#ai-mapping

#ai-mapping

Roborock is headed outdoors. The company best known for its robot vacuum cleaners (including the recent viral one with a mechanical arm that picks up small objects) has unveiled its first robot lawnmower. In an announcement today, the company revealed three new robotic lawnmowers -- the RockMow Z1, RockMow S1, and RockNeo Q1. Each model specializes in different situations.

Google DeepMind introduced AlphaEarth Foundations, an artificial intelligence model designed to integrate massive volumes of Earth observation data into a unified digital representation of the planet. The system, described as functioning like a "virtual satellite", can process petabytes of multimodal inputs. The model addresses a long-standing challenge in Earth science: the difficulty of combining data from diverse sources and refresh rates into formats that researchers can use consistently.