Boston Dynamics has integrated Google DeepMind into its robotic dog Spot, giving it more autonomous reasoning for industrial inspections like spotting spills and reading gauges. Spot can also now recognize when to call on other AI tools. IEEE Spectrum reports: Boston Dynamics is one of the few companies to commercially deploy legged robots at any appreciable scale; there are now several thousand hard at work. Today the company is announcing that its quadruped robot Spot is now equipped with Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a high-level embodied reasoning model that brings usability and intelligence to complex tasks. [T]he focus of this partnership is on one of the very few applications where legged robots have proven themselves to be commercially viable: inspection. That is, wandering around industrial facilities, checking to make sure that nothing is imminently exploding. With the new AI onboard, Spot is now able to autonomously look for dangerous debris or spills, read complex gauges and sight glasses, and call on tools like vision-language-action models when it needs help understanding what's going on in the environment around it. "Advances like Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 mark an important step toward robots that can better understand and operate in the physical world," Marco da Silva, vice president and general manager of Spot at Boston Dynamics, says in a press release. "Capabilities like instrument reading and more reliable task reasoning will enable Spot to see, understand, and react to real-world challenges completely autonomously." You can watch a demo of Spot's new capabilities on YouTube.

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La bixonimanie n’existe pas, mais des articles de blogs et des prépublications sur cette maladie inventée par une chercheuse en médecine ont suffi à tromper plusieurs intelligences artificielles conversationnelles et à s’introduire dans un article scientifique officiel, soulevant d'inquiétantes questions sur la vérification des données à l’ère de la démocratisation de l’IA.

[Deal du jour] Que faisiez-vous en 2024 ? Eh bien, pendant ce temps, Team Asobi, le studio de développement japonais, sortait ce qui est aujourd'hui considéré comme le « Mario de la PS5 ». Sacré GOTY 2024, le jeu se trouve rarement en promotion, sauf aujourd'hui sur Amazon.

Le 2 avril 2026, Anthropic a affirmé avoir identifié, au cœur de son modèle Claude, des « représentations internes » proches d’émotions. Une découverte qui éclaire pourquoi les IA semblent parfois empathiques… et comment ces états influencent réellement leurs décisions.

Sorti quelques mois plus tôt outre-Atlantique, le mini frigo à l’effigie d’Astro Bot est arrivé en France le 14 mars 2026. Mais difficile de mettre la main dessus : après une rupture temporaire, l’accessoire est de nouveau en stock sur Micromania.

Coup dur pour Anthropic. L'entreprise derrière le très performant modèle Claude a accidentellement rendu public le code source de son outil pour développeurs, Claude Code. Des internautes ont fouillé dans les dossiers et ont découvert plusieurs projets de l'entreprise. Y compris un curieux concept de Tamagotchi.

Coup dur pour Anthropic. L'entreprise derrière le très performant modèle Claude a accidentellement rendu public le code source de son outil pour développeurs, Claude Code. Des internautes ont fouillé dans les dossiers et ont découvert plusieurs projets de l'entreprise. Y compris un curieux concept de Tamagotchi.

Utility-scale solar construction... by robots! It's "one of the largest real-world demonstrations," notes Electrek, with 100 MW of capacity installed by the "Maximo" robots from AES, one of the world's top power companies. Maximo uses AI "to automate the heavy lifting of solar panels and accelerate solar installation," according to their web page, which shows a video of Maximo at work installing a vast field of solar panels in Kern County, California. With assistance from Nvidia, the Maximo team could "develop, test and refine robotic capabilities through physics-based simulation and AI driven modeling before deploying updates in the field," reports Electrek, and they're aiming for a full GW of solar generating capacity: After completing the first half of the Bellefield complex last summer, Maximo engineers went into a higher gear, with the latest version 3.0 robots consistently surpassing an installation rate of one module per minute, with construction crews installing as many as 24 solar panel modules per hour, per person. If that sounds fast, that's because it is. At full tilt, the latest Maximo robot-equipped crews have nearly doubled the output of traditional installation methods at similar solar locations throughout Southern California. "Reaching 100 MW is an important milestone for Maximo and for the role robotics can play in solar construction," explains Chris Shelton, president of Maximo. "It demonstrates that field robotics can move beyond experimentation and deliver consistent results at utility scale. As solar deployment continues to accelerate globally, technologies that improve installation speed, quality and reliability will become increasingly important...." Like just about every other business that demands a high degree of physical labor, the construction industry is facing huge labor shortages, making machines like Maximo that provide real efficiency gains welcome additions to the job site. "The combination of AI, vision, robotics and simulation driven engineering reduced development and validation timelines," the Maximo team said in a statement, "and increased confidence in field performance as the robotic fleet scaled."

