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• TUM: Autonomous underwater robot system to combat waste problem in ports heise online

  "As part of the EU project "Seaclear," a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed an autonomous underwater robot system that combines specialized robots, a drone, and a service boat to detect trash above and below the water and collect it using robots." – Oliver Bünte

• Meet the Robots Who Are Making the World a Better Place UN News

  "Robots like Grace can support people's health and well-being, provide high-quality educational services, reduce inequalities by helping persons with disabilities, reduce waste, help build resilient infrastructure, and broadly enhance social good, according to the UN telecommunications agency." – U.N. News

• How AI Is Shortening Drug Discovery Timelines in China AI News

  "Insilico Medicine has reduced the time needed to produce some drug development candidates to about one year by combining artificial intelligence with laboratory research in China, according to CEO Alex Zhavoronkov." – Muhammad Zulhusni

• Could AI Help Save the Planet? Four Ways It's Making a World of Difference Positive.News

  "...Google used the AI expertise of its newly acquired DeepMind to analyse the electricity used for cooling its data centres, they discovered they could cut it by a staggering 40% – and this was after they thought they'd already made them as efficient as possible." – Martin Wright

• Co-existing with AI: why replacement narratives are holding the public sector back TechRadar

  "...fears about replacement can shape how new technologies are received long before people experience their benefits." – Juliet Gurney

• More than 1,300 experts call AI a force for good BBC

  "Frankly, this notion that AI is an existential threat to humanity is too far-fetched. We're just not in any kind of a position where that's even feasible." – Chris Vallance

• A New Experiential Gallery Just Might Change Your Mind About AI Art Wired

  "I think we are literally in a renaissance," says artist Refik Anadol of this moment in AI art history. "We just don't have a name for it yet."

• "Pro-AI Activists" Are Growing And On A Crusade The Chainsaw

  "The art world has been through a lot of these debates in history. That people are policing what is considered art can be seen as regressive. Does this mean we all have to go back to painting with oil on canvas? So, there's both sides to the argument." – Professor Luke Munn