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From burritos to biotech: How robotics startup Cartken found its AV niche
Cartken and its diminutive sidewalk delivery robots first rolled into the world with a narrow charter: carrying everything from burritos and bento boxes to pizza and pad thai that last mile to hungry customers. But the vision — thanks to the startup’s approach to autonomous vehicle technology — was always broader, according to Cartken co-founder […]
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The Download: listening robots, and Google’s AI emissions
A way to let robots learn by listening will make them more useful
Yieldstreet says some of its customers were affected by the Evolve Bank data breach
Evolve, a popular financial institution for fintech startups, announced that a cyberattack affected “the data and personal information of some Evolve retail bank customers and financial technology partners’ customers.”
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The Download: mind-controlled prosthetics, and the price of AI training data
AI companies are finally being forced to cough up for training data
The Download: fish-safe hydropower, and fixing space debris
How fish-safe hydropower technology could keep more renewables on the grid
Robot cats, dogs and birds are being deployed amid an ‘epidemic of loneliness’
In the early 1990s, a researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology began work on what would become Paro. More than 30 years after its development, the doe-eyed seal pup remains the best-known example of a therapeutic robot for older adults. In 2011, the robot reached the zenith of pop cultural […]
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