IBM Patents a Snake Robot That Drills Curved Holes With Electrochemistry
Drilling a curved hole through metal sounds like something out of a spy gadget catalog — but IBM has filed a patent…
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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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IBM Patents a LiDAR Marker System That Gives Robots Invisible Safety Fences
What if a warehouse robot could instantly know it should never cross a certain zone — not because a human programmed a…
Waymo Patents a Machine Learning System for Smarter AV Lane Changes
Changing lanes is one of the trickiest things a human driver does — and it turns out it's just as hard for…
Nvidia Patents a Two-Stage AI Pipeline for Teaching Robots to Grab Objects
Getting a robot to reliably pick up an arbitrary object is one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics — and Nvidia…
Nvidia Patents a System That Amplifies Robot Training Data 100x Automatically
Teaching a robot to do something useful requires enormous amounts of demonstration data — and collecting that data by hand is slow,…
Nvidia Patents a Diffusion AI System for Teaching Robots to Grab Objects
Getting a robot to reliably pick up an object sounds simple — it's one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics. Nvidia…
Nvidia Patents a Multi-Layer Video Captioning System That Can Move Robots
What if a robot could watch a video and then physically act on what it saw? Nvidia has filed a patent that…
Nvidia Patents a Self-Correcting Sim-to-Real Training Loop for Robots
Getting a robot to work in simulation is hard enough. Getting it to work the same way in the real world —…
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