Built Robotics, Penn xLAB to develop physical AI for construction
Built will leverage small mobile robots equipped with a sensor suite to scan jobsites and build a dataset to be analyzed by xLAB researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. | Credit: Built Robotics The University of Pennsylvania’s Safe Autonomous Systems Lab (xLAB) is teaming up with Built Robotics to turn construction sites into a proving ground for “physical AI.” Built plans to use its large construction robotics dataset and a new purpose-built, data-collection robot to develop a world fou
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