Looking ahead: Sony's latest robotics project tackles a core challenge in AI: operating reliably in fast-moving physical settings. Ace, an autonomous table tennis system, shows how close that goal is ...

Most people think of Toyota and picture a Camry, a Tacoma, maybe a Prius. A 7-foot-2 robot shooting free throws at halftime of a professional basketball game? That's a harder image to conjure. But ...

A table tennis robot built by Sony maneuvers to hit the ball back to human opponent Akito Saeki during a match in Tokyo. (Sony AI via AP) A few days ago came the astonishing news that the world record ...

A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study that shows how advances in ...

Read the paper: Outplaying elite table tennis players with an autonomous robot For the first time, an AI-powered machine has bested elite-level athletes at a physical sport. ‘Ace’ is a ...

PCWorld argues that Bing serves as a superior alternative to AI-heavy search engines by prioritizing human-authored content over automated summaries. AI search engines like Google’s AI Mode often hide ...

Project Luna — a round screen with a swiveling head that reminds me of Samsung’s “AI OLED Turntable” — offers a glimpse of what’s to come from Samsung’s design, according to chief design officer, ...

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Embodied AI is moving into real-world testing, and China's tech giants are stepping in. The Beijing Yizhuang humanoid robot half-marathon on April 19 is set to serve as a high-profile stress test for ...

A group of researchers from across the US and the UK have conducted a study on what AI does to our brains and the results are, in a word, grim. These results were published in a paper called "AI ...