Le robot humanoïde de 3e génération de l'entreprise américaine Figure a pour but d'être capable d' « effectuer des tâches quasi humaines et d'apprendre directement auprès des humains ».

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The food delivery robots that arrived in Atlanta in June "are not our friends," argues a headline at CNN. The four-wheeled Serve Robotics machines "get confused at crosswalks. They move with the speed and caution of a first-time driver, stilted and shy, until they suddenly speed up without warning. Their four wheels look like they were made for off-roading, but they still get stuck in the cracks of craggy sidewalks. Most times I see the bots, they aren't moving at all... " Cyclists swerve to avoid them like any other obstacle in the road. Patrons of Shake Shack (a national partner of Serve) weave around the mess of robots parked in front of the restaurant to make their way inside and place orders on iPads... The dawn of everyday, "friendly" robots may be here, but they haven't proven themselves useful — or trustworthy — yet. "People think they are your friends, but they're actually cameras and microphones of corporations," said Joanna Bryson, a longtime AI scholar and professor of ethics and technology at the Hertie School in Berlin. "You're right to be nervous..." When robots show up in a city, it's often not because the residents of said city actively wanted them there or had a say in their arrival said Edward Ongweso Jr. [a researcher at the Security in Context initiative, a tech journalist and self-proclaimed "decelerationist" urging a slower rollout for Silicon Valley tech pioneers and civic leaders embracing untested and unregulated technology]... "They're being rolled out without any sort of input from people, and as a result, in ways that are annoying and inconvenient," Ongweso Jr. said. "I suspect that people would feel a lot differently if they had a choice ... 'what kind of robots are we interested in rolling out in our homes, in our workplaces, on our college campuses or in our communities?'" Delivery robots aren't unique to Atlanta. AI-driven companies including Avride and Coco Robotics have sent fleets of delivery robots to big cities like Chicago, Dallas and Jersey City, as well as sleepy college towns... "They're popping up everywhere," Ongweso Jr. continued, "because there's sort of a realization that you have to convince people to view them as inevitable. The way to do that is to just push it into as many places as possible, and have these spectacle demonstrations, get some friendly coverage, try to figure out the ways in which you're selling this as the only alternative.... If you humanize it, you're more willing to entertain it and rationalize it being in your area — 'That's just Jeffrey,' or whatever they name it — instead of seeing it for what it is, which is a bunch of investors privately encroaching on a community or workplace," Ongweso Jr. said. "It's not the future. It's a business model." Serve Robotics CEO Ali Kashani told CNN their goal in Atlanta was reducing traffic — and that the robots' average delivery distance there was under a mile, taking about 18 minutes per delivery. Serve Robotics has also launched their robots in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta, according to the site Robotics 247, as part of an ongoing collaboration with Uber Eats. (Although after the robots launched in Los Angeles, a man in a mobility scooter complained the slow-moving robot swerved in front of him.) And "residents of other cities have had to rescue them when they've been felled by weather," reports CNN. CNN also spoke to Dylan Losey, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech who studies human-robot interaction, who notes that the robots' AI algorithms are "completely unregulated... We don't know if a third party has checked the hardware and software and deemed the system 'safe' — in part because what it means for these systems to be 'safe' is not fully understood or standardized." (CNN's reporter adds that "the last time I got close to a bot, to peer down at a flier someone left on top of it, it revved at me loudly. Perhaps they can sense a hater.") But Serve's CEO says there's one crucial way robot delivery will be cheaper than humans. "You don't have to tip the robots."

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Le film Tron: Ares sort au cinéma le 8 octobre 2025. L'occasion pour nous de revenir sur plusieurs décennies de représentation du numérique au cinéma et dans les séries, entre kitsch nostalgique et réalisme.

Oubliez les humanoïdes : les robots à roues séduisent déjà les hôpitaux et pourraient s’imposer comme la solution la plus efficace dans bien des secteurs selon la co-fondatrice d’une start-up américaine du monde de la robotique.

