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Union at country’s largest carmaker wants greater say over how AI and automation are introduced
China’s e-commerce giant JD.com is preparing for a future where packages are delivered by robots instead of people. The company’s founder and chairman, Richard Liu, expects robots will “sooner or later” take over deliveries from the company’s roughly 700,000 couriers. “It will definitely be robots delivering packages. But I really don’t want our 700,000 brothers to go without food and without jobs,” Liu said at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Forum, according to the Financial Times. He did not provide a more specific timeframe for the change. As part of the transition, Liu said JD.com has entered into agreements with about 120 schools to retrain couriers for new professions, including the repair and maintenance of robots. The number of gig workers in China — including delivery drivers, chauffeurs, and factory workers on temporary contracts — is expected to reach about 320 million this year, according to Chinese researchers. At the same time, the youth unemployment rate stands
Researchers combined an efficient algorithm with dedicated hardware to rapidly generate 3D maps for navigation using minimal memory and power.
US autoworkers union warns of robot automation as dark factory future looms.
The platform applies Nvidia’s expertise in autonomous vehicle safety to physical AI.
Insider Brief Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have built software that converts ordinary videos of people using their hands into data that can train robots to perform delicate, multi-fingered tasks. The system, described in a paper posted to the preprint server arXiv, reportedly can take a clip pulled from the web, reconstruct what […]
Will swarms of autonomous aerial vehicles be able to aid humans in wildland firefighting or package delivery? Research summarized in a new paper in Field Robotics represents a big step towards realizing such a future. In this interview, Professor Julie A Adams describes the research showing that one person can supervise more than 100 autonomous […]
China’s rapid adoption of technology threatens millions of gig-economy jobs, policymakers fear
T-Rex's real-time tactile response could revolutionize robotics, enhancing adaptability in dynamic environments and advancing automation capabilities. The post Researchers from UC Berkeley, Nvidia, and Stanford unveil T-Rex framework for robots to respond to physical contact in real time appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
MicroAGI's innovative data collection for AI training raises privacy concerns and regulatory scrutiny, impacting the future of robotics development. The post Micro AGI sends free cleaning staff to NYC apartments for AI training appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
A burgeoning genre of fictional AI doomsday scenarios says lagging behind on the technology could threaten the continent’s sovereignty It’s 2031 and the US and China are about to tear Europe into pieces. The US ploughed vast sums into datacentres and the EU did not. China built robots and Europe did not. American companies “restructured” their workflows around AI and fired people, while EU workers went on long lunch breaks and handed over administrative tasks to the AI model Claude. Continue reading...
The era of physical AI has arrived. Robots are no longer demonstration projects confined to research labs or factory cages — they are working in live BMW production lines, completing millions of autonomous rides on city streets, inspecting nuclear power plants, and beginning to fold laundry in private homes. The global robotics sector raised $27.6 billion in […]
Insider Brief MIT researchers have developed a memory system that allows robots to remember detailed information about large environments and retrieve it using natural-language questions. The study, led by Nicolas Gorlo, a graduate student at MIT, along with Luca Carlone, associate professor in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and director of the MIT SPARK […]
The Stanford professor’s work gives autonomous systems new frameworks for tackling complex tasks.