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Robotics

AI listens to insect body signals to guide cyborg cockroaches

Cyborg insects have long been studied as bio-hybrid systems that combine living organisms with small electronic devices. These systems may one day support tasks such as disaster search and rescue, environmental monitoring, ...

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Business

IBM says to boost open-source security with $5 bn project

American tech giant IBM and its IT services subsidiary Red Hat said Thursday that they would deploy billions of dollars and thousands of staff to secure open source software against new cybersecurity threats.

Electronics & Semiconductors

'Immense' leverage: Why AI chip workers are demanding more

Runaway profits and sky-high valuations for microchip companies have fueled worker demands over pay packages in South Korea, raising the question: who profits from the artificial intelligence boom?

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Machine learning & AI

AI chiefs walk back job apocalypse warnings

The most prominent figures in artificial intelligence are stepping back from dire predictions about mass unemployment, as the industry faces growing public hostility over AI's promised transformation of the workplace.

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Machine learning & AI

The race to regulate AI systems has lawyers getting creative

Can an artificial intelligence tool, such as a chatbot, be held responsible if people committed crimes based on information they got from the tool? Should chatbots, which are programmed to closely mimic human thought patterns ...

Robotics

Pea-size liquid-metal pump runs robot butterfly on under 0.1 V

Engineers have invented an ingenious liquid-metal pump that could make future soft robotics and wearable devices much more portable and agile. The innovation, led by the University of Bristol and published in the journal ...