• Video Friday: Reachy 2

    Video Friday: Reachy 2
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAEICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARKCybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024, ZURICHHumanoids 2024: 22–24 November 2024, NANCY, FRANCEEnjoy today’s videos! At ICRA 2024, we sat
  • Elon Musk’s Beer-Pouring Optimus Robots Are Not Autonomous

    Elon Musk’s Beer-Pouring Optimus Robots Are Not Autonomous
    The robots were interacting with guests at Tesla's big Cybercab event Thursday in L.A.
  • ‘They don’t just fall out of trees’: Nobel awards highlight Britain’s AI pedigree

    ‘They don’t just fall out of trees’: Nobel awards highlight Britain’s AI pedigree
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  • Australia’s spy chief warns AI will accelerate online radicalisation

    Australia’s spy chief warns AI will accelerate online radicalisation
    Asio boss Mike Burgess says social media impact is a ‘step-change’ in the threat posed by extremismGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe head of Australia’s peak intelligence agency has warned that people like the Christchurch terrorist are being radicalised on social media, and artificial intelligence is likely to make it much worse.The director general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (Asio), Mike Burgess, told a social media summi
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