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The operation cost for the Digit robot is reportedly estimated to be in the range of $10 to $12 per hour.


In a significant leap toward the future, humanoid robots are quietly but steadily becoming an integral part of our daily lives, taking on a myriad of tasks that were once solely the domain of living beings. From assisting with household chores to working alongside humans in professional settings, these machines are slowly reshaping how we live and work.

One of the largest logistics providers, GXO Logistics, has introduced another instance of humanoid robots in warehouse operations by deploying Agility Robotics’ Digit. The robot is undergoing a pilot testing program for logistics tasks at the SPANX facility in Flowery Branch, Georgia.

Over the past 8.5 years, its predecessor, the K5, has successfully patrolled diverse locations across the US, contributing significantly to crime reduction and ensuring safety in various environments, claims the firm.


Knightscope, a prominent developer of autonomous security robots, has officially commenced the shipment of its highly anticipated 5th Generation K5 Autonomous Security Robot (ASR), the company announced in a press release.

This represents a significant milestone for the company and marks a thorough redesign to elevate the flagship ASR’s capabilities. Production is in full swing at Knightscope’s Silicon Valley Headquarters. It is proudly made in America, with machines ready to fulfill nationwide contracts.

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For the first time ever, researchers show how a large language model can help discover novel solutions to long-standing problems in math and computer science.


The card game Set has long inspired mathematicians to create interesting problems.

Now, a technique based on large language models (LLMs) is showing that artificial intelligence (AI) can help mathematicians to generate new solutions.

The AI system, called FunSearch, made progress on Set-inspired problems in combinatorics, a field of mathematics that studies how to count the possible arrangements of sets containing finitely many objects. But its inventors say that the method, described in Nature on 14 December1, could be applied to a variety of questions in maths and computer science.

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If the deal with German publisher Axel Springer pulls through, it’s highly likely that reports citing ChatGPT’s decline in accuracy will reduce significantly. OpenAI will also get access current and archived news articles across the publisher’s brands, which it will use to train its LLMs. The chatbots will also refer back to the original source to provide absolute transparency to users. And since its a mutual partnership, Axel Springer will also leverage OpenAI’s resources to further enhance and improve its products.

What are your thoughts on OpenAI’s first attempt to compensate publishers and websites for using their content to train its AI models? Let us know in the comments.

For the first time ever, wireless millirobots navigated a narrow blood vessel both along and against arterial flow. Researchers from the University of Twente and Radboudumc inserted the screw-shaped robots in a detached aorta with kidneys where they controlled them using a robotically controlled rotating magnet. The researchers plan to further develop the technology to be able to remove blood clots.

Each year worldwide, one in four people die from conditions caused by blood clots. A blood clot blocks a blood vessel preventing the blood from delivering oxygen to certain areas of the body. Surgeons can use flexible instruments to remove the blood clot therefore allowing the blood to flow again, but some regions in the body are difficult to reach. Millirobots can overcome these limitations and remove blood clots from difficult-to-reach blood vessels.

The researchers showed that these millirobots were able to travel through blood vessels. But to do so, the millirobots need power, to travel up-and downstream and to accurately be controlled and localized. Last but not least, they need to be biocompatible and leave no further damage to the inside of blood vessels.