Meta is looking to be the go-to marketplace for robo-tech, with the company planning to develop its own humanoid robot hardware and later become a lead developer of the robots’ AI-based backbone. The effort will be spearheaded by a new hardware division in Meta’s Reality Labs (Quest VR and Ray-Ban smart glasses), reported Bloomberg, and … Read more
AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those robot voices are being made obsolete by new AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance … Read more
This robot can also dive and come back to the surface. Faster flapping results in strong downward waves that will push the robot upward, while slower flapping creates weaker upward waves that allow it to go further down. (Actual mantas sink if they slow down.) It also proved it could fetch a payload from the … Read more
