Commercial humanoid robots are coming and here are 10 companies working on bringing them to work alongside humans For a long time, humanoid robots existed only in the world of science fiction. But thanks to advances in robotics and artificial intelligence, humanoid robots can not only walk but also dance…

Welcome to the captivating world of biobots, a cutting-edge field sitting in between robotics and biology that challenges our definitions of what is a robot and what is a living organism. Turning insects and plants into robots One way of creating biobots is by transforming existing organisms into cyborgs. These projects typically follow a similar approach…

As modern AI models push digital computers to their limits, engineers look at ways to improve AI computations in terms of speed and efficiency. One of the paths is to go back to the roots of computing and embrace the analog world Modern AI models are huge. The number of…

The dream of creating humanoid robots — machines built in our image — is not new. Long before the word “robot” was even coined, people told stories of human-like machines. In ancient Greece, Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths, was said to have created several different humanoid automata in various myths…

The excitement around ChatGPT and GPT-4 hasn’t even cooled down and we already have a new shiny toy. Autonomous LLM-based agents, or AutoGPT in short, are the new next big thing in the AI world. Let’s take a closer look at AutoGPT — what it is, what it can do…

One of the most well-known and popular models to manage safety in any system is The Swiss Cheese Model. Sooner or later, every engineer is going to make a mistake. It is inevitable. …

In 1993, Jurrasic Park hit the theatres and showed a future in which genetic engineering advances to the point where we can bring back dinosaurs exactly as they were 65 million years ago. That was 30 years ago, so how close are we to resurrecting dinosaurs? The method shown in…

“Never trust anything you see on the internet” — Abraham Lincoln The history of deepfakes starts in 1997 with Video Rewrite, created by Christoph Bregler, Michele Covell, and Malcolm Slaney. It was the first-ever computer program to fully automate the process of facial re-animation. …

Following Microsoft’s (reportedly) $10B investment into OpenAI, many were expecting ChatGPT integration into Microsoft’s products. This week, Microsoft announced how they will do that. “AI will fundamentally change every software category, starting with the largest category of all — search,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft. …