Boston Dynamics’ latest humanoid is quietly and leaps and bounds improving behind the scenes. It was announced in April, and in August we got a transient insight into the ability of the electric Atlas with a video of the robot doing push-ups. The latest moviereleased Wednesday, shows the robot doing work in an illustration space, moving engine parts between containers.

Boston Dynamics is quick to notice that actions are performed autonomously, without “prescribed or remotely controlled movements.” This disclaimer is seemingly a shadow solid over other humanoid demonstrations which were misleading in an try and attract attention online.

The video comes two weeks after Hyundai’s robotics company announced a landmark agreement with the Toyota Research Institute. It’s unclear how much of the three-minute video is the results of this partnership, which sees TRI bring impressive robotics learning capabilities and real-time adaptations to the platform.

Boston Dynamics notes: “The robot is capable of detect and reply to changes within the environment (e.g., moving equipment) and operational errors (e.g., cover not in place, tripping, collision with the environment) using a mix of vision, force, and proprioceptive sensors “

As with competitors like Figura, Tesla and Apptronik, Boston Dynamics’ first applications for the two-legged robot include work in car factories. This focus is sensible considering the corporate is currently owned by Hyundai, which has decided to strike a cope with Toyota’s research wing. The automotive industry has also been well ahead of the automation curve for many years.

In addition to autonomously performing tasks, the video shows off the impressive adaptive — and powerful — actuators because the robot rotates on the waist. The motion minimizes movements, saving precious seconds in the method.

Swiggy, one of India’s largest food delivery and fast commerce startups, is seeking a valuation of as much as $11.3 billion in its IPO, representing a 57% discount to Zomato’s market capitalization.

The loss-making Bengaluru-based company has set an IPO price band of ₹371-390 ($4.41-$4.64) per share in its IPO next month. At the high end, the valuation would represent only a small premium to the corporate’s market value of $10.7 billion in early 2022, which is removed from recent valuations by mutual fund investors Invesco and Baron.

Swiggy goals to lift $1.34 billion, of which $535 million will likely be through a fresh share issue and the remainder through exit from existing investors. Swiggy, which led India’s food delivery market 4 years ago and pioneered fast trading, has since lost significant market share in each segments. In terms of fast trading, it currently ranks third behind Zomato’s BlinkIt and Nexus-powered Zepto.

Zomato, which recently announced plans to lift as much as $1 billion through a professional institutional placement, currently has a market capitalization of $26.2 billion.

According to reports, artificial intelligence (AI) is developing. initiated a new trend on the labor market called “silent shooting”.

Quiet layoffs are the opposite of silent exits, a trend that gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic when employees did the bare minimum to quickly avoid being laid off with severance pay. Quiet layoffs are when employers make things harder in the hope that folks will leave and their jobs will likely be automated.

Experts equivalent to George Kailas, CEO of Prospero.Ai, consider that some employers are intentionally making paperwork harder, especially technology firms. “So when Amazon pushes a five-day office week despite the fact that 90% of their employees are ‘unsatisfied’ and 73% are considering leaving, it doesn’t fit the ‘cool tech office’ atmosphere of the past,” Kailas wrote.

“Maybe Amazon is quietly laying off workers, making the workplace inhospitable. Because the best way to reduce retention while saving on severance pay would be to eliminate remote work.”

Research by Live Data Technologies shows that worker growth at large technology firms has fluctuated over the past two years. In 2022, this number increased by 5% after which decreased. The trend repeated itself in March 2024, when employment numbers rose again, only to say no just two months later in May.

Artificial intelligence is being blamed for the alarming numbers, but other experts aren’t buying it. – says MIT professor and economist Daron Acemoglu only 5% of jobs could be replaced or operated using artificial intelligence over the next 10 years and concludes that the technology is simply not reliable enough. “A lot of money will be wasted. “This 5% will not make an economic revolution,” Acemoglu said.

“You need highly reliable information or the ability of those models to faithfully implement certain steps that employees have previously performed. They can do that in a number of places with some human supervision… but in most places this is impossible.

Kailas says almost 18% of people that once worked for large tech firms in 2023-2024 are still unemployed because “artificial intelligence is booming and the rest of the labor market is stagnating or declining if you look at unemployment numbers.”

Lack of commitment may contribute to those claims. Gallup survey results showed a 5% decline in engagement among Generation Z and young millennials. Richard Wahlquist, CEO of the American Staffing Association, says nearly three in 10 staff usually are not actively engaged at work.