Team NimbRo of the University of Bonn has won a $5M prize for their avatar robot system during the ANA Avatar XPRIZE in Long Beach, California. The competition featured seventeen teams from ten different countries with the goal of developing robotic systems that people can use to virtually put themselves in another place. | PCMag

Google has taken a new leap forward in AI, building its most advanced natural language processing into a helper robot that can understand (and act on) normal human speech. | What the Future