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Aerial robot with ‘elephant trunk’ developed for complex mid-air manipulation tasks
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Aerial robot with ‘elephant trunk’ developed for complex mid-air manipulation tasks

Professor Peng Lu and his research team introduced the concept of the Aerial Elephant Trunk (AET). Credit: The University of Hong Kong Professor...

Robotic hand with unprecedented tactile sensitivity achieves human-like dexterity in real-world tasks
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Robotic hand with unprecedented tactile sensitivity achieves human-like dexterity in real-world tasks

Overview of F-TAC Hand. Credit: Nature Machine Intelligence (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-025-01053-3 Researchers have unveiled a robotic hand, the F-TAC Hand, which integrates high-resolution...

Opera rethinks the role of the browser with Neon, the first AI agentic web browser that will do tasks for you
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Opera rethinks the role of the browser with Neon, the first AI agentic web browser that will do tasks for you

Opera Neon is a new fully agentic browser capable of performing tasks The new premium browser is subscription-only and coming soon You can...

GPT-4 matches human performance on analogical reasoning tasks, study shows
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GPT-4 matches human performance on analogical reasoning tasks, study shows

Results for letter-string analogies with shuffled alphabet. Credit: PNAS Nexus (2025). DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf135 Can large language models (LLMs) reason by analogy? Some outputs...

AI goes to ‘kindergarten’ in order to learn more complex tasks
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AI goes to ‘kindergarten’ in order to learn more complex tasks

Modeling the animal’s learning experience. Credit: bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.12.575461 We need to learn our letters before we can learn to read and our...

Whole-body teleoperation system allows robots to perform coordinated tasks with human-like dexterity
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Whole-body teleoperation system allows robots to perform coordinated tasks with human-like dexterity

The Teleoperated Whole-Body Imitation System (TWIST) is a system that teleoperates humanoid robots with real-time whole-body human data and AI. It achieves versatile,...

Scientists program domestic robots for additional household tasks
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Scientists program domestic robots for additional household tasks

Domestic robots, such as robot vacuum cleaners, spend most of their day idle – researchers propose ways to work them harder to make...

Financial leaders still rely on regular tools like Excel for automation tasks over AI
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Financial leaders still rely on regular tools like Excel for automation tasks over AI

Report claims finance leaders prioritize Excel over AI for automation and security Cautious optimism defines finance’s approach to AI integration challenges Regulatory compliance...

Chain of Draft approach allows AI models to carry out tasks using far fewer resources
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Chain of Draft approach allows AI models to carry out tasks using far fewer resources

Comparison of Claude 3.5 Sonnet’s accuracy and token usage across different tasks with three different prompt strategies: direct answer (Standard), Chain of Thought...