Elon Musk hopes supercomputers will boost Tesla and xAI
Elon Musk is on a mission to build new supercomputers. As the CEO of Tesla and his new artificial intelligence startup xAI, the tech titan has big plans for how …
Robotics
It Takes An Army Of Engineers To Make Self-Driving Cars Actually Self-Drive
The race to create a real self-driving car is heating up, with startups like Waymo deploying its autonomous taxis across U.S. cities, billions of dollars being plowed into new technology …
How Amazon is using generative AI to drive more same-day deliveries
For years, Amazon has set the bar for package delivery. When Prime launched in 2005, two-day shipping was unheard of. By 2019, one-day shipping was standard for millions of items. Now, …
The Godmother of AI Wants Everyone to Be a World Builder
According to market-fixated tech pundits and professional skeptics, the artificial intelligence bubble has popped, and winter’s back. Fei-Fei Li isn’t buying that. In fact, Li—who earned the sobriquet the “godmother …
Autonomous Taxis Aren’t The Biggest Threat To Uber, Uber Is
Taxi drivers have been ferrying people around America’s cities for decades with the biggest change to the sector coming when Uber burst onto the scene and made us all rely …
Could This Be the Start of Amazon’s Next Robot Revolution?
In 2012, Amazon quietly acquired a robotics startup called Kiva Systems, a move that dramatically improved the efficiency of its ecommerce operations and kickstarted a wider revolution in warehouse automation. …
We Still Haven’t Figured Out How Self-Driving Cars Should Make Life-Or-Death Decisions
Autonomous cars are coming. Slowly. The rosy predictions that we heard back in 2016 proved to be overblown, and research and development have cost companies billions and billions of dollars, …
Tesla Can’t Even Make Full-Self Driving Work In A Tunnel It Built
Tesla, the company that CEO Elon Musk claims will “solve autonomy,” has a problem: It turns out autonomy is hard. The company is totally definitely introducing a fully autonomous robotaxi …
Tesla’s Optimus Robot Can’t Even Compete At Trade Shows
Photo: Tesla Elon Musk recently decided that Tesla is not a car company. It’s a robotics company, and the cars are simply there to pay the bills until folks start …
A robot that gives massages — this is what it looks and feels like
One step inside a spa’s dimly lit room, and I’m already anticipating a serene, therapeutic experience: an hour-long full-body massage that leaves me relaxed and revitalized. But a recent appointment …