Robot

Researchers at the University of Maryland’s Small Artifacts Lab are working on a “wearable robot” called Calico. It appears that you sew a magnetic track onto your clothing, which Calico uses to run up and down your body.

When we wrote about Engineered Arts’ Ameca android last year, the company said it wants to integrate chatbot functionality, and since then it has done so, using one of the most prominent chatbots, ChatGPT-3 (GPT-4 was too slow). In his conversation with The Verge, Engineered Arts CEO Will Jackson said:

Intrinsic revealed Intrinsic Flowstate on Monday, which it describes as “an intuitive, web-based developer environment to build robotic applications from concept to deployment.” You can watch Intrinsic’s product keynote, which explains more about Flowstate, right here.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts seems it’s going to be busy as hell trying to give Beast Wars stans what they want, but this new clip of the Autobots and Maximals squaring off in the jungle could honestly be the whole movie, and it’d be incredible.

Amazon’s Astro is now $1,599 and still requires an invite; the company originally said it’d go from $999 to $1,449 once the invite-only period was over.

A startup named Figure has come out of stealth and is promising to build a humanoid similar to the much-hyped Tesla Bot.

This is, to me, a perfect Lego video — just a person putting bricks together to make a fun and clever idea, then showing it in action.

Boston Dynamics is best know for Spot and Atlas, but don’t forget the company also sells Stretch — a machine does what we think of as “proper work,” aka moving boxes in warehouses.

Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robots have come a long way, but if they can’t turn everything and anything into a jump shot or dunk, then they still have a long way to go.

It’s not quite as proficient as that one drumming mascot, but it’s still fun to watch this Xiaomi robot play some beats. Now somebody teach it some rudiments.

Just in case you missed Elon Musk’s “show and tell” about brain-computer interfaces last night, we have the key details for you, viewable in less than 15 minutes.

NASA and the European Space Agency are developing a plan to bring interplanetary rock samples — already collected by the Perseverance rover — from Mars back to Earth by 2033.

Only the strong survive, robot. Choo choo! I’m a train.

The overprotective android horror flick M3gan (stands for Model 3 Generative Android) has a new release date. Charles Pulliam-Moore described its trailer as “serving Small Wonder with a side of murder” — you can watch it right here and judge for yourself.

The company’s latest dance video shows Spot and Atlas dancing to a 2021 BTS single. It’s interesting to see Boston Dynamic’s robots given the livery of parent company Hyundai, and with the BTS lads getting conscripted, perhaps the robots will take their place? At least it’d be an ethical use-case for AI in war.

Vaskange is an artist that uses the Endless Paper app to create lovely little worlds of “infinite” depth. Here’s just one example.