‘A fork in the road’: laundry-sorting robot spurs AI hopes and fears at Europe’s biggest tech event
by Dan Milmo in Lisbon from Technology | The Guardian on (#6S8BS)
Humanoid called Digit fuelled boosterism at Web Summit, but also raised concerns about jobs, safety and climate
This 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.
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