Gear News of the Week: Honor Teases a Bizarre Robot Phone, and Kohler Debuts a Toilet Sensor

Plus: Coros has a new mountain watch, July unveils a trackable suitcase, Fujifilm has a new Instax, GrapheneOS will work on ...

Artificial intelligence learns to drive: MarioKart

University of Maryland professor Mumu Xu and her students trained an artificial intelligence model to play the 1992 Nintendo hit Mario Kart as a way to study how self-driving cars and other robots ...

Honor Robot Phone Concept Features A Self-Aware Camera On A Robo-Arm

The Honor Robot Phone combines multimodal intelligence, advanced robotics, and “next-generation imaging" for its concept design.

These Tiny Robots Can Swarm, Adapt, and Heal Themselves

Scientists designed microrobots that use sound to swarm, adapt, and heal themselves — working together like a living organism ...
Interesting Engineering

World’s first Robot Phone by Honor looks and acts like a pocket-sized 'Wall-E'

The Robot Phone concept from Honor turns a smartphone into an AI-powered companion with a giggling, motorized camera that ...
CNET

I Need Honor's Outlandish Robot Phone With a Self-Aware, Pop-Up Camera to Be Real

What do you get if you cross an AI-powered phone with a DJI Osmo camera? The answer is something akin to the Robot Phone, which Chinese tech company Honor is developing. The phone-maker teased the ...

What I Learned Watching a Humanoid Robot Do Laundry

For Hock Tan, Broadcom’s CEO, the OpenAI deal is just the latest milestone in a bull year that has seen his company’s stock ...
Yardbarker

The most famous robots, android and cyborgs from movies and TV

In real life, robots are pretty simple. They are just, like, an arm putting cars together or what have you. In movies and TV, though, robots have long been intelligent. They’ve had personalities. They ...
Wall Street Journal

China Is Winning the Race for AI Robots

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. While the U.S. celebrates its dominance in artificial-intelligence software, China is quietly ...
Business Insider

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

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UMass Lowell

Can Artificial Intelligence and Robots Help Ease the Affordable Housing Crisis?

More than 220,000 new homes need to be built in Massachusetts over the next decade to address the growing housing affordability crisis, according to a recent assessment by the commonwealth. To help ...
KGUN 9

Pima JTED adds artificial intelligence program and new robot in robotics program

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — In JTED’s robotics lab, Carlos Trujillo played around with a new robotic arm. It’s students like him who are getting real-world experience with the newly added Fanuc robotic arm ...