AI & Robotics

Niantic announced today that it’s making an update to its mobile title, Peridot that will supposedly give its virtual pets, the Dots, more life. Using generative AI, Dots can more realistically interact with real-world objects with their augmented space, which Niantic says will make them behave more like real-life pets. Niantic also claims it to be one of the first AR games to use generative AI…

Dacoco, the group behind the Alien Worlds Web3 metaverse, announced a collaboration with renowned science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson, known for works such as Star Wars, Dune and Saga of the Seven Suns. The collaboration introduces AI-driven tokenized storytelling, referred to as the “Large Lore Model,” a concept merging the potency of AI with the global community’s creative prowess…

Language is fundamental to human interaction — but so, too, is the emotion behind it.  Expressing happiness, sadness, anger, frustration or other feelings helps convey our messages and connect us.  While generative AI has excelled in many other areas, it has struggled to pick up on these nuances and process the intricacies of human emotion.  Typecast, a startup using AI to create synthetic…

Tangram Vision, a startup building software and hardware for robotic perception, unveiled a new 3D depth sensor today called HiFi that packs powerful computer vision capabilities into an off-the-shelf product priced at $549. The sensor aims to “make it dead simple to add AI-enhanced 3D data to robots,” Adam Rodnitzky, cofounder and COO of Tangram Vision, told VentureBeat. HiFi combines…