IBM Patents a System That Picks the Cheapest Drone Delivery Route in Real Time
Before a drone ever leaves the ground, IBM's patent wants a computer to have already calculated the cheapest possible path, chosen the…
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Nvidia Patent Reveals Robots That Mentally Rehearse Tasks Before Acting
Before a robot picks up an object or opens a drawer, what if it could first watch a video of itself doing…
NVIDIA Patent: An AI That Generates Physically Accurate Simulated Reality as Video
Nvidia is building what it calls a 'digital twin of the world', an AI that watches video, reads a text description of…
Intel Patents a Way to Keep Ray-Traced Graphics Running Without Full Scene Rebuilds
Every time an object moves in a ray-traced scene, the invisible map that guides light rays can silently fall apart. Intel's new…
Nvidia Patent Covers Humanoid Robot Control via Human Motion Capture Teleoperation
Nvidia is patenting a way to use a human body as a live teaching tool for humanoid robots, combining motion-capture gloves and…
Samsung Patents a Robot Vacuum That Estimates How Long Cleaning Will Take
Your robot vacuum knows how to clean, but it has no idea how long it will take. Samsung wants to fix that…
IBM Patents an AI System That Sends Drones to Fight Fires With Sound
IBM has filed a patent for a system that uses AI to coordinate fleets of drones to fight fires, not with water…
Samsung's New Patent Teaches Robot Arms to Ask "Can I Reach That?" Before Moving
Before a robot arm reaches for something, it needs to know two things: can it physically get there, and will it crash…
Nvidia's New Patent Teaches AI to Simulate the Physical World So Robots Don't Have to Learn the Hard Way
Nvidia is patenting a way to train an AI that can watch a scene, read a text description, and then generate a…
Nvidia's New Patent Teaches Robots by Showing Them AI Videos of Themselves
Training a robot normally means thousands of hours of real-world trial and error. Nvidia's new patent wants to skip most of that…
Qualcomm Patents a Circuit That Kills the Click When Your Audio Chip Switches Power
That faint click or pop you sometimes hear through headphones when a device wakes up or changes volume isn't random noise, it's…
Samsung Patents a Coordinated Power-Failure Shield for Multi-Drive Storage Systems
When a server loses power mid-write, the data in transit can vanish or get corrupted. Samsung's new patent describes a way for…
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