OpenAI is developing a humanoid robot with Norwegian robotics company, 1X. The year is 2023, and technological advancements have finally brought us into Terminator territory! At least we think so after catching wind of OpenAI's efforts to build a humanoid robot worker using artificial intelligence, according to Futurism. Though full details of the project have yet to emerge, what we do know is that OpenAI has invested in Norwegian robotics company, 1X, and the end goal is to use artificial intelligence to create bipedal robot workers. In an effort to "thoughtfully integrate emerging technology into people's daily lives," OpenAI's collaboration with 1X $23.5 million worth of funding into 1X.

Villanova star freshman Cam Whitmore, a projected top-10 NBA draft pick, will undergo surgery next week on his right thumb after injuring it in practice on Wednesday, the school announced Friday. Whitmore will be reevaluated in early November. "We're disappointed for Cam," Villanova first-year coach Kyle Neptune said. "Throughout the preseason he's worked hard to learn our concepts and what it takes to be effective in the Big East. This is a temporary setback, though, and we know Cam will approach his rehab with a great attitude."

Aquatic robots have been on the coral reef killing dangerous crown-of-thorns starfish for years; work that would be hard and dangerous for humans. And with the dearth of backpackers during the pandemic, some farms have also turned to fruit-picking robots. The situation is somewhat different with AI doing tasks that don't require physical robot parts. Eric Swift, managing director for cloud computing company ServiceNow, said the average Australian already interacts with AI more than 100 times a day, and that in the future this would be practically constant. "Research from Deloitte shows Australians waste more than one day a week performing highly repetitive tasks, like data entry or searching for information," he said, predicting that these tasks will eventually become solely the realm of AI. "A future workforce will blend human and AI capabilities. Our'machine mates' will become teammates, and may even have their roles formalised into organisation charts."

In-brief IBM has offloaded healthcare data and analytics assets from its Watson Health business, with private equity firm Francisco Partners hand over around $1bn for the privilege. The takeover "is a clear next step as IBM becomes even more focused on our platform-based hybrid cloud and AI strategy," Tom Rosamilia, senior vice president, IBM Software, told newswire Bloomberg. "IBM remains committed to Watson, our broader AI business, and to the clients and partners we support in healthcare IT." Launched in 2015, IBM Watson Health hasn't been able to turn a profit despite the company spending $4bn in acquisitions to grow the business and its capabilities. IBM has tried to whittle down its Watson Health division for a while, after struggling to sign hospitals as clients. Professional poker players are increasingly consulting specialized poker software programs to boost their chances of winning, but some believe it has made the game less fun and encourages cheating online.

Polar Manufacturing has been making metal hinges, locks, and brackets in south Chicago for more than 100 years. Some of the company's metal presses--hulking great machines that loom over a worker--date from the 1950s. Last year, to meet rising demand amid a shortage of workers, Polar hired its first robot employee. The robot arm performs a simple, repetitive job: lifting a piece of metal into a press, which then bends the metal into a new shape. And like a person, the robot worker gets paid for the hours it works.

Robotics development has long prompted concerns that machines will take jobs from humans, but, in the US, robot orders have hit an all-time high as many companies struggle to recruit staff. Factories and industrial concerns in North America ordered a record 29,000 robots during the first nine months of 2021, a 37% increase on the previous year, according to the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). Fixed-function robots have become a common feature of factory production lines, helping to manufacture everything from cars to food products. Alongside this, advances in autonomous technology have helped fuel a global robot boom with widespread applications ranging from AI-enabled mechanical fryers to autonomous industrial plant inspection units.

The rise of the machines has well and truly started. Data from the International Federation of Robotics reveals that the pace of industrial automation is accelerating across much of the developed world with 74 installed industrial robots per 10,000 employees globally in 2016. By 2020, that increased to 113 across the manufacturing sector. Asia now has a robot density of 118 units per 10,000 workers and that figure is 114 and 103 in Europe and the Americas, respectively. China is one of the countries recording the highest growth levels in industrial automation but nowhere has a robot density like South Korea.

Ford wants to use walking robots to help self-driving cars deliver packages. LAS VEGAS – The arrival of the machines is inevitable. And Sin City knows it. MGM Resorts International this year plans to install at Las Vegas resorts an unknown number of automated beverage systems programmed to mix hundreds of different drinks – all at the touch of a button. It's a job that for many years depended on the hands of living, breathing service workers.

Using maps plotted by human employees, the AI-powered cleaners will placidly traverse the aisles, sweeping and buffing as they go--just as blue-aproned human employees used to do (and still will, in Walmart stores without an Auto-C, as the robots are called). Perhaps the most striking thing about these robot workers is how not-striking they are. Sci-fi movies suggest a future full of humanoid robots who unnerve us with their "uncanny valley" qualities. Now the future is coming into view, and it looks like a giant Roomba. It's easy to imagine walking absentmindedly past an Auto-C on a shopping trip without even registering its presence.

A Japanese construction company recently debuted two designs for robot workers that could make up for the growing lack of human construction workers. In a report from The Daily Mail, these construction robots will only be working during evening hours. One of the robots demonstrated by Shimizu Corp. is already being used in several Japanese construction sites. Called Robo-Buddy, the automaton lifted a bunch of wooden boards before hauling them to the nearest elevator. The Robo-Buddy and its partner, the Robo-Welder, featured robotic arms that can twist and turn to fit in various spaces. Shimizu expected to start deploying them en masse in the latter half of 2018.