A Filmmaker Made a Sam Altman Deepfake—and Got Unexpectedly Attached

The director of “Deepfaking Sam Altman” created a “Sam Bot” when he couldn’t get an interview with the OpenAI CEO. Watch an ...
New Atlas

When a robot cop tells you to stop, do you listen? China is now finding out

Hangzhou is the latest city in China to take traffic control to a new level, rolling out a new AI-powered robot police officer to direct vehicles and pedestrians at a major intersection and issue ...
Futurism

Sam Altman Uses His New Image Generator to Show Himself As a Jacked Fireman With Washboard Abs… With an Absolutely Hilarious Error

The image was generated with the just-released new version of ChatGPT Images, GPT Image 1.5. OpenAI claims the new model ...
eWeek

‘Robot, Build It’: MIT’s New AI Lets You Build Real Objects Just by Describing Them

MIT researchers built an AI robotic system that turns plain-language prompts into 3D designs and assembles objects with ...
New York Magazine

The Droids Taking Over One of England’s Strangest Towns

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. On a languid summer afternoon, I drive to Milton Keynes, a midsize city 60 miles northwest of London and a few miles ...
Los Angeles Times

Inside the race to train AI robots how to act human in the real world

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In an Indian town, workers fold towels while wearing cameras, providing data to teach AI robots how to move and ...
Mashable

3 new Litter-Robots were just announced, including one geared toward small spaces

It's been three years since a new Litter-Robot came out, but the iconic self-scooping litter box lineup is finally evolving once again. Whisker unveiled the Litter-Robot 5 lineup on Oct. 21, ...
Palm Beach Post

Robotic rabbits are deployed in South Florida python hot spots to fight snake explosion

The robots mimic the movements and body temperature of real rabbits, a favored prey of pythons. The project is funded by the South Florida Water Management District and builds upon previous research ...
a-z-animals

Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits to Kill Invasive Burmese Pythons

The exotic pet trade can be blamed for the invasion of the Burmese python in the United States. ©Heiko Kiera/Shutterstock.com The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is native to Southeast Asia but ...
New York Post

Clumsy, child-sized robot with dreams of being a doctor put to work at NYC clinic

This guy makes R2D2 look cuddly. A child-sized robot with dreams of being a doctor is working its way up the ranks at a Big Apple vein treatment clinic — and might one day be the one wielding the ...
Golf Digest

Do you need more speed to add 20 yards? Our robot test suggests otherwise

Welcome to MythBusters, a Golf Digest+ series where we explore answers to some of golf’s most common questions through a series of tests with golfers and robots. Sometimes definitive, other times less ...
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Robot rabbits trick snakes to control invasive python population

Florida officials deploy robot rabbits to control the invasive Burmese python population. Scientists from the South Florida Water Management District and the University of Florida have teamed up to ...