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I tested the best robot mops from iRobot, Roborock, Dreame, and more, so you can finally ditch the mop and bucket. Read more

The European Union risks becoming an artificial intelligence backwater thanks to a “fragmented and unpredictable” regulatory environment that is damaging the technology’s development. That’s according to a blunt open letter and newspaper advertisement signed by 49 executives, researchers and industry organizations, notably including the CEOs of SAP, Spotify, and Ericsson. But it is the appearance… Read more

The Dreame X40 Ultra is a high-end robot vacuum that’s priced for the stars. But is it worth its hefty price tag? At $300 off, that’s a definite yes. Read more

Angie Nwandu dishes on Diddy, Donald Trump, the responsibility of the Black press, and what it takes to build a lasting media empire. Read more

The University of Washington and the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) have recently made a significant contribution to the AI research community by releasing their cutting-edge language models: MagpieLM-4B-Chat-v0.1 and MagpieLM-8B-Chat-v0.1. Part of the larger MagpieLM project, these models are specifically designed to address the rising need for aligned language models that can perform advanced… Read more

Your information and how you interact with LinkedIn is helping to train AI. If you don’t want that to happen, you can opt out and check what it already knows. Read more

AI image generators use text prompts to produce images in seconds. I tested the best text-to-image AI model and found that DALL-E isn’t your only (or best) option. Read more

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 send us your events for inclusion. ICRA@40: 23–26 September 2024, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAE ICSR… Read more

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that the OpenSearch project has officially transitioned to the OpenSearch Software Foundation, a neutral, community-driven initiative under the Linux Foundation.  OpenSearch is an Apache 2.0-licensed, open-source fork of the popular Elasticsearch search and analytics engine. After this transition, OpenSearch became part of the Linux Foundation family of open-source projects.  This… Read more

You’ve decided to upgrade to Apple’s new iPhone. Now the question is which model to buy. We break it down. Read more