Arif | AI & Ideas
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💬 Making sense of AI, one post at a time.
📚 Passionate about tech, language and science communication.
🌍 Based in the UK | Forever curious.
📚 Passionate about tech, language and science communication.
🌍 Based in the UK | Forever curious.
🇬🇧 Engineered Arts just unveiled Ameca Gen 3 at ICRA 2025—this humanoid now walks and interacts smoother than ever before. When your robot can act more human than human, what’s next? 🤖
Ameca (robot) - Wikipedia
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August 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
🇬🇧 Engineered Arts just unveiled Ameca Gen 3 at ICRA 2025—this humanoid now walks and interacts smoother than ever before. When your robot can act more human than human, what’s next? 🤖
🌿 Robot Mowers at Women’s Open
⛳ For the first time at a UK Major event, 15 robotic mowers will maintain the course at the AIG Women’s Open. They’ll work overnight so greenkeepers can focus day-time on greens. Sustainable tech meets sports turf. Ready for autonomous caddies? 🤖
⛳ For the first time at a UK Major event, 15 robotic mowers will maintain the course at the AIG Women’s Open. They’ll work overnight so greenkeepers can focus day-time on greens. Sustainable tech meets sports turf. Ready for autonomous caddies? 🤖
Why Robots Are Making History At The AIG Women’s Open
For the first time ever, robots will be used in the maintenance of the golf course during a UK Major week, with 15 robotic mowers being introduced at Royal Porthcawl
www.golfmonthly.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🌿 Robot Mowers at Women’s Open
⛳ For the first time at a UK Major event, 15 robotic mowers will maintain the course at the AIG Women’s Open. They’ll work overnight so greenkeepers can focus day-time on greens. Sustainable tech meets sports turf. Ready for autonomous caddies? 🤖
⛳ For the first time at a UK Major event, 15 robotic mowers will maintain the course at the AIG Women’s Open. They’ll work overnight so greenkeepers can focus day-time on greens. Sustainable tech meets sports turf. Ready for autonomous caddies? 🤖
🚀 UK Medical Delivery Robots
🤖 London’s NHS is now pairing ground delivery robots with drone networks to move medical supplies - no more waiting rooms or corridor traffic jams. The clinical metre just got robot-powered. Ready for triage by bot?
#Robotics #HealthTech #SmartCities
🤖 London’s NHS is now pairing ground delivery robots with drone networks to move medical supplies - no more waiting rooms or corridor traffic jams. The clinical metre just got robot-powered. Ready for triage by bot?
#Robotics #HealthTech #SmartCities
Ground robots to join London's NHS drone network
Autonomous ground delivery robots are planned to join the drone delivery network in London to deliver NHS supplies.
www.digitalhealth.net
July 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🚀 UK Medical Delivery Robots
🤖 London’s NHS is now pairing ground delivery robots with drone networks to move medical supplies - no more waiting rooms or corridor traffic jams. The clinical metre just got robot-powered. Ready for triage by bot?
#Robotics #HealthTech #SmartCities
🤖 London’s NHS is now pairing ground delivery robots with drone networks to move medical supplies - no more waiting rooms or corridor traffic jams. The clinical metre just got robot-powered. Ready for triage by bot?
#Robotics #HealthTech #SmartCities
🤖 Meet Walker S2—the world’s first humanoid robot that changes its own battery, running 24/7 without humans. It walks, detects its power, and swaps packs solo. Autonomous literal self-care? Welcome to future robotics.
China launches world's first robot that can run by itself 24/7 — watch it change its own batteries in unsettling new footage
The Walker S2 humanoid robot, which can change its own battery when it's running low on power, could potentially be left to run on its own forever.
www.livescience.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
🤖 Meet Walker S2—the world’s first humanoid robot that changes its own battery, running 24/7 without humans. It walks, detects its power, and swaps packs solo. Autonomous literal self-care? Welcome to future robotics.
Meet Reachy Mini—a pint-sized desktop robot from Hugging Face that you can buy now! With expressive gestures and open-source brain, it's the companion bot for tinkerers and educators. Who’s ready to welcome a mini teammate? 🤖
Reachy Mini - The Open-Source Robot for Today's and Tomorrow's AI Builders
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
July 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Meet Reachy Mini—a pint-sized desktop robot from Hugging Face that you can buy now! With expressive gestures and open-source brain, it's the companion bot for tinkerers and educators. Who’s ready to welcome a mini teammate? 🤖
🤖 Intel's RealSense tech just went independent with a $50M spinout—building AI vision systems that help robots "see" 3D environments. From warehouse bots to helpful home aides, this could be a game-changer. Will it power the next wave of robot vision?
