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Robot Dogs And Drones Used To Protect UK Heritage

Mar 13, 2025 | Drones, Robots, UK

Robot dogs and drones could be used if a disaster like 1984’s devastating fire at York Minster was to happen at a major heritage site today, Historic England has said. A lightning strike at the minster was believed to have sparked the catastrophic blaze which...

Deepmind AI Models Help Robots Perform Physical Tasks, Even Without Training

Mar 13, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Training

Google DeepMind is launching two new AI models designed to help robots “perform a wider range of real-world tasks than ever before.” The first, called Gemini Robotics, is a vision-language-action model capable of understanding new situations, even if it hasn’t been...

Robots And Humans Will Compete With Each Other In The First Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon

Mar 7, 2025 | Robots

On April 13, humanoid robots are set to compete in the first-ever half-marathon featuring both humans and humanoid robots racing against each other in Beijing. The Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, which is hosting the race, announced details for the...

Figure’s Humanoid Robot Will Do Your Chores With Voice Commands

Mar 6, 2025 | Robots

Figure’s latest AI system, Helix, is changing the game for humanoid robots by allowing them to perform complex tasks through simple voice commands—no training required. In a new demo, two robots successfully put away groceries by scanning their environment, adapting...

Scientists Build Robot To Track Plant-Fungal Trade Networks, Revealing Nature’s Underground Supply Chains

Feb 27, 2025 | Robots

New research published in the journal Nature on February 26, 2025, uses advanced robotics to track the hyper-efficient supply chains formed between plants and mycorrhizal fungi as they trade carbon and nutrients across the complex, living networks...

Autonomous Robots Track Plankton In The Arctic Ocean

Feb 20, 2025 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Oceanography, Robots

It’s spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean. Long bright days and rising temperatures have awakened the phytoplankton. The spring bloom has begun, and populations of these tiny...