Thanks for showing me something to do with robots I never thought of. will be up tomorrow.
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Drone Innovation Powers Utility Infrastructure Automation
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I was walking around @PlugandPlayTC in Silicon Valley today and saw this drone while meeting with someone else.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 14 avril 2026
Turns out he built a drone to hook to power lines to charge up. And then does a variety of things for the power company.
We see stuff like this happening in China but… pic.twitter.com/OIzl6837oLI was walking around @PlugandPlayTC in Silicon Valley today and saw this drone while meeting with someone else. Turns out he built a drone to hook to power lines to charge up. And then does a variety of things for the power company. We see stuff like this happening in China but
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Robots extract gold from old electronics with advanced automation
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California was started by gold miners who dug gold out of the ground.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 14 avril 2026
Today I met Sina who is digging gold out of old electronics with robots.
Video will be up tomorrow.
Turns out there is a lot of gold (and other stuff worth money) to dig out of old electronics. Most of… https://t.co/eJuSliZzhmCalifornia was started by gold miners who dug gold out of the ground. Today I met Sina who is digging gold out of old electronics with robots. will be up tomorrow. Turns out there is a lot of gold (and other stuff worth money) to dig out of old electronics. Most of
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Multi-Agent Systems Surge 327% in Four Months Adoption
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New usage data from 20,000+ global organizations shows how AI agents are being adopted: • Multi-agent systems are growing fast, up 327% in under four months
• 78% of companies are using two or more LLM model families
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Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Enables Autonomous Industrial Gauge Reading
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Great to see our collaboration w/ @BostonDynamics unlocking new capabilities! Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 enables robots like Spot to read complex industrial gauges autonomously. Exciting step toward robots that can understand & operate usefully in the physical world https://t.co/PzAoo5vXj6
— Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) 14 avril 2026Great to see our collaboration w/ @BostonDynamics unlocking new capabilities! Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 enables robots like Spot to read complex industrial gauges autonomously. Exciting step toward robots that can understand & operate usefully in the physical world
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AI Productivity May Make Childcare Affordable for Families
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Raising kids well is an important and valuable job, but our societies are not yet productive enough to make it affordable. This may change!
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Automation Ethics: Rejecting Job Displacement Arguments
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It's dehumanizing to think that slavery should not be abolished because otherwise the slaves would not have jobs. It's dehumanizing to force people to drive other people around or operate a manual loom or to submit tax returns if the job can be done by machines.
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Jobs Are Not Finite: Why Automation Creates New Work
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The idea that there is a finite amount of jobs is fundamentally mistaken. There is always work to do.
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Life Sciences Agentic AI Use Cases Status and Progress
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Life sciences: Status of #AgenticAI use cases
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Rubrik SAGE: Intelligent AI Agent Governance Engine Unveiled
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Deploying AI Agents shouldn’t leave your organization "flying blind" or stuck in manual review cycles. Join @rubrikInc on April 16th for the unveiling of SAGE (Semantic AI Governance Engine), the intelligent core powering Rubrik Agent Cloud, and start scaling innovation without