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Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: In Melania and the Robot, the New York Times reports on First Lady Melania Trump's inaugural Fostering the Future Together Coalition Summit, which brought together international leaders, First Spouses from around the world, tech leaders, educators, and nonprofits to collaborate on practical solutions that expand access to educational tools while strengthening protections for children in digital environments (Day 2 WH summary). The Times begins: "On Wednesday, Mrs. Trump appeared at the White House alongside Figure 3, a humanoid, A.I.-powered robot whose uses, according to the company that makes it, include fetching towels, carrying groceries and serving champagne. But Mrs. Trump joins tech executives and some researchers in envisioning a world beyond robot butlery. She is interested in how these robots could cut it as educators. Both clad in shades of white, the first lady and the visiting robot walked into a gathering of first spouses from around the world, a group that included Sara Netanyahu of Israel, Olena Zelenska of Ukraine, and Brigitte Macron of France. The dulcet tones from a (presumably human) military orchestra played as the first lady and her guest entered the event. Both lady and robot extolled the virtues of further integrating robots into the educational and social lives of children. In the history of modern first-lady initiatives, which have included building a national book festival (Laura Bush), reshuffling the food pyramid (Michelle Obama) and advocating for free community college (Jill Biden), Mrs. Trump's involvement of a humanoid robot in education policy was a first." "Figure 3 delivered brief remarks and delivered salutations in several languages. With its sleek black-and-white appearance, Figure 3 would fit right in with the first lady's branding aesthetic, which includes a self-titled coffee table book and movie, not least because the name "MELANIA" was emblazoned on the side of its glossy plastic head. After Figure 3 teetered gingerly away, Mrs. Trump looked around the room and told them that the future looked a lot like what they had just witnessed. 'The future of A.I. is personified,' she told her audience. 'It will be formed in the shape of humans. Very soon artificial intelligence will move from our mobile phones to humanoids that deliver utility.' She invited her guests to envision a future in which a robot philosopher educated children."

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CNBC reports: Amazon has acquired Rivr, a Swiss robotics company developing machines for "doorstep delivery," the company confirmed Thursday... It announced the deal in a notice sent to third-party delivery contractors... "We believe this technology, when working alongside your [delivery associates], has the potential to further improve safety outcomes and the overall customer experience, particularly in the last steps of the delivery process...." In its notice to delivery service partner owners, Amazon said Rivr's technology, which includes a four-legged robot on wheels, will allow it to research and test how the devices can be integrated into delivery operations, including "helping [delivery associates] carry packages from delivery vehicles to customer doorsteps."

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Des incidents récents survenus chez un développeur indépendant et, plus largement, au sein de grandes entreprises comme Amazon, relancent les questions sur l’usage de l’IA dans le développement logiciel.

Dix ans après avoir sécurisé WhatsApp, le créateur du protocole Signal, Moxie Marlinspike, récidive. Son nouveau projet, Confer, va s'intégrer à Meta AI pour garantir que vos échanges avec l'intelligence artificielle restent strictement privés, même pour Mark Zuckerberg.

Alors que j'ai sollicité Gemini pour une simple relecture d'un de mes articles sur OpenAI, l'IA de Google a franchi la ligne rouge : elle a proposé d'inventer, de toutes pièces, une interview fictive.

Alors que le « mode adulte » de ChatGPT est de nouveau repoussé, le Wall Street Journal a révélé, ce dimanche 15 mars 2026, de nouveaux détails sur le fonctionnement de l’outil. Entre promesses de contenus érotiques textuels et failles inquiétantes du système de vérification d'âge, la firme de Sam Altman navigue en pleine zone grise.

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick launched a new venture that "will focus on creating 'gainfully employed robots' for the food, mining and transport industries," Bloomberg reports. "I left Uber in 2017 heartbroken," writes Kalanick on the new company's web site. Kalanick resigned under pressure in 2017, and complains he was "torn away from an idea and a movement that I had poured my life into... I bled, but I did not perish. I got back up and fought my way back into the arena, back to my calling. Back to building. Digitizing the Physical World is my life's work... " Kalanick is remaking his real estate company, City Storage Systems, which owns ghost-kitchen operator CloudKitchens, and renaming it Atoms, according to a manifesto posted on the new company's website. [Bloomberg notes that the company's food robotics division "makes a food assembly machine called Bowl Builder, according to its website."] In addition to its work on food, Los Angeles-based Atoms is expanding into robotics technology for mining and automotive transport. Kalanick said on the livestreamed tech talk show TBPN Friday that Atoms has effectively been in stealth for eight years and has "thousands" of employees.... Kalanick wrote on the Atoms website that the company will make "specialized robots with productive jobs that bring abundance to their owners and society at large." That will include "infrastructure for better food," he wrote, as well as "more productive mines to power Earth's industries" in addition to "wheelbase for robots" in transportation. "The industrial thing is probably our main jam," he said on TBPN. "Once you crack movement in the physical world, there are lots of people who want access to that..." Kalanick also said he was the biggest investor in Pronto, a self-driving trucking startup that currently focuses on closed sites like mines.

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Défi idiot, crise de la presque quarantaine, pression populaire et professionnelle (on le dit peu, mais Humanoid est une boîte de sportives et de sportifs) : quelle que soit ma raison profonde, j'ai eu envie de courir un semi-marathon. Et pour m'aider dans cette tâche, moi qui n'ai pas couru depuis 15 ans, j'ai testé une app bien connue : Runna. Verdict : quelques jours après avoir passé la ligne d'arrivée du semi-marathon de Paris.

Être payé 800 dollars pour pousser des chatbots à bout ? C’est l’étonnante offre d’emploi lancée par la startup Memvid, qui cherche une personne capable de tester les trous de mémoire et les limites frustrantes de l’intelligence artificielle.

Le framework d'IA agentique OpenClaw est dans le viseur des autorités chinoises. Le 10 mars 2026, le CERT national a publié une liste de recommandations pour encadrer son usage, tandis que des banques publiques et administrations auraient reçu des instructions directes pour en interdire l'installation.

Le 10 mars 2026, Cloudflare a annoncé le lancement d'un outil capable d'aspirer l'intégralité d'un site web en une seule commande. Une annonce qui surprend de la part d'une entreprise dont le cœur de métier a longtemps consisté à protéger les sites précisément contre ce type d'opération.

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Vendu 399 €, le Roomba Mini est un aspirateur robot qui se destine aux petits espaces, vers une cible citadine qui cherche avant tout l'efficacité plutôt que la course à la technologie.

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