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Figure AI’s former head of product safety sued the company, alleging he was fired after raising concerns its robots could fracture a human skull. Meanwhile Agility Robotics’ Digit clocked 65,000 operating hours and AI2 Robotics raised $735 million at a nearly $3 billion valuation. Here’s what these developments reveal about humanoid robotics safety right now.
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Hyundai workers staged the first-ever humanoid robot induced strike, protesting a plan to deploy over 25,000 Boston Dynamics Atlas robots across Hyundai and Kia plants. Meanwhile China restricted AI companion chatbots from forming emotional bonds with minors. Here’s what both developments reveal about growing societal pushback against AI and robotics deployment.
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MIT developed FloatForm, a swarm of small robots that snap together like fire ants to build reconfigurable structures on water, while a new Nature study uses machine learning and claims data to uncover maternal medication and neonatal outcome associations. Here’s what this week’s machine learning research reveals.
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