{
  "id": 13607,
  "url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-robotics",
  "title": "Optical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly",
  "summary": "Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED emitting a beam of red light. The computer monitor attached to the receiver takes a beat to refresh, then displays an array of squares that resemble a QR code. When you hold your phone camera up to a QR code, light strikes the image sensor as only a first step to revealing the data hidden behind the black and white matrix. The receiver here is doing something",
  "authors": "Alex Music",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-26T13:00:01.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-27T05:10:06.638Z",
  "source_slug": "ieee-spectrum",
  "source_name": "IEEE Spectrum",
  "source_homepage": "https://spectrum.ieee.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13607",
  "original_url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-robotics",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}