Month: June 2025

Mond: Apollo-Astronauten und die orangen Glasperlen

In den 1970er Jahren waren genaue Untersuchungen der Apollo-Mondproben nicht immer durchführbar. Eine Forschungsgruppe hat nun die mitgebrachten Proben untersucht. (Mond, Wissenschaft)

In den 1970er Jahren waren genaue Untersuchungen der Apollo-Mondproben nicht immer durchführbar. Eine Forschungsgruppe hat nun die mitgebrachten Proben untersucht. (Mond, Wissenschaft)

Google’s new robotics AI can run without the cloud and still tie your shoes

Google’s Carolina Parada says Gemini has enabled huge robotics breakthroughs, like the new on-device AI.

We sometimes call chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT "robots," but generative AI is also playing a growing role in real, physical robots. After announcing Gemini Robotics earlier this year, Google DeepMind has now revealed a new on-device VLA (vision language action) model to control robots. Unlike the previous release, there's no cloud component, allowing robots to operate with full autonomy.

Carolina Parada, head of robotics at Google DeepMind, says this approach to AI robotics could make robots more reliable in challenging situations. This is also the first version of Google's robotics model that developers can tune for their specific uses.

Robotics is a unique problem for AI because, not only does the robot exist in the physical world, but it also changes its environment. Whether you're having it move blocks around or tie your shoes, it's hard to predict every eventuality a robot might encounter. The traditional approach of training a robot on action with reinforcement was very slow, but generative AI allows for much greater generalization.

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UK looking to loosen Google’s control of its search engine

Tech giant slams plan as “punitive” and risk to economic growth.

The UK’s competition regulator is proposing to loosen Google’s control of its search engine in the first application of Britain’s tough new digital market rules.

The Competition and Markets Authority said on Tuesday that Google could be required to implement new “fair ranking” measures in its search results and give publishers more control over how it uses their content, including in output generated by artificial intelligence.

The CMA said it was minded to hand Google “strategic market status”—a label introduced under new digital market laws this year—in light of its dominant position in search and search advertising, which would require the tech giant to abide by a number of such conduct rules. A final decision will be made by October following a public consultation.

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