By Loz Blain May 17, 2023 Sanctuary AI has debuted Phoenix, it’s general-purpose work robot in development Sanctuary AI Canada’s Sanctuary AI has revealed a new humanoid robot, shooting for the “world’s first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots (GPR).” Phoenix builds on some very impressive earlier work and a neat “piloted” approach to training....
What do you get if you combine the best features of a smartphone, a vacuum cleaner, and a pet? No, it’s not Dr. Frankenstein’s dog, but rather the new family members of the household of the future: social companion robots. They might do the chores, guard the house, teach the children and keep company to...
Automated robots now have the tools to grow imitation, simplified human organs out of stem cells. Thankfully, we weren’t transported to a sci-fi dystopia where the machines have risen up and started to farm humans, but rather a world where pharmaceutical and other biomedical researchjust became much easier and faster. Give these robots some pluripotent stem...
