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China’s Low-Priced Z.ai Model Is Exposing Costly Coder Habits
Zain Hasan , an AI engineer at Together AI , has taught himself to use
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This Graduate Student Equips NASA’s Robots With Assembly Skills
Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered
Read full story →Digital Surveillance Reshapes Fishery Enforcement in Indonesia
In the eastern Indian Ocean, south of Java in the vast sea stretching toward Australia, a fishing vessel slightly alters its course while operating near the boundary of its authorized fishing ground. Nothing appears unusual on deck. Nets remain in the water. Engines maintain
Read full story →The First Chatbot’s Multiple Personalities
ELIZA is remembered as the world’s first AI star, a kindly therapist in chatbot form that gently probed users’ worries. Even its creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, was surprised by the warm reception given to his ex
Read full story →This AI Folds DNA into Mini Masterpieces
Shaped like dogs, stars, and the Mona Lisa, you could mistake these DNA structures for fun-shaped macaroni if they weren’t only nanometers wide. South Korean scientists made the constructions using a technique called
Read full story →How I Turned AI to the Dark Side
Summary Researcher Dave Kuszmar discovered multiple systemic vulnerabilities that let him bypass LLM safety and obtain dangerous instructions . These exploits worked across nearly a
Read full story →Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots
This article is brought to you by X Square Robot . Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe. Pretrain a large model on broad data, and general capability follows. Robotics has no such reci
Read full story →Video Friday: A World Cup for Robots
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Read full story →Large Tabular Models Excel Where LLMs Fail
The large language models (LLMs) that form the basis of generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can generate uncannily human-like text and images. But these models still struggle with a skill that, ironically, looks at face value to be right in their wheelhou
Read full story →Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World
One morning in 2019, Adebayo Alonge was in a Cape Town hotel room, preparing to demonstrate his startup’s AI answer to a serious problem in
Read full story →What Makes AI Art Worth Collecting?
In May, an anonymous artist who goes by SHL0MS on X posted that he had used AI to generate an image inspired by Claude Mone
Read full story →IEEE Honors Robotics Pioneer Toshio Fukuda
Toshio Fukuda has been blazing trails for most of his career. He is considered to be one of the most prolific scholars in r
Read full story →Japan Pioneered Humanoid Robots—Can It Now Catch China?
“In the future, the relationship between humans and robots will deepen, and the distinction between them will probably disappear.” This prediction, from one of the attendees at the recent
Read full story →Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on “Stochastic Parrots”
In March 2021, a group of four researchers—a collaboration of linguists and computer scientists—published their now legendary paper “ On the Dangers
Read full story →Poetry for Engineers: Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla
He was born into a storm, lightning split the summer sky, in a village the world had not yet heard of. The midwife called it a bad omen, his mother called it a sign. Your first life began in a storm, under open sky. One winter n
Read full story →The Lab Mistake That Might Revolutionize Computing
Today, you probably asked a question of a large language model, or accepted a connection suggestion on LinkedIn, or watched a recommended video on YouTube, or took a different route to work based on a traffic prediction from Google M
Read full story →iRobot Founder Wants to Put a Robotic Familiar Into Your Home
Two years ago, Colin Angle stepped down as CEO of iRobot , the company that he cofounded and
Read full story →Video Friday: Heavy Robotic Machinery Operates Itself
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Read full story →Thermal Cameras and AI Help Ships Steer Clear of Gray Whales
On a sunny Tuesday afternoon in May, San Francisco Bay is busy. Container ships the size of skyscrapers deliver their wares to the Port of Oakland, tankers bear fuel, and ferries carry tourists to their hikes and commuters to their jobs at AI startups. Looking down at this marine…
Read full story →South Africa Has AI Leverage. Its Draft Policy Leaves It Unused
This article is adapted by the author with permission from Tech Policy Press . Read the
Read full story →Why Aren’t We Measuring How AI Affects Humans?
As AI systems become more capable, a lot of resources and effort are being put toward measuring their abilities. Researchers look at technical evaluation metrics, subject AIs to reasoning tests, track their throughput, and much more. B
Read full story →The Classical Advances Needed to Make Quantum Computers Tick
Quantum computers promise to one day solve problems beyond the most powerful supercomputers imaginable. But it’s often underappreciated how much classical computing it takes just to operate these machines. As qubit counts rise, innovations in this supporting infr
Read full story →Nvidia’s AI Hardware Comes to Windows in RTX Spark PCs
At Computex 2026, an annual computer trade show held in Taipei, Taiwan, Nvidia made a long anticipated announcement—a version of the company’s Blackwell GB10 superchip for Windows PCs, called RTX Spark.
