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      Robot Dreams review – bittersweet buddy movie is one of the best animations in recent years

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 08:00 · 1 minute

    A lonely dog buys himself a robot companion and learns to see the world in a joyous new light in Spanish director Pablo Berger’s exquisite, Oscar-nominated film

    It’s an almost entirely dialogue-free animation, captured with pleasingly simple, almost naive 2D character design. The warm and disarming storytelling is bolstered by the film’s unassuming use of humour. But come to Robot Dreams well stocked with tissues: Pablo Berger’s exquisite, bittersweet, Oscar-nominated buddy movie about the bond between a dog and a robot matches Spike Jonze’s Her as one of cinema’s most devastating and profound studies of loneliness and the fragility of emotional connections. If any further evidence were needed to support the theory that we are enjoying a new boom time for quality animation, then this is it.

    The appealingly clean, uncomplicated character design is based on that of the source material, a graphic novel by American author and illustrator Sara Varon. She has made something of a career from exploring odd-couple relationships: one of her other books, Bake Sale , is about the friendship between a cupcake and an aubergine. Another, Chicken and Cat , is playfully referenced in Robot Dreams , namechecked on the buzzer for the apartment below that of Dog.

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      La Lune pourrait avoir son propre réseau de chemin de fer

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 7 days ago - 12:34

    Train Lune

    Construire des trains sur la Lune pourrait permettre de transporter des astronautes et de grandes quantités de ressources, afin de faciliter la colonisation de notre satellite.
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      Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 20 March - 20:21 · 1 minute

    An illustration of a humanoid robot created by Nvidia.

    Enlarge / An illustration of a humanoid robot created by Nvidia. (credit: Nvidia)

    In sci-fi films, the rise of humanlike artificial intelligence often comes hand in hand with a physical platform, such as an android or robot. While the most advanced AI language models so far seem mostly like disembodied voices echoing from an anonymous data center, they might not remain that way for long. Some companies like Google , Figure , Microsoft , Tesla , Boston Dynamics , and others are working toward giving AI models a body. This is called "embodiment," and AI chipmaker Nvidia wants to accelerate the process.

    "Building foundation models for general humanoid robots is one of the most exciting problems to solve in AI today," said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in a statement. Huang spent a portion of Nvidia's annual GTC conference keynote on Monday going over Nvidia's robotics efforts. "The next generation of robotics will likely be humanoid robotics," Huang said. "We now have the necessary technology to imagine generalized human robotics."

    To that end, Nvidia announced Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots. As a type of AI model itself, Nvidia hopes GR00T (which stands for "Generalist Robot 00 Technology" but sounds a lot like a famous Marvel character) will serve as an AI mind for robots, enabling them to learn skills and solve various tasks on the fly. In a tweet , Nvidia researcher Linxi "Jim" Fan called the project "our moonshot to solve embodied AGI in the physical world."

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      Nvidia: what’s so good about the tech firm’s new AI superchip?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 19 March - 15:11


    US firm hopes to lead in artificial intelligence and other sectors – and has built a model that could control humanoid robots

    The chipmaker Nvidia has extended its lead in artificial intelligence with the unveiling of a new “superchip”, a quantum computing service, and a new suite of tools to help develop the ultimate sci-fi dream: general purpose humanoid robotics. Here we look at what the company is doing and what it might mean.

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      Workplace AI, robots and trackers are bad for quality of life, study finds

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 12 March - 22:00

    Tech such as laptops, tablets and instant messaging has more positive effect on wellbeing, says thinktank

    Exposure to new technologies including trackers, robots and AI-based software at work is bad for people’s quality of life, according to a groundbreaking study from the the Institute for Work thinktank.

    Based on a survey of more than 6,000 people, the study analysed the impact on wellbeing of four groups of technologies that are becoming increasingly prevalent across the economy.

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      Can’t read a map or add up? Don’t worry, we’ve always let technology do the boring stuff | Martha Gill

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 9 March - 19:00

    We won’t fear the rise of the robots when we realise they’re just another tool to take the tedium out of our lives

    The dystopian novels of the last century were mostly filled with terrifying visions of the rise of technology – a genre of which we are still to tire. Charlie Brooker’s hugely successful Black Mirror series in which technology kills, maims or subjects people to terrible fates will have a seventh incarnation this year.

    But just for balance, just for once, I’d like to see a dystopia in which humans of the 2020s are catapulted into a world equipped only with the technology of a few decades ago. The repetitive domestic chore. The mind-numbing assembly-line job. The tyranny of a thousand paper forms to fill out by hand, post and file.

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      Segway tond votre pelouse avec un robot équipé d’un GPS

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Saturday, 9 March - 15:00

    Navimow Segway

    Pourquoi s'embêter à tondre la pelouse quand un robot peut faire le sale boulot à votre place ? Segway a lancé sa nouvelle gamme de tondeuses robotisées Navimow i dont le principal argument de vente est un prix autour de 1.000 €.
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      Verdie, le jardinier robot autonome

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Saturday, 9 March - 10:00

    Verdie

    Verdie, le nouveau robot d'Electric Sheep Robotics, a la main verte. Il peut en effet réaliser des tâches de désherbage et de taille, il peut aussi souffler les feuilles en complément du travail des paysagistes. L'objectif annoncé est de simplifier l'entretien paysager en le rendant plus efficace et moins dépendant de la main-d'œuvre humaine.
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      Le Cyberdog 2 de Xiaomi sait faire des sauts périlleux

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Monday, 4 March - 07:30

    Cyberdog 2

    L'été dernier, Xiaomi dévoilait son nouveau chien-robot, le bien nommé Cyberdog dont c'est la deuxième génération. Le constructeur a profité du MWC pour faire la démonstration du quadrupède, qui offre une expérience moins intimidante et plus amicale que son prédécesseur.