#Robotics #AI #ComputerVision
#Robotics #AI #ComputerVision
RealSense spins out from Intel, secures $50 million to drive AI vision in robotics
Computer vision technology firm RealSense said on Friday it has completed its spinout from Intel Corp and secured $50 million in early-stage funding to accelerate expansion into the rapidly growing robotics sector.
www.reuters.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:54 AM
🤖 Intel's RealSense tech just went independent with a $50M spinout—building AI vision systems that help robots "see" 3D environments. From warehouse bots to helpful home aides, this could be a game-changer. Will it power the next wave of robot vision?
#Robotics #AI #ComputerVision
#Robotics #AI #ComputerVision
🤝 OpenAI just signed a strategic deal with the UK government—deploying AI across justice, education, security, and more. With civil servants already using ChatGPT-powered tools, the public-sector AI shift is underway. Game changer or too big a leap?
#AI #GovTech #UKtech
#AI #GovTech #UKtech
UK and ChatGPT maker OpenAI sign new strategic partnership
Britain and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have signed a new strategic partnership to deepen collaboration on AI security research and explore investing in British AI infrastructure, such as data centres, the government said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
🛡️ BSI is cracking down on the AI audit ‘wild west’ with a new standard launching July 31—ensuring checks on fairness, safety, and independence. Finally, someone’s holding AI builders accountable. Is this what industry needs? #AI #TrustworthyAI #Standards
New UK AI audit standard aims to crack down on ‘wild west’ operators
Boutique companies have sprung up to take advantage of the demand
www.ft.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
🛡️ BSI is cracking down on the AI audit ‘wild west’ with a new standard launching July 31—ensuring checks on fairness, safety, and independence. Finally, someone’s holding AI builders accountable. Is this what industry needs? #AI #TrustworthyAI #Standards
🇬🇧 UK just announced a £1 billion AI infrastructure boost—20× more public supercomputing, linking Isambard-AI and Dawn into a national research grid. Think faster cancer scans today and future breakthroughs tomorrow. Bold move or too little too late?
Britain boosts computing power in $1.3 billion AI drive
Britain set out its plan to invest 1 billion pounds ($1.34 billion) in computing infrastructure to drive the development of artificial intelligence, which will increase its public compute capacity 20 fold over the next five years.
www.reuters.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🇬🇧 UK just announced a £1 billion AI infrastructure boost—20× more public supercomputing, linking Isambard-AI and Dawn into a national research grid. Think faster cancer scans today and future breakthroughs tomorrow. Bold move or too little too late?
🧩 China’s Unitree Robotics has officially kicked off its IPO journey—just as its G1 humanoid bots enter real-world factory trials. With ~90 gov contracts and US$5.4M revenue, humanoid robots could be a public bet soon. Would you invest? 🤖
China's Unitree Robotics starts IPO process
Chinese startup Unitree Robotics has begun the so-called "tutoring" process for a potential initial public offering, a filing with the securities regulator showed on Friday.
www.reuters.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🧩 China’s Unitree Robotics has officially kicked off its IPO journey—just as its G1 humanoid bots enter real-world factory trials. With ~90 gov contracts and US$5.4M revenue, humanoid robots could be a public bet soon. Would you invest? 🤖
🇬🇧 Meet Isambard‑AI: the UK’s £225 m supercomputer—5,400 Nvidia chips, 100,000× faster than your laptop, spotting sick cows, diagnosing skin cancer, and training wearable tech to predict accidents. Public compute just got real. Meaningful or risky? 🤖💥
UK’s £225m AI supercomputer, Isambard-AI, launches in Bristol
Hopes £225m Isambard-AI in Bristol will unleash new era of technological, medical and social breakthroughs
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
🇬🇧 Meet Isambard‑AI: the UK’s £225 m supercomputer—5,400 Nvidia chips, 100,000× faster than your laptop, spotting sick cows, diagnosing skin cancer, and training wearable tech to predict accidents. Public compute just got real. Meaningful or risky? 🤖💥
MIT CSAIL used generative AI to rethink robot design. The result? A robot that jumps 41% higher and lands 84% smoother—3D-printed and tested. AI in physical design is jumping ahead. 🤖 #Robotics #GenerativeAI #Innovation
Using generative AI to help robots jump higher and land safely
MIT CSAIL researchers use a generative AI model to improve particular parts of 3D robot designs, helping them jump higher and land safely. The system refines its ideas in simulation before drafting a ...
news.mit.edu
July 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
MIT CSAIL used generative AI to rethink robot design. The result? A robot that jumps 41% higher and lands 84% smoother—3D-printed and tested. AI in physical design is jumping ahead. 🤖 #Robotics #GenerativeAI #Innovation
Amazon has deployed its 1 millionth warehouse robot and introduced DeepFleet, a generative AI model that boosts fleet movement efficiency by 10%. Smart logistics at massive scale. 🤖 #Robotics #AI #Logistics
Amazon Deploys 1 Millionth Robot, Launches New AI Model
In a blog post, Amazon Robotics vice president Scott Dresser announced that the company has deployed its one millionth robot at a fulfillment center in Japan and launched a new generative AI model to ...
www.iotworldtoday.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Amazon has deployed its 1 millionth warehouse robot and introduced DeepFleet, a generative AI model that boosts fleet movement efficiency by 10%. Smart logistics at massive scale. 🤖 #Robotics #AI #Logistics
⚽ In Beijing this weekend, humanoid robots played the first-ever 3-on-3 AI-only soccer match, controlled entirely by deep reinforcement learning. A milestone in robotic agility testing. Next stop: World Robot Games! 🤖 #Robotics #AI #RobotSoccer
China's humanoid robots generate more soccer excitement than their human counterparts
Humanoid robots have captivated fans in Beijing with a fully autonomous soccer match powered by artificial intelligence.
www.click2houston.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
⚽ In Beijing this weekend, humanoid robots played the first-ever 3-on-3 AI-only soccer match, controlled entirely by deep reinforcement learning. A milestone in robotic agility testing. Next stop: World Robot Games! 🤖 #Robotics #AI #RobotSoccer
🔍 New study introduces a quadrupedal robot trained via reinforcement learning to inspect narrow industrial pipes—crossing bends & obstacles autonomously. Robots patrolling inside piping? The future of proactive maintenance. 🤖 #Robotics #AI
Learning Quadrupedal Robot Locomotion for Narrow Pipe Inspection
Various pipes are extensively used in both industrial settings and daily life, but the pipe inspection especially those with narrow sizes are still very challenging with tremendous time and manufactur...
arxiv.org
July 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
💧 UK researchers at Sheffield built Pipebots—tiny autonomous bots that patrol, detect and even repair cracks underground, saving billions of liters and avoiding roadworks. Infrastructure just went robotic. 🤖 #Robotics #SmartCities #WaterTech
Tiny robots could help fix leaky water pipes
Micro-robots that can inspect water pipes, diagnose cracks and fix them autonomously—reducing leaks and avoiding expensive excavation work—have been developed by a team of engineers led by the Univers...
techxplore.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
💧 UK researchers at Sheffield built Pipebots—tiny autonomous bots that patrol, detect and even repair cracks underground, saving billions of liters and avoiding roadworks. Infrastructure just went robotic. 🤖 #Robotics #SmartCities #WaterTech
🚰 Tiny robots are being deployed to inspect and repair water-pipe leaks underground, autonomously navigating pipes to detect damage and fix issues—no more digging required. A real-world win for robotics in urban infrastructure! #Robotics #SmartCities #Innovation 🤖
Tiny robots unleashed in underground water pipes find and fix leaks autonomously
Miniature robots that can find and fix leaky water pipes autonomously without the need to dig up roads have been developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield.
eandt.theiet.org
June 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🚰 Tiny robots are being deployed to inspect and repair water-pipe leaks underground, autonomously navigating pipes to detect damage and fix issues—no more digging required. A real-world win for robotics in urban infrastructure! #Robotics #SmartCities #Innovation 🤖
🇬🇧 UK’s CMR Surgical aims to scale its Versius surgical robot globally—challenging US giant da Vinci. With £1B raised and FDA-approved tech, the question remains: stay independent or sell? A pivotal moment for UK robotics. 🤖 #MedTech #Robotics
British surgical robots should operate around the world
Cambridge start-up CMR Surgical has innovative technology but it needs global ambition
www.ft.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🧠🤖 Researchers at Cambridge and UCL unveiled a low-cost robotic ‘skin’ that senses pressure, temperature—even pain—across a robotic hand. A huge step toward emotionally aware robots in healthcare and assistance. #Robotics #SoftRobotics #AI
Robots that feel heat, pain, and pressure? This new “skin” makes it possible
Researchers have created a revolutionary robotic skin that brings machines closer to human-like touch. Made from a flexible, low-cost gel material, this skin transforms the entire surface of a robotic...
www.sciencedaily.com
June 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🧠🤖 Researchers at Cambridge and UCL unveiled a low-cost robotic ‘skin’ that senses pressure, temperature—even pain—across a robotic hand. A huge step toward emotionally aware robots in healthcare and assistance. #Robotics #SoftRobotics #AI
🚨 Nvidia & Foxconn are in talks to deploy humanoid robots at Foxconn’s new Houston AI‑server plant —a move that could mark a major shift in manufacturing automation. When factory floors go humanoid, what's next? 🤖 #Robotics #AI #Industry4.0
Exclusive: Nvidia, Foxconn in talks to deploy humanoid robots at Houston AI server making plant
It would be the first time that an Nvidia product would be made with the help of humanoid robots and would be Foxconn's first AI server factory to use them on a production line, sources said.
www.reuters.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🚨 Nvidia & Foxconn are in talks to deploy humanoid robots at Foxconn’s new Houston AI‑server plant —a move that could mark a major shift in manufacturing automation. When factory floors go humanoid, what's next? 🤖 #Robotics #AI #Industry4.0
🚀 Italy’s IIT just unveiled iRonCub3, the world’s first jet-powered humanoid robot, lifting itself 50 cm off the ground in stable flight. A major leap in embodied AI and aeronautics—humanoids that fly? We’re closer than ever. 🤖 #Robotics #EmbodiedAI #Innovation
IIT Researchers Unveil Flying Humanoid Robot: A Breakthrough in Robotics
In a remarkable leap for humanoid robotics, researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have successfully completed the first flight demonstration of iRonCub3, a pioneering jet-powered
bioengineer.org
June 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
🚀 Italy’s IIT just unveiled iRonCub3, the world’s first jet-powered humanoid robot, lifting itself 50 cm off the ground in stable flight. A major leap in embodied AI and aeronautics—humanoids that fly? We’re closer than ever. 🤖 #Robotics #EmbodiedAI #Innovation
🚀 MIT researchers used diffusion AI to design a robot that jumps 41% higher and lands 84% smoother—all tested in real-world simulations and 3D‑printed builds. Reinventing robot mechanics with generative design! 🤖 #Robotics #GenerativeAI #Innovation
MIT research: Using generative AI to help robots jump higher and land better
By Alex Shipps, digital strategy coordinator, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Diffusion models like OpenAI’s DALL-E are becoming increasingly useful in helping brainst…
roboticsandautomationnews.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM
🚀 MIT researchers used diffusion AI to design a robot that jumps 41% higher and lands 84% smoother—all tested in real-world simulations and 3D‑printed builds. Reinventing robot mechanics with generative design! 🤖 #Robotics #GenerativeAI #Innovation
🇪🇺 Nvidia’s pitch for ‘sovereign AI’ has EU leaders responding—UK PM Starmer pledges £1B, EU eyes $20B in AI factories, and Nvidia teams with Mistral on a data centre. The race for national AI autonomy is heating up. #AI #Europe #TechSovereignty
Nvidia's pitch for sovereign AI resonates with EU leaders
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been pitching the idea of "sovereign AI" since 2023. Europe is now starting to listen and act.
www.reuters.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
🇪🇺 Nvidia’s pitch for ‘sovereign AI’ has EU leaders responding—UK PM Starmer pledges £1B, EU eyes $20B in AI factories, and Nvidia teams with Mistral on a data centre. The race for national AI autonomy is heating up. #AI #Europe #TechSovereignty
✍️ Lecturers say nearly 50% of university essays now show AI influence—leaving educators stuck between policing and redesigning courses.” A stark signal that we need smarter grading tools and AI literacy, not just detectors. #AI #EdTech #AcademicIntegrity
Lecturers are struggling with students’ use of AI | Letter
Letter: A Guardian cartoon strikes a chord with a music lecturer worried about the impact of artificial intelligence on academia
www.theguardian.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM
✍️ Lecturers say nearly 50% of university essays now show AI influence—leaving educators stuck between policing and redesigning courses.” A stark signal that we need smarter grading tools and AI literacy, not just detectors. #AI #EdTech #AcademicIntegrity
🦾 Sanctuary AI just piloted a humanoid robot at a Canadian retail store, completing 110 real-world tasks like folding, tagging, packing & store prep in just one week. The leap from lab to checkout is happening. How long before they’re your store clerk? #Robotics #Automation
Sanctuary AI Deploys First Humanoid General-Purpose Robot Commercially — Sanctuary AI
Sanctuary AI today announced that it has successfully completed the first ever deployment of a...
www.sanctuary.ai
June 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
🦾 Sanctuary AI just piloted a humanoid robot at a Canadian retail store, completing 110 real-world tasks like folding, tagging, packing & store prep in just one week. The leap from lab to checkout is happening. How long before they’re your store clerk? #Robotics #Automation