Browsing: Robotics

While OpenAI is already busy with the development of AI models and new consumer hardware, CEO Sam Altman and his team apparently have time for one more project: a humanoid robot.

Frontier AI systems have the potential to transform biology research and drug discovery by intelligently navigating vast combinatorial search spaces (e.g., a single 100-amino-acid protein spans at least 20100 possible sequences) calling for dynamic multi-candidate exploration. Our long-term research vision is that AI agents will not only ideate and analyze, but also run lab experiments…

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In most factories, automation is fixed: robots and machines are programmed for one specific task and product. Changing a line means reprogramming and physical retooling, or swapping out equipment, which can take weeks or months. San Francisco-based Industrial Next says it’s changing that.

If there’s one lesson the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident taught us, it’s that AI agents can be unpredictable. 

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