Manipulation

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.

Engineers have developed a new system that can move objects without physical contact. The technique involves ultrasound waves acting on specialized surfaces to push or pull objects in set directions, which could help in manufacturing and robotics.

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.​

If you had to grasp a tiny delicate object such as a blood vessel, doing so with traditional tweezers would be a very painstaking process – just a little too much pressure, and the object could be crushed. Instead, scientists have developed miniature coiling tentacles for doing the job.

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.

Computer scientists have developed software that can make gigapixel images available for editing in seconds.