, open-source version of Newton later in 2025
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