Elon Musk claims human consciousness could live inside Tesla’s Optimus robots within 20 years, raising bold possibilities — and serious ethical questions.

Musk also positioned the Tesla humanoid robot as an economic game-changer. The robot could be used to automate most physical labour, ranging from factory floors to domestic duties.

Elon Musk predicts humans could upload their minds into Tesla's Optimus robot within 20 years. This breakthrough may revolutionise human identity and labour but raises ethical questions.

Large language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning the functioning of OpenAI's platform ChatGPT, are now widely ...

The transneuron switches between roles linked to vision, planning, and movement. It also processes information through ...

Robots that can sense and respond to the world like humans may soon be a reality as scientists have created an artificial ...

Teddy Warner, 19, has always been interested in robotics. His family was in the industry, and he says he “grew up” working in a machinist shop while in high school. Now Warner is building a robotics ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...

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