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Mixed feelings: can China's companion robots win a place at home?
When 39-year-old Beijing investor Song shelled out 159,800 yuan (US$23,680) for a companion robot, he knew it would not be cooking meals or scrubbing floors. For him, becoming one of China's first owners of a consumer humanoid was more about…
Walter the robot' helps complete housing estate as UK aims to build 1.5m homes
The race to build 1.5m new homes across the UK could be won with the help of a robot called 'Walter'. A pioneering housing development built with the help of the cutting-edge technology has just been completed. Housing chiefs say it is a…
DoorDash is paying people to load its delivery robots. It points to a shortcoming of automation
DoorDash's delivery robots need a hand. Some workers in areas where DoorDash is using its Dot delivery robot are receiving offers through the DoorDash app to load them up. While the vehicles can navigate miles to delivery destinations, it's the few…
A Brain That Can Swap Bodies: Google DeepMind Aims To Be The 'Android' Of Robotics
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2 on Wednesday, a suite of three AI models that gives humanoid and other robots whole-body control, sharper manipulation, and the ability to work together. The system can run locally on the robot itself and…
Grace built a robot buddy during COVID. Her company is now worth $100m
At an aged care home a couple of months ago, one of the residents asked his best friend, Abi, to play his wife's favourite music from back when they were young. Hearing the music, the man's wife, who suffers from dementia, stood up and started to…
China's newest robotic wolf climbs rocks, and carries heavy loads
China unveils rugged AS2-W robotic platform with advanced onboard artificial intelligence Robot wolf climbs steep slopes while carrying heavy operational payloads AS2-W combines wheeled mobility with advanced terrain handling capabilities Chinese…
Texas company hits party circuit with robot escorts for special occasions
The newest plus-one on the party circuit can't eat the cake, doesn't drink, doesn't flirt at Table 7 and doesn't even have a pulse — but might steal the show. Whether it's a wedding, corporate conference, birthday bash or black-tie gala…
Amazon's warehouse fleet crossed 1 million robots with a new machine that can feel what it touches, and the gap in automation that kept humans irreplaceable for decades finally has an answer
Every time a package lands on your doorstep the next day, someone, or something, spent the night before pulling it from a cluttered shelf. For years, that “someone” had to be human. Robots could drive, sort and stack. But the moment…
Hyundai just committed to more than 25,000 humanoid robots for its own assembly lines, starting in 2028, and the single labor clause standing between those machines and the factory floor changes the math for every carmaker watching
Picture the busiest car plant you have ever seen. Now add 25,000 humanoid robots and the question of who, exactly, gets to flip the switch. That is not a science-fiction scenario. It is the precise situation unfolding at Hyundai Motor Group right…
The Sequence Radar #906: Last Week in AI: Open Models, Intelligent Robots, and the Price of Conviction
We continue our series about distillation with an awesome new technique. The AI of the week dives into Gemini Robotics 2. We will have a new section about AI in space. The opinion section get into a crazy idea for engineering teams in the era of…
This Wearable Muscle Sensor Could Transform Rehabilitation and Robotic Mobility
Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed a new type of sensor that can measure how hard muscles are working without needles, surgery or other invasive procedures. The breakthrough could help create smarