Manipulation

Scientists at North Carolina State University have created a magnetic “metasheet” that can move objects and liquids around without needing robot arms or grippers.

GPT-4 is already better at changing people's minds than the average human is, according to new research. The gap widens the more it knows about us – and once it can see us in real time, AI seems likely to become an unprecedented persuasion machine.

Perhaps we spoke a tad too soon. Adobe has extended the AI-enhanced capabilities of its Photoshop image editing software to include instant sky replacement, some super-easy selection tools and some early Neural Filters, including emotion editing.

California has now officially banned the distribution of maliciously deceptive audio and video content that misrepresents political candidates.

In a rare case of corporate awareness of social responsibility, Adobe has just revealed it is working on an artificial intelligence system that can quickly detect whether an image has been artificially manipulated.​

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory are testing a dexterous bomb disposal robot that is equipped with advanced prosthetic arms and hands.

Robot vacuum cleaner company iRobot has developed a surprisingly effective and inexpensive hand for DARPA's Autonomous Robotic Manipulation (ARM) program.

HERB, a butler robot built at Carnegie Mellon University's Personal Robotics lab, separates an Oreo cookie to demonstrate its capabilities.

Boston Dynamics' quadruped robot BigDog gets an arm with which it can grab, lift, and throw heavy objects.

An MIT spin-off called Robot Rebuilt wants to build robot hands with human-like sensitivity.

Researchers at Philips have developed pixel manipulation technology that could see the whole surface of devices being painted according to the user's mood or ambient colorscapes being applied to windows, walls or rooms.

Xerox’s Color By Words technology lets users select phrases from a drop-down menu that help them adjust colors in their images simply, quickly and accurately.