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Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEvolve

On 14 May 2025, Google DeepMind announced AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent that designs algorithms; it reported a better compute-scheduling heuristic, a faster 4×4 matrix multiplication method, and gains on open mathematical problems.

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AAAI-11, the Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence

The 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence was held on August 7–11, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, bringing AI researchers and practitioners together for keynotes, invited talks and scientific exchange; David Ferrucci of IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center gave a keynote.

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Robonaut 2 becomes the first humanoid robot in space

On 24 February 2011 NASA launched Robonaut 2, a humanoid built with General Motors, aboard space shuttle Discovery on STS-133 — the first human-like robot sent to space. It flew as a torso-only prototype for testing in microgravity.

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Mars Pathfinder launches with the Sojourner rover

Mars Pathfinder launched on December 4, 1996, from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket, carrying a lander and the small rover Sojourner. Between them the two vehicles flew four instruments, one of them a spectrometer mounted on the rover itself.