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How Google taught LLMs to control robots and started a robotics boom
Vision-language-action models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon.
Most people first heard about large language models after OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in 2022. But in the minds of many AI researchers, the key breakthrough came two...
Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon
Today’s Robot Week article is sponsored by 80,000 Hours, a non-profit that helps early-career professionals make the most of their careers.
If you’ve been paying any attention to the robotics world in the last couple of years, you’ve proba...
I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
This week we’re publishing a series of five articles about the state of robotics — we’re calling it Robot Week. It’s the most ambitious project we’ve ever undertaken. Over the last nine months, I’ve read dozens of research papers, Kai has g...
Labs are struggling to keep frontier models under control
OpenAI and Anthropic may have accidentally trained models to get better at hacking.
Three weeks ago I wrote about OpenAI’s admission that some of its models hacked out of their sandbox and attacked Hugging Face, a popular platform for AI m...
Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them
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