Artificial Intelligence

Hangzhou is the latest city in China to take traffic control to a new level, rolling out its AI-powered robot police officer to direct vehicles and pedestrians at major intersections and issue polite warnings to law-breakers.

Some of us are natural-born chefs, while others have the knack of being able to burn boiling water. The Cube o1: Your Personal AI Chef, is designed to guide either group towards tastier culinary shores.

Individuals with limited hearing struggle in situations where multiple people around them are speaking at once. New headphone tech could help, by boosting the voice of the person they're talking to based on the rhythm of the conversation.

The Index 01 ring – from the makers of the Pebble smartwatch – captures your ideas as you speak into it. It's meant to act as external memory for your brain, while lasting for years on a single-use battery that doesn't need recharging.

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has shown how combat drones can think on the fly with a demonstration of its AI-Driven Mission Contingency Management (AI/MCM) system that can adjust missions in the face of unforeseen events.

A startup founded by MIT alumni wants robots to do some heavy lifting, literally. Pickle Robot Company's systems feature AI smarts and single-armed machines to quickly unload shipping containers filled with cases weighing up to 50 lb each.

Most fully autonomous cars are being deployed in commercial settings, such as those used by driverless-ride providers like Waymo. However, a new company called Tensor plans to bring an L4 robocar to consumers next year, and it looks damn impressive.

Japanese company Science is commercially producing its Mirai Ningen Sentakuki – Human Washing Machine of the Future – after an overwhelming response at the Osaka-Kansai Expo this year. Only 50 models will be made, with a price tag of US$385,000.

The Stickerbox turns your child's wildest ideas – like a lizard riding a skateboard – into printed stickers they can tear off immediately and color in using regular pencils and crayons. It's basically generative AI and a printer, and it's genius.

Imagine having your own fitness coach available at any moment, who won't charge you $100 an hour. BodyPark, a Hong Kong-based company that develops AI-powered fitness technology, has unveiled its minimalistic AI-fitness device, Atom, on Kickstarter.

When the Iron humanoid was unveiled to the public, strutting fluidly down the runway before a gobsmacked crowd, it made headlines – but not for the reasons its creators hoped. The robot moved so humanlike that people were sure there was someone inside it.

This week, talk of the AI bubble bursting has intensified with Google top executive Demis Hassabis throwing some fuel on the fire while discussing the release of the tech company's Gemini 3 model. He also thinks some players will weather the storm.