Ten days out from AWS re:Invent 2023, the generative AI space erupted into near anarchy. OpenAI, the developer behind ChatGPT and the poster child of the AI ‘boom’ over the last year, sent shockwaves throughout the industry with its abrupt sacking of CEO Sam Altman. Five days of absolute chaos ensued in which Altman joined…
Updated Oct. 25 with an analyst quote A decade ago the DARPA Robotics Challenge pumped tens of millions of dollars of investment into American robotics innovation, stimulating development of everything from humanoid robots to self-driving cars. Today overall government investment seems to be slowing, putting U.S. robotics leadership at risk in a world that is…
Altoona Area High School marketing team members Kaelyn Krouse (left) and Arrow Kelly of the advanced robotics class familiarize themselves with their class’s entry for the for the BEST Robotics competition. / Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Altoona Area High School students will test their minimally invasive surgery robot during a competition Saturday at Grove…
Youth from the Bronx Engineering for Kids robotics team take part in a FIRST LEGO League meeting. Robert D. Jones I recently had the pleasure of meeting Robert Jones, a social investor focused on K-12 STEM enrichment within the greater NYC area. Through his organization, Hand & Mind LLC, Robert has a decade of experience…
Local middle school student Aidan Willsey was on a team that took second in a national robotics competition last month, working until the last moment to teach his robot how to do the assigned task. Aidan attends Washington Virtual Academies, an online public school program of the Omak School District. Students from all over the…
Microsoft and AWS have sparked a fierce war of words with regulators in light of claims that they maintain a “stranglehold” on the UK cloud computing market. The hyperscaler duo has claimed that their investment in the country could be threatened by moves to loosen their grip on the cloud computing market, marking an embattled…
GRANDVILLE, Mich. — Grandville schools have been planning their new robotics facility for the past eight years, with construction actually beginning three years ago. In August, they will open the doors to their new 60,000 square foot robotics competition center near the middle school. ‘Other schools need to do this’: Grandville’s 60K sq. ft. robotics…
