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28 Jul 2023

A faster way to teach a robot

A new technique helps a nontechnical user understand why a robot failed, and then fine-tune it with minimal effort to perform a task effectively. The background is blue and shows a pattern of coffee mugs. In the foreground on the left, a human hand holds a Tim the Beaver coffee mug. To the right of that, a robotic hand holds another Tim mug. Caption:Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have developed a technique that enables a human to efficiently fine-tune a robot that failed to complete a desired task— like picking up a unique mug— with very little effort on the part of the human. Credits:Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT with images from iStock and The Coop Imagine purchasing a robot to perform [...]

07 Jul 2023

L’étrange petit robot de bureau sous Android

Li Ming, ancien de Xiaomi, a lancé avec sa startup JoyfulRobotics un robot de bureau interactif, doté d'un système Android modifié appelé GeeUI, offrant une gamme de fonctionnalités. Ce gadget high-tech, bien que surprenant, promet une personnalisation quasi infinie, des interactions haptiques et gestuelles. En 2017, la technologie domestique avait une prédilection pour les robots. Ces assistants mécaniques à la promesse futuriste n’ont cependant jamais véritablement percé dans le grand public, vous le savez. Mais aujourd’hui, Li Ming, un ancien de Xiaomi, veut redonner vie à cette technologie avec sa startup JoyfulRobotics et son nouveau robot de bureau. Un compagnon de bureau interactif Le robot de JoyfulRobotics est un compagnon de bureau immobile. C’est un petit objet équipé d’un écran [...]

01 Jun 2023

Amazon’s working on a secret new home robot that could be more like Rosie

As a smart home reviewer of a certain age, all I’ve ever wanted for my home is a Rosie the Robot. The Jetsons’ mechanical housekeeper was the example I held Amazon’s Astro to when I tested the company’s first home robot — and it unsurprisingly failed. Not just because it had no arms, but because it couldn’t really do anything. Now, according to internal documents from Amazon seen by Insider, the company thinks it has found the keys to unlock Astro’s potential. Burnham is a secret new AI robot project Amazon is developing that, according to the documents, adds a layer of “intelligence and a conversational spoken interface” to a smart home robot, reports Insider. An upgraded Astro powered by [...]