Category: Robotics
Humanoid ‘Lightning’ robot smashes the half-marathon record
An autonomous scarlet robot named “Lightning” finished a 13-mile race in Beijing on Sunday in just 50 minutes and 26 seconds, less than half the time of last year’s fastest robot, which took two hours and 40 minutes. As Reuters reports, Du Xiaodi, one of the engineers who developed Lightning at smartphone company Honor, said […]
Robots beat human records at Beijing half-marathon
The winning time is a massive improvement over last year’s race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 minutes.
AGIBOT deploys semi-humanoid robots in electronics manufacturing
Longcheer has integrated multiple AGIBOT G2 robots into its tablet production lines, and plans to deploy 100 by Q3 2026.
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Ouster releases Stereolabs ZED X Nano wrist-mounted camera
Ouster’s ED X Nano camera mounts directly onto robotic wrists and end-of-arm tooling, where every millimeter matters.
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How AI “Sycophancy” Warps Human Judgment
A new study finds that AI chatbots are “sycophants” that affirm users 49% more than humans do. This constant flattery makes users more certain of their own biases and less likely to repair real-world relationships.
AI Disease Prediction May Catch Illnesses Before Symptoms Even Start
Researchers make the case that medicine needs to stop treating the body like a still photograph and start treating it like a time-lapse video, tracking how biological systems shift over time to catch the earliest signs of trouble.
The post AI Disease Prediction May Catch Illnesses Before Symptoms Even Start appeared first on StudyFinds.
