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The Guardian // Technology

‘A fork in the road’: laundry-sorting robot spurs AI hopes and fears at Europe’s biggest tech event

Friday 15th November 2024, 3:00PM

Humanoid called Digit fuelled boosterism at Web Summit, but also raised concerns about jobs, safety and climateThis year’s Web Summit, in Lisbon, was all about artificial intelligence – and a robot sorting laundry.Digit, a humanoid built by the US firm Agility Robotics, demonstrated how far AI has come in a few years by responding to voice commands – filtered through Google’s Gemini AI model – to sift through a pile of coloured T-shirts and place them in a basket. Continue reading...

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