For decades, a humble text file governed the behavior of web scrapers. But as the AI industry grows, the social contract of robots.txt is falling apart.

AI is becoming increasingly unavoidable in websites and apps that you use. That’s why it feels so freeing on those rare ...

There are two problems with using requests for the robots.txt file to identify robotic traffic in your web log files. For one, the robots.txt request may not be the first request that you see from ...

Robots.txt just turned 30 – cue the existential crisis! Like many hitting the big 3-0, it’s wondering if it’s still relevant in today’s world of AI and advanced search algorithms. Spoiler ...

The robot’s library of physical actions was learned through a separate training process in which humans remotely controlled the robot to demonstrate how to do things like pick up objects.

RoboBrain Is the First Search Engine for Robots Scientists build a "comprehensive and interconnected knowledge base" to help robots navigate the real world. By Rachel Z. Arndt Published: Dec 16 ...