Samsung Patents a Robot That Figures Out What You're Looking At
Imagine telling a robot 'bring me that' while glancing at a bottle on the counter — and it actually knows what 'that'…
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Grippers, joints, motors, and the machines they add up to. These filings show which robots Big Tech actually plans to build.
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Samsung Patents a Layer-by-Layer 3D Escape Route Finder for Robots
When a robot rolls into a crowded hallway, it doesn't just need to know what's blocking the floor — it needs to…
IBM Patents a Drone-Based System That Extends a Car's Vision in Fog or Snow
Fog and heavy snow are genuinely hard problems for self-driving cars — the sensors that work great in sunshine can go nearly…
Nvidia Patents a Foundation Model for Zero-Shot Stereo Depth Estimation
Nvidia is patenting a depth-estimation model that can figure out how far away objects are from a pair of cameras — without…
Nvidia Patents a Progressive Difficulty Training Loop for Robot Control AI
Training a robot AI on tasks that are too hard from the start is a recipe for failure — so Nvidia's latest…
Nvidia Patents a Teacher-Student AI Loop for Dexterous Robot Grasping
Teaching a robot hand to reliably pick up an arbitrary object is one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics. Nvidia's latest…
Geometric Fabrics Enable Smarter Robot Grasping
Getting a robot to reliably pick up a real object — without fumbling, crashing into it, or giving up — is one…
Samsung Patents a Context-Aware Camera That Shifts Frame Rates While Moving
Samsung is patenting a system that lets a moving device — think a robot, a drone, or an autonomous vehicle — automatically…
Samsung Patents a Layered AI System for Precise Robot Motion Control
Teaching a robot to 'clean the table' is easy to say and brutally hard to execute — Samsung's new patent tackles that…
Samsung Patents a Robot Vacuum That Physically Moves Obstacles to Clean Beneath Them
Most robot vacuums politely drive around shoes, bags, and pet bowls — Samsung's new patent describes a robot that just moves them…
Sony Patents a Floor-Card-Reading Toy That Teaches Kids to Program
Sony Interactive Entertainment is patenting a toy vehicle that drives over physical cards laid on the floor — each card encoding a…
Intel Patents a Robot That Guesses Object Weight From Your Posture
Before a robot grabs something from you, it needs to know how heavy it is — and Intel thinks the best way…
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