{"id":215880,"date":"2024-03-22T01:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T01:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/22\/why-giving-ai-a-robot-body-could-make-its-brain-more-human-like\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:10","slug":"why-giving-ai-a-robot-body-could-make-its-brain-more-human-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/22\/why-giving-ai-a-robot-body-could-make-its-brain-more-human-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Why giving AI a robot body could make its \u2018brain\u2019 more human-like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/21190931\/SEI_196887988.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/21190931\/SEI_196887988.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/21190931\/SEI_196887988.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/21190931\/SEI_196887988.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/21190931\/SEI_196887988.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/21190931\/SEI_196887988.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/21190931\/SEI_196887988.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/21190931\/SEI_196887988.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/21190931\/SEI_196887988.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/21190931\/SEI_196887988.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/21190931\/SEI_196887988.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2423792 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"901\" data-credit=\"JOSH EDELSON\/AFP via Getty Images\" data-caption=\"Nvidia\u2019s founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the annual Nvidia GPU Technology Conference\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Nvidia\u2019s founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the annual Nvidia GPU Technology Conference<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">JOSH EDELSON\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Humanoid robots have just begun stepping into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2363110-amazon-wants-you-to-help-train-robots-by-playing-a-video-game\/\">Amazon<\/a> warehouses and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2349786-why-you-may-never-be-able-to-buy-your-own-self-driving-car\/\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a> automotive factories. Now, they are being recruited for an even more ambitious effort \u2013 the creation of artificial general intelligence with capabilities comparable to those of humans.<\/p>\n<p>US computing firm Nvidia, which has become one of the world\u2019s most valuable companies through its AI chip sales, recently announced several hardware and software products to boost humanoid robot training. The centrepiece is a \u201cmoonshot\u201d initiative, called <a href=\"https:\/\/nvidianews.nvidia.com\/news\/foundation-model-isaac-robotics-platform#:~:text=Robots%20powered%20by%20GR00T%2C%20which,interact%20with%20the%20real%20world.\">Project\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2423793-why-giving-ai-a-robot-body-could-make-its-brain-more-human-like\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Nvidia\u2019s founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the annual Nvidia GPU Technology Conference JOSH EDELSON\/AFP via Getty Images Humanoid robots have just begun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335121,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215880\/revisions\/335121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}