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Anduril’s first Ohio-made unmanned, semi-autonomous aircraft rolled off the production line Monday, just four months after its beginning. submitted by /u/petburiraja [comments]

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The team behind NASA’s six-wheeled Mars explorer tested a vision-enabled artificial intelligence system to map a safe route across the Martian surface without relying on human route planners. NASA’s Perseverance rover has now completed the first drives on another planet that were planned by artificial intelligence. The milestone demonstration took place on Dec. 8 and…

Arm drift after long reinforcement training caused by action prefix drift. Source: Humanoid Robotic manipulation is making progress with artificial intelligence. London-based Humanoid last week introduced KinetIQ Ascend, its reinforcement learning, or RL, approach designed to reach 99.9% manipulation reliability at human speed and beyond. “The humanoid race is becoming a question of scale, and…

Allen Control Systems’ Bullfrog uses AI models to target drones or other threats. | Source: Allen Control Systems Allen Control Systems has raised $200 million in Series B funding. This puts the company’s valuation at $2.2 billion, Allen Control Systems (ACS) claimed. ACS will use the funding to scale manufacturing and accelerate deployment of its…

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