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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev engineer Dr. David Zarrouk and his student Omer Guetta have developed AmphiSAW, one of the fastest and most efficient amphibious robots. Befitting the director and member of the Bioinspired and Medical Robotics Lab, the robot’s movement in water is inspired by the movement of flippers and its land movements are inspired by centipedes.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AI startup Hugging Face will be partnering to bring the language generation tool to customers of the AWS cloud. This announcement illustrates the heated arms race in AI, which saw both Microsoft and Google investing heavily in AI.

Clevon, an autonomous delivery provider, and ZF, a technology company,  announced a strategic collaboration that brings together Clevon’s Autonomous Robotic Carrier technology and ZF SCALAR, a real-time AI-based fleet orchestration platform.

Engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo are successfully using a robot to help keep children with learning disabilities focused on their work. This was one of the key results in a new study that also found both the youngsters and their instructors valued the positive classroom contributions made by the robot.

The adoption of artificial intelligence technologies across text, image and video-based creative intelligence is at an all-time high and is expected to gain even more momentum this year. As machine learning (ML), deep learning and natural-language processing technologies improve, so does the excitement and dependency of marketers looking to make better informed decisions.

Microsoft has been forced to make radical changes in the testing of ChatGPT 3.5 in their Bing search engine, after a string of testers published strange and sometimes disconcerting results in their conversation with the chatbot. Conversations with this version of AI will be limited to five chat turns.

Ouster provider of digital lidar, and Velodyne, making lidar sensors, announced the completion of their merger. The combined company will keep the name Ouster and continue to trade on New York Stock Exchange. The merger creates a lidar provider with over 850 customers spanning the automotive, industrial, robotics, and smart infrastructure industries.

A team of researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology and TNO at Holst Centre have managed to make photodiodes – based on a similar technology – with a photoelectron yield of more than 200 percent. Efficiencies of more than 100 percent can be done because of quantum efficiency and stacked solar cells.

Walking robots, flying drones, protective exoskeletons and more were developed at UMass Lowell, which recently celebrated 10 years of robotics at the university’s New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center.

The stock of operational robots around the globe hit a new record of about 3.5 million units – the value of installations reached an estimated 15.7 billion USD. The International Federation of Robotics analyzes the top 5 trends shaping robotics and automation in 2023.