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Worldwide arrests made as major scamming site taken offline - Tech & Science Daily podcast

All the stories from Thursday’s episode of the Tech & Science Daily podcast.

Evening Standard

Boston Dynamics' Atlas bot is dead and its replacement is horrifying yet fascinating in equal measure

Well, call me both scared and curious. More of the former, as it happens.

PC Gamer

Boston Dynamics reveals its most astonishing humanoid robot so far – and I can’t stop watching it

Boston Dynamic retired the hydraulic Atlas in favor of a new, more human-looking, all-electric model

TechRadar

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Watch a 'robot dog' scramble through a basic parkour course with the help of AI

Scientists used AI neural networks to teach a robot dog new tricks, enabling it to climb wooden crates and hop between them.

LiveScience

Anymal Robot From Switzerland Challenges Boston Dynamics' Spot In Agility

ANYmal, a versatile robot by ETH Zurich, competes with Boston Dynamics' Spot using AI and parkour skills for various applications.

Top News

Chinese scientists build world's fastest humanoid robot — but it's not going to win any sprints just yet

By harnessing a huge amount of torque in its legs, the H1 robot can potentially reach 11 miles per hour at top speed.

LiveScience

World's largest laptop vendor quietly releases robot with six legs — Lenovo Daystar Bot GS is IP-rated and reminds us of Boston Dynamics' andro-dogs

Lenovo's Daystar Bot GS is a six legged industrial robot with an IP66 dust and water protection rating.

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'We face high risk and extremely low chances of success' notes humanoid robot company Figure AI that just got millions from Bezos, OpenAI, and Nvidia

Figure AI wants to build a multi-purpose, humanoid home robot but faces huge hurdles and an incredibly crowded field

TechRadar

Forget making coffee — Boston Dynamics puts Atlas to work lifting heavy automotive struts in latest flex

Boston Dynamics has released footage showing how its flagship Atlas humanoid robot would cope in a factory environment as it lifts heavy struts and puts them into a flow cart.

LiveScience

Elon Musk just teased Telsa’s new Optimus Gen-2 robot with a video featuring a funky treat at the end

Tesla's Optimus Gen-2 has come a long way since the firm's first Bumble-C machine in 2022 and can manipulate delicate objects with its fingers.

LiveScience

Robot dogs have unnerved and angered the public. So why is this artist teaching them to paint?

Agnieszka Pilat calls herself a ‘propaganda artist’ for technology. But when the machines are sold to governments, police and military, what’s the line between art and an ad?

The Guardian - AU

Inside Hyundai’s new sci-fi smart factory – where you can order a car with your smartphone and drive it away in hours

The Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center Singapore opens this month, offering a highly automated approach to vehicle production

TechRadar

AI is already being melded with robotics – one outcome could be powerful new weapons

Interest in the incorporation of robots into security, policing and military operations has been steadily increasing over the last few years. It’s an avenue already being explored in both North America and Europe.

The Conversation

Humanoid robots are here, but they're a little awkward. Do we really need them?

Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction

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Creative Bloq

I hate how much I love this talking AI robot dog

Dystopian reality has never been so silly.

Inverse

Boston Dynamics' Creepy Robot Dog Can Now Talk Thanks to ChatGPT

Boston Dynamics has made the bold move of adding ChatGPT into its Spot robot dog, turning it into a fully interactive tour guide.

Evening Standard

Boston Dynamics reveals talking robot dog that can see, hear and respond to people

The droid can even speak using a posh British accent thanks to an AI-fuelled makeover

Salon

Robot police dogs are on patrol

Numerous cities have acquired dog-like robots for policing. Researchers say the lack of transparency is worrying

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Los Angeles Times

LA City Council votes to accept donation of controversial LAPD robot dog

LOS ANGELES — Amid lingering concerns about surveillance and safety, the Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to accept the donation of a nearly $280,000 dog-like robot for the Police Department's use.

France 24

Are fighting robots being manufactured in the United States? Nope, it’s special effects

Are there really robots ready to take over the world? The robot who appears in a viral video looks ready to do just that when he does a showy backflip and throws a few punches. A number of posts online claimed that the robot was made by Boston Dynamics, an…

The Guardian - AU

‘Cool time to be making shit’: why artist Illma Gore is optimistic about the rise of AI

She’s being sued by Marilyn Manson and is hated by Trump supporters but the Brisbane provocateur is focusing on the bright side

Reason

New York City Brings Back Dystopian Robot Police Dogs

'Digidog is out of the pound," New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared, not ominously.

The Guardian - AU

Robot dogs among 100 artists to be unleashed on Melbourne for 2023 NGV Triennial

Painter Agnieszka Pilat and her trained robots join a lineup that includes Yoko Ono, Tracey Emin and fashion house Schiaparelli

ABC News

NGV Triennial will see Boston Dynamics robot dogs set up studio in the National Gallery of Victoria over summer

A trio of finger-painting robot dogs share star billing with Yoko Ono and fashion house Schiaparelli in the blockbuster NGV Triennial, featuring more than 100 artists from around the world.

Daily Mirror

Commuters absolutely stunned to see robot dog trotting along train platform

The robot, named 'Bernard', shocked commuters as it casually trotted onto the platform and caught a train on the Tyne and Wear Metro

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