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About a decade ago, there was a lot of excitement in the robotics world around gecko-inspired directional adhesives, which are materials that stick without being sticky using the same van der Waals forces that allow geckos to scamper around on vertical panes of glass. They were used extensively in different sorts of climbing robots, some of them quite lovely. Gecko adhesives are uniquely able to stick to very smooth things where your only other option might be suction, which requires all kinds o

Global executive Nick Clegg says users ‘want to know where the boundary lies’ amid rise in AI-generated contentMeta is working to detect and label AI-generated images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads as the company pushes to call out “people and organisations that actively want to deceive people”.Photorealistic images created using Meta’s AI imaging tool are already labelled as AI, but the company’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, announced in a blo

Britain has announced £10m for regulators but has done very little to mitigate the risks linked with artificial intelligence. Plus, Facebook’s deep-fake Biden conundrum• Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereBritain wants to lead the world in AI regulation. But AI regulation is a rapidly evolving, contested policy space in which there’s little agreement over what a good outcome would look like, let alone the best methods to get