En Corée du Sud, une équipe du Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) a considérablement amélioré les performances des robots autonomes grâce à l’intégration d’une « fonction d’oubli », inspirée du comportement humain. Résultat : leur productivité a grimpé de 18% et leur temps moyen de trajet a diminué de 30 %.

Meta is making humanoid robots its next massive "AR-sized bet," investing billions into a project led by top roboticists. The focus will be less on hardware and more on software dexterity, aiming to license its robotics platform to manufacturers much like Google licenses Android. The Verge reports: During a recent conversation at Meta's headquarters, CTO Andrew Bosworth said he stood up a robotics "research effort" earlier this year at the direction of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The team's existence has been reported on before, but Bosworth hadn't discussed its strategy in-depth until our interview. "I don't think the hardware is the hard part," he told me ahead of Meta's recent Connect conference. "I'm not saying the hardware isn't also hard, but it's not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is the software." To demonstrate, Bosworth picked up my glass of water from a table between us. "If you know robotics, one of the biggest problems that you have is dexterous manipulation," he said. "These robots, they can stand, they can run, they can do a flip, because the ground is a super stable thing." By contrast, a robot trying to pick up the glass of water would likely "immediately crush it or spill all the water." While Meta is currently building its own humanoid, or "Metabot" as it's called internally, Bosworth envisions the company licensing its software platform to other robot manufacturers. "I don't care about us being the hardware manufacturers," he explained.

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Google DeepMind a présenté le 26 septembre 2025 deux nouveaux modèles d'IA conçus pour piloter des robots : Gemini Robotics 1.5 et Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5. Les deux modèles peuvent fonctionner ensemble pour « raisonner » avant d'agir.

Grièvement blessé par un bras robotique de l’usine Tesla en Californie, un ancien employé réclame 51 millions de dollars de dommages et intérêts à l’entreprise dirigée par Elon Musk et Fanuc.

MLB has approved the use of robot umpires in the 2026 season. According to ESPN, the system will give teams two challenges per game for balls and strikes where hitters, pitchers, and catchers can request reviews. From the report: Hitters, pitchers and catchers will be the only ones allowed to trigger the system by tapping their head, and if a challenge is successful -- the pitch will be shown on in-stadium videoboards -- teams will retain it. While the vote in favor of the automated ball-strike challenge system was not unanimous -- some of the four players on the 11-man committee voted no, according to sources -- the vote was a fait accompli, with MLB owners all in favor and in possession of a six-seat majority on the committee. The ABS system uses similar technology to the line-calling system in tennis, with 12 cameras in each ballpark tracking the ball with a margin of error around one-sixth of an inch. The ABS zone will be a two-dimensional plane in the middle of the plate that spans its full width (17 inches). The zone's top will be 53.5% of a player's height and the bottom 27%. Teams that run out of challenges over the first nine innings will be granted an extra challenge in the 10th inning, while those that still have unused challenges will simply carry them into extras. If a team runs out of challenges in the 10th, it will automatically receive another in the 11th -- a rule that extends for any extra inning. During the league's spring training test this season, teams combined to average around four challenges per game and succeeded 52.2% of the time, according to the league. Catchers, whose value in framing pitches outside the zone to look like strikes could take a hit due to the new rule, were the most successful at a 56% overturn rate, while hitters were correct 50% of the time and pitchers 41%. MLB's minor league testing, which started in 2021, led to Triple-A players in 2023 using ABS challenge three days a week and a full ABS system, with every pitch adjudicated by computer, the other three.

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Il est impossible de purement et simplement ignorer la propagation sans cesse plus rapide des armes létales autonomes et de l’intelligence artificielle sur les théâtres de guerre ; mais il serait éminemment dangereux de confier la prise de décision à la technologie seule.

[Deal du jour] Il n'est plus obligé de mettre le prix pour posséder un aspirateur robot efficace. Parmi les modèles d’entrée de gamme, ce petit aspirateur de la marque Roborock fait le travail demandé, et pour pas cher.

Déjà teasé il y a quelques semaines sur les réseaux sociaux, le « chroniqueur IA » de Tout Beau Tout N9uf a fait une brève apparition au début de la première émission, sous la forme d'un homme déguisé en Daft Punk. Cyril Hanouna indique qu'il sera dévoilé le mardi 2 septembre.

Dans un article publié fin août, la hackeuse éthique BobdaHacker décrit sa dernière opération de piratage. Elle vise une nouvelle fois le secteur de la restauration, moins de deux semaines après avoir révélé les failles de sécurité chez McDonald's.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their hiding spots. It's the latest effort by the South Florida Water Management District to eliminate as many pythons as possible from the Everglades, where they are decimating native species with their voracious appetites. In Everglades National Park, officials say the snakes have eliminated 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds. "Removing them is fairly simple. It's detection. We're having a really hard time finding them," said Mike Kirkland, lead invasive animal biologist for the water district. "They're so well camouflaged in the field." The water district and University of Florida researchers deployed 120 robot rabbits this summer as an experiment. Previously, there was an effort to use live rabbits as snake lures but that became too expensive and time-consuming, Kirkland said. The robots are simple toy rabbits, but retrofitted to emit heat, a smell and to make natural movements to appear like any other regular rabbit. "They look like a real rabbit," Kirkland said. They are solar powered and can be switched on and off remotely. They are placed in small pens monitored by a video camera that sends out a signal when a python is nearby. "Then I can deploy one of our many contractors to go out and remove the python," Kirkland said. The total cost per robot rabbit is about $4,000, financed by the water district, he added.

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Avec son système de navigation intelligent, sa capacité à franchir des pentes jusqu’à 70 % et ses lames de coupe brevetées, le Sunseeker Elite X7 se distingue comme une alternative crédible à la tondeuse traditionnelle. Pensé par le Sunseeker Elite Lab, il promet une tonte sans effort, quelles que soient les contraintes de votre jardin.

Nvidia has launched its Jetson AGX Thor robotics chip module, a $3,499 "robot brain" developer kit that starts shipping next month. CNBC reports: After a company uses the developer kit to prototype their robot, Nvidia will sell Thor T5000 modules that can be installed in production-ready robots. If a company needs more than 1,000 Thor chips, Nvidia will charge $2,999 per module. CEO Jensen Huang has said robotics is the company's largest growth opportunity outside of artificial intelligence, which has led to Nvidia's overall sales more than tripling in the past two years. "We do not build robots, we do not build cars, but we enable the whole industry with our infrastructure computers and the associated software," said Deepu Talla, Nvidia's vice president of robotics and edge AI, on a call with reporters Friday. The Jetson Thor chips are based on a Blackwell graphics processor, which is Nvidia's current generation of technology used in its AI chips, as well as its chips for computer games. Nvidia said that its Jetson Thor chips are 7.5 times faster than its previous generation. That allows them to run generative AI models, including large language models and visual models that can interpret the world around them, which is essential for humanoid robots, Nvidia said. The Jetson Thor chips are equipped with 128GB of memory, which is essential for big AI models. [...] The company said its Jetson Thor chips can be used for self-driving cars as well, especially from Chinese brands. Nvidia calls its car chips Drive AGX, and while they are similar to its robotics chips, they run an operating system called Drive OS that's been tuned for automotive purposes.

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C'est la fin de l'expédition sous-marine qui a exploré les profondeurs de l'océan Pacifique en Argentine. Qu'ont découvert les scientifiques ? Près de 40 nouvelles espèces et une biodiversité extrêmement riche. Les 200 heures d'images d'une qualité exceptionnelle occuperont les scientifiques pendant longtemps.

[Deal du jour] Les aspirateurs robots gagnent en efficacité, même parmi les modèles d’entrée de gamme. Ce petit Roborock offre justement un excellent rapport qualité-prix en promotion.

Pour étudier le comportement des populations de crabes, des scientifiques ont mis au point un « robot-espion ». Mais tout ne s'est pas passé comme prévu.