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A robot on a factory floor can carry parts, scan shelves, and move around people with growing skill. What it still struggles ...

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Smarter robots aren’t the only end game for world models. Castricato started Overworld last year and the tiny Rhode Island-based startup is now building video game worlds where a scene, say, of a ...

Conceived as a sequence of unfolding spaces, Rajeev Sethi's Delhi home dissolves boundaries between floors, people and the ...