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Robotics startup OKA has released a lamp-shaped artificial intelligence robot designed to offer companionship by greeting people, dancing to music and playing nature sounds. Mori by OKA (One Kind Artificat) is 26.4 centimetres tall, with a cloth-covered base and an illuminated, dome-shaped head that lifts to reveal cartoonish eyes that blink and swivel. According to OKA, Mori "resembles a contemporary table lamp" and was designed to "help people feel calmer, more at ease, and more connected to the world around them". "We wanted Mori to feel like a familiar object in the home rather than an unfamiliar machine," OKA told Dezeen. "Many robots look technical, mechanical, or overly human, while a lamp is something people already live with comfortably." Gallery Previous Next Gallery Close The robot exists in two modes: a lamp setting, when it's compact and at rest, and a responsive setting, when the head is lifted and tilted.
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AEC Magazine ·
Trimble Connect platform introduces AI agents and automation to improve project coordination, manage risk and streamline workflows Trimble has embedded AI within Trimble Connect , expanding the platform beyond its traditional role as a common data environment (CDE) to connect site information with design, cost and operational workflows. The new capabilities are intended to help teams identify and mitigate risks across the project lifecycle, while keeping human judgement at the centre of decision-making. Unveiled at Trimble’s Dimensions User Conference, the AI capabilities span design, construction and project operations. In design, they include generating architectural options using live as-built point-cloud data, converting natural-language prompts into constructible structural models, and automatically classifying scanned point clouds into structural elements. For construction teams, applications include AI-powered diagnostics for machine-control systems, converting 360-degree site walk videos into 3D point clouds, and voice-driven site inspections that automatically transcribe observations and link them to project drawings.
AEC Magazine ·
UK-manufactured 2U Q-Power offers firms an on-premise alternative to premium cloud AI services G2 Digital, a UK specialist in custom-built rack-mount computers, has launched the 2U Q-Power, a high-performance GPU server designed for complex AI workloads and rendering. The system can accommodate up to four dual slot Nvidia RTX GPUs, offering twice the capacity of most conventional 2U servers and greater computing density within a rack. This is made possible by a custom chassis design that mounts the GPUs horizontally, parallel to the motherboard. When configured with four Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Max-Q GPUs, the Q-Power delivers 384 GB of combined GPU memory, enabling organisations to run demanding AI workloads entirely on-site. This includes large language models (LLMs) with 70 billion parameters at full precision, as well as significantly larger models using lower-precision formats and quantisation.
Construction Dive ·
For years, accuracy gave contractors an advantage that wasn't easy to replicate. Miss work in a takeoff, and a contractor could win a job at a price that didn't cover its costs. Count the same work twice, and the bid could be too high to win. Good estimators built careers on getting those details right, and firms built reputations on the strength of their estimating teams. Now AI is making that advantage easier to buy. Today's takeoff tools can read plans and return quantities in a fraction of the time it would take an estimator. The BuiltWorlds 2026 Preconstruction Benchmarking Report found that estimating tools still in pilots last year have largely gone into full deployment. As reliable counts become easier to obtain, being the firm that counts best starts to matter less.
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