boston dynamics
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Jennifer Lopez’s Mecha Movie Is All About Learning to Love Artificial Intelligence
Everyone’s a little freaked out about AI right now—the ramifications of unregulated tech bro start up culture smashing into industries across the board, from journalism, to science, to entertainment, being turned upside down by the hot new trend. But together, Jennifer Lopez and Netflix boldly ask in Atlas the primordial question: what if learning to…
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This New Robot Is So Far Ahead of Elon Musk’s Optimus That It’s Almost Embarrassing
As if Elon Musk needed yet another reason to hate OpenAI. Figure, a startup that’s partnered with OpenAI to develop a humanoid robot, released a new video on Wednesday. And it’s truly heads above anything Tesla has demonstrated to date with the Optimus robot. The video from Figure, which is available on YouTube, shows a…
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This U.S. State Wants to Ban Gun-Wielding Robots
Bad news for fans of gun-toting killer robots. Massachusetts wants to make Black Mirror fantasies illegal. This week, two state senators proposed a first-of-its-kind bill that, if passed, would prohibit the manufacture, sale, or use of robots with mounted weapons. The bill would also put in place new safeguards prohibiting law enforcement or others from…
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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From a rocket launch to another Tesla recall, here are five things headlining tech news in Australia.