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Robots will start frosting and filling doughnuts ‘within the next 18 months’

Robots will start frosting and filling doughnuts ‘within the next 18 months’

Krispy Kreme (DNUT) is aiming to cut time in its doughnut production line through automation. “Probably within the next 18 months, you’ll see some automation starting to go into the frosting, the filling, the sprinkles, and even the packaging,” Krispy Kreme CEO Mike Tattersfield told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). The Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based company announced the investment as part of its Investor Day, along with its long-term outlook of generating $2.15 billion in revenue by… Source link

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Google’s Code-as-Policies Lets Robots Write Their Own Code

Google’s Code-as-Policies Lets Robots Write Their Own Code

Researchers from Google’s Robotics team have open-sourced Code-as-Policies (CaP), a robot control method that uses a large language model (LLM) to generate robot-control code that achieves a user-specified goal. CaP uses a hierarchical prompting technique for code generation that outperforms previous methods on the HumanEval code-generation benchmark. The technique and experiments were described in a paper published on arXiv. CaP differs from previous attempts to use LLMs to… Source link

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Google wants robots to generate their own code • TechCrunch

Google wants robots to generate their own code • TechCrunch

There are countless big problems left to solve in the world of automation, and robotic learning sits somewhere near the top. While it’s true that humans have gotten pretty good at programming systems for specific tasks, there’s a big, open-ended question of: and then what? New research demonstrated at Google’s AI event in New York City this morning proposes the notion of letting robotic systems effectively write their own code. The concept is designed to save human developers the… Source link

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Grubhub rolls out delivery robots at colleges nationwide

Grubhub rolls out delivery robots at colleges nationwide

Students at college campuses across the U.S. will be able to get digital food orders delivered via robot. Online and mobile food-ordering and delivery platform Grubhub is partnering with autonomous delivery robot provider Starship Technologies to enable robotic deliveries at multiple colleges. Currently, Grubhub delivery is available via Starship robot at the University of Kentucky, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Wayne State University, Southern Methodist… Source link

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Google makes robots smarter by teaching them about their limitations – TechCrunch

Google makes robots smarter by teaching them about their limitations – TechCrunch

If you’ve used a smart voice assistant such as Alexa, Siri and whatever-Google’s-smart-assistant-is-called, you’ll probably have noticed that the tech is getting smarter every day. Google can wait on hold for you, Siri can speak in a gender-neutral voice and Alexa can read you bedtime stories in your dead grandmother’s voice. Robotics is evolving in leaps and bounds as well, as we explored in our Robotics event last month. The gap between the two — voice commands and… Source link

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At Google, robots go to school and learn using AI algorithms

At Google, robots go to school and learn using AI algorithms

Placeholder while article actions load MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Researchers here at Google’s lab recently asked a robot to build a burger out of various plastic toy ingredients. The mechanical arm knew enough to add ketchup after the meat and before the lettuce, but thought the right way to do so was to put the entire bottle inside the burger. While that robot won’t be working as a line cook any time soon, it is representative of a bigger breakthrough announced by Google engineers on… Source link

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Google adds AI language skills to its helper robots to better understand humans

Google adds AI language skills to its helper robots to better understand humans

Google’s parent company Alphabet is bringing together two of its most ambitious research projects — robotics and AI language understanding — in an attempt to make a “helper robot” that can understand natural language commands. Since 2019, Alphabet been developing robots that can carry out simple tasks like fetching drinks and cleaning surfaces. This Everyday Robots project is still in its infancy — the robots are slow and hesitant — but the bots have now been given an… Source link

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