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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.Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November 2024, NANCY, FRANCEEnjoy today’s videos! Just when I thought quadrupeds couldn’t impress me anymore...[ Unitree Robotics ]Researchers at Meta FAIR are releasing several new research artifacts that advance ro

There is a strong chance of the president-elect’s radical strategy going wrong, with a high risk of rising prices, inflation and interest ratesBusiness live – latest updatesIt’s the economy, stupid. So said James Carville when he was advising Bill Clinton in his 1992 presidential campaign and the phrase is as true now as it was 32 years ago. Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris this week for the same reason he lost to Joe Biden in 2020: millions of Americans were unhappy about t

Instant boom enjoyed by some sectors belies complex decisions to be made on AI, monopolies and social mediaWhen the US election result pushed shares in the artificial intelligence chip giant Nvidia to a record high and did the same to the price of bitcoin cryptocurrency, the market gave its verdict on what Trump redux means for at least parts of the technology world: a boom.Stock in the electric vehicle (EV) company Tesla surged by nearly 15%, which must have cheered its boss, Elon Musk, whom Tr

Rise in unemployment in low hundreds of thousands as technology creates roles, Tony Blair Institute suggestsArtificial intelligence could displace between 1m and 3m private sector jobs in the UK, though the ultimate rise in unemployment will be in the low hundreds of thousands as growth in the technology also creates new roles, according to Tony Blair’s thinktank.Between 60,000 and 275,000 jobs will be displaced every year over a couple of decades at the peak of the disruption, estimates f

Portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing was created by Ai-Da, one of the most advanced robots in the worldA portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing has become the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction, fetching US$1.08m (£566,000, A$1.63m) in New York on Thursday.The 2.2 metre (7.5 feet) portrait, titled A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing, was created by Ai-Da, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist. It smashed pre-sale expectations between $120,0