Read full story →AI Can Help Track the World’s Shrinking Glaciers
Tracking how fast glaciers are shrinking is crucial for measuring the pace of climate change and projecting future sea level rises. This is normally a painstaking manual job, but a new approach that enables AI to analyze sat
Read full story →Timing Trick Cuts Energy Used in LLM Training by Up to 14 Percent
OpenAI ’s fourth large language model (LLM),
Read full story →How a Google DeepMind Spin-off Hunts Hidden Drug Targets
For more than a decade, artificial intelligence has been touted as a way to dramatically accelerate drug discovery . Yet despite billions of dollars in investment, relatively few AI-designed medicines have made
Read full story →General Motors Is Cutting Its Development Cycles in Half
For decades, automakers enjoyed a luxury that had nothing to do with the softest leather or the smoothest engines. Their luxury was time, with some popular cars and trucks enduring for a decade or longer before they received a full redesign. The clock is t
Read full story →How Musicians Can Get Paid for Training AI
Musicians are accustomed to getting paid each time their creative work is used. Across vinyl/CD sales, streams, radio, cover versions, and those numerous niches like karaoke, there are agreements in place about what “use” means. Underlying this is a simple e
Read full story →Sound Waves Give Neuromorphic Chips a Brain-Simulating Edge
By mimicking how the brain operates, neuromorphic computing can use dramatically less energy than conventional electronic AI chips. However, even
Read full story →IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Virtual Training Course
Large language models have moved out of the research lab and into engineers’ daily workflow. LLMs serve as reasoning engines that can orchestrate complex tasks including identifying vulnerabilities
Read full story →Commemorating 70 Years of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the transformative, strategic technology of the early 21st century. It is significantly reshaping practically every aspect of our lives, including in ways that probably no one anticipated. Its rate of adoption and impact h
Read full story →AI Is Learning to Read the Room
Imagine sitting down at your desk and logging in for a performance review, with an AI system analyzing the conversation. You’ve been working long hours, balancing deadlines, and your manager asks how you’re doing. You say you’re fine, and maybe even smi
Read full story →AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn’t Even Imagine
Summary RFIC design is a complex “ dark art ” that limits progress in wireless technologies like 5G, autonomous vehicles, and s
Read full story →What it Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math
In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph.D. in applied
Read full story →Why Does a Bank Need a Chief Scientist?
This article is brought to you by Capital One . After five years leading natural language understanding and eventually the entire Alexa AI organization at Amazon, Prem Natarajan made a nontraditional move: He beca
Read full story →ConlangCrafter Turns AI to Imagining Languages
There are over 7,000 natural languages today, but that doesn’t stop people from occasionally making up completely new ones. These constructed languages, or
Read full story →Video Friday: Give Robots a Hand
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please
Read full story →Agentic AI for Robot Teams
This presentation highlights recent efforts at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to advance agentic AI for collaborative robotic teams. It begins by framing the core challenges of enabling autonomy, coordination, and adaptability across heterogeneous systems, then intr…
Read full story →Will Robotics Have a ChatGPT Moment?
Over the next few decades, billions of autonomous, AI-powered robots will work alongside people in factories, perform tedious tasks in warehouses, care for the elderly, assist in unsafe disaster areas , d
Read full story →The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots, It’s Smarter Interfaces
This sponsored article is brought to you by Wetour Robotics . A field technician on a wind turbine, harness clipped, both hands on a wrench, needs to send a command to the diagnostic device hanging at her
Read full story →Video Friday: Atlas Versus a Fridge
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Read full story →Video Friday: Extreme Omnidirectional Robot
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Read full story →Beyond Dexterity: Why Contact May Define the Next Era of Robotics
This article is brought to you by AGILINK . Throughout the exhibition hall at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics (ICRA), in Vienna, one demonstration seemed to attract a disproportionate
Read full story →Video Friday: Robotic Motion Discovery Reveals Unusual Behaviors
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Read full story →Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses
Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of
Read full story →Visual Language Models Train Robots to Read Human Emotions
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As robots advance in terms of
Read full story →The Secret to Marathon-Winning Humanoid Robots
On 19 April 2026, the Honor Lightning humanoid robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds , beating the human world record by 7 minutes and the best ro
Read full story →What Amazon’s Astro Taught Me About Giving Robots a Soul
In 2018, Amazon brought me in as the lead UX Sound Designer for Astro, its first consumer home robot . Astro used cameras and other sensors to map and navigate your
Read full story →Video Friday: Do Robots Even Need Legs?
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