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China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has revealed ambitious plans to mass-produce humanoid robots by 2025, marking a significant step in the country’s ongoing efforts to become a global leader in robotics technology.
The MIIT’s recently published guideline outlines a comprehensive strategy to develop humanoid robots, emphasizing their potential as a disruptive technology that could revolutionize various industries and aspects of daily life, akin to the impact of computers and smartphones.
Key objectives in the MIIT’s plan include the establishment of a humanoid innovation system, the achievement of breakthroughs in essential technologies, and the guarantee of a secure and efficient supply of core robot components. By 2027, China aims for humanoid robots to become a vital driver of economic growth.
China is closely monitoring global developments in the field of humanoid robotics, with particular attention to companies headquartered in North America that have been actively pursuing commercial humanoid projects.
For example, Agility Robotics, based in Oregon, recently introduced its Digit humanoid, which is currently undergoing testing in an Amazon R&D warehouse near Seattle. Agility Robotics has also revealed plans to construct a humanoid manufacturing facility capable of producing 10,000 units annually by 2024.
The MIIT’s guidelines indicate that several industries, including healthcare, home services, agriculture, and logistics, are likely to witness increased robot adoption in the near future. China’s focus extends to deploying humanoid robots in challenging and hazardous environments, as well as within the manufacturing sector.
Furthermore, the MIIT encourages the use of recent AI breakthroughs, such as large language models, to enhance the development of humanoid robots’ brains, cerebellum, and limbs.
In addition to expanding domestic adoption, China seeks to enhance its industry standards, product testing capabilities, and the establishment of laboratories, industry organizations, and open-source communities. The nation also aspires to play a more significant role in shaping international rules and standards to contribute to the global humanoid robot industry.
China has been actively accelerating its robotics development across various robot types, and it’s clear that humanoid robots are a particular area of strategic focus. The country’s “Robot + Application Action Plan” outlines a roadmap for automating ten industries, with a goal of having around 500 robots per 10,000 workers by 2025.
This aligns with the International Federation of Robotics’ data, indicating that China has experienced a substantial increase in industrial robot installations, putting them in the way of becoming one of the world’s most automated countries.
China Aims To Mass-Produce Humanoid Robots By 2025
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Over a decade has passed since Christopher Paolini last published a book in The Inheritance Cycle, and he returns to Alagaësia, this time following a fan-favorite character from the original series, Murtagh. Picking up a year after 2011’s Inheritance, Murtagh, alongside his dragon, Thorn, is searching for meaning in a…
Many Pixel owners have been left with a bad taste in their mouths after it took Google over a month to fix a serious bug, Ars Technica has reported. It first appeared with the launch of Android 14 back on October 8th, locking some users with multiple accounts out of their device’s local storage. It affects multiple devices ranging from the Pixel 4 to the Pixel 8, and for many users, it was akin to being locked out of their phone by ransomware.
Some folks were unable to unlock their devices, while others were able to boot up but had no access to lock storage. However, the bug rendered some phones completely unusable, as they would continuously bootloop and never reach the home screen. Reports of the issue appeared shortly after Android 14 launched, but Google kept rolling out the buggy release and only acknowledged the flaw some 20 days after it appeared.
The November update patch is now rolling out, but the initial November 2 release notes weren’t very positive. Google said users locked out of their storage may only get some data back, and those experiencing a bootloop may lose everything. Today’s update, however, states that users who were unable to access media storage should get all their data back once they install the November patch.
Those stuck in a reboot may not be as lucky, though. Those folks will be able to at least get up and running again after submitting a form. However Google said that “data recovery solutions are still being investigated for devices that are repeatedly rebooting,” adding that “we’ll share additional updates soon.”
The sordid episode shows how Google failed to properly implement its own much-touted failsafe systems, as Ars Technica noted. It kept rolling out Android 14 with the flaw despite multiple reports, and the vaunted dual partition system didn’t work because it didn’t accurately detect a boot failure. Finally, it took Google ages to elevate the issue to a higher priority, leaving many users stuck with bricked phones for weeks. “Little did I realize that ‘seven years of updates’ was not a feature, but a threat,” said one disgusted user on Google’s issue tracker.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/google-has-fixed-a-bug-in-android-14-that-locked-pixel-users-out-of-their-devices-061040556.html?src=rss
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We may get official details about Grand Theft Auto VI very, very soon, if Bloomberg’s report turns out to be true. Rockstar Games plans to announce the next entry in the GTA franchise as early as this week, according to the news organization. Plus, Rockstar is reportedly publishing a trailer for the game next month as part of its 25th anniversary celebration. It’s one of the most anticipated games for the current crop of consoles, especially since the fifth main installment in the series — the second-best selling video game of all time, as Bloomberg notes — came out way back in 2013.
While Rockstar has yet to launch the title, some fans may have already gotten a glimpse of early-days gameplay footage due to a leak that a hacker uploaded online in 2022. It contained 90 seconds of gameplay from a GTA VI test build, showing one of the two playable protagonists, a female character named Lucia, robbing a store. Another clip showed the other playable character riding the “Vice City Metro,” indicating that its story takes place in Rockstar’s fictionalized version of Miami. The developer later confirmed the contents of the leak and said that the game’s creation would continue “as planned.”
Rockstar will likely reveal GTA VI’s release period when it announces the game, but its parent company Take-Two previously hinted that it’s coming out sometime in 2024.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/rockstar-may-announce-grand-theft-auto-vi-this-week-045219455.html?src=rss
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Over a decade has passed since Christopher Paolini last published a book in The Inheritance Cycle, and he returns to Alagaësia, this time following a fan-favorite character from the original series, Murtagh. Picking up a year after 2011’s Inheritance, Murtagh, alongside his dragon, Thorn, is searching for meaning in a…
Xbox has teamed up with a startup called Inworld AI to create a generative AI toolset that developers can use to create games. It’s a multi-year collaboration, which the Microsoft-owned brand says can “assist and empower creators in dialogue, story and quest design.” Specifically, the partners are looking to develop an “AI design copilot” that can turn prompts into detailed scripts, dialogue trees, quests and other game elements in the same way people can type ideas into generative AI chatbots and get detailed scripts in return. They’re also going to work on an “AI character runtime engine” that developers can plug into their actual games, allowing players to generate new stories, quests and dialogues as they go.
On Inworld’s website, it says its technology can “craft characters with distinct personalities and contextual awareness that stay in-world.” Apparently, it can provide developers with a “fully integrated character engine for AI NPCs that goes beyond large language models (LLMs).” The image above was from the Droid Maker tool it developed in collaboration with Lucasfilm’s storytelling studio ILM Immersive when it was accepted into the Disney Accelerator program. As Kotaku notes, though, the company’s tech has yet to ship with a major game release, and it has mostly been used for mods.
Developers are understandably wary about these upcoming tools. There are growing concerns among creatives about companies using their work to train generative AI without permission — a group of authors, including John Grisham and George R.R. Martin, even sued OpenAI, accusing the company of infringing on their copyright. And then, of course, there’s the ever-present worry that developers could decide to lay off writers and designers to cut costs.
Xbox believes, however, that these tools can “help make it easier for developers to realize their visions, try new things, push the boundaries of gaming today and experiment to improve gameplay, player connection and more.” In the brand’s announcement, Haiyan Zhang, General Manager of Gaming AI, said: “We will collaborate and innovate with game creators inside Xbox studios as well as third-party studios as we develop the tools that meet their needs and inspire new possibilities for future games.”
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-will-let-xbox-game-makers-use-ai-tools-for-story-design-and-npcs-083027899.html?src=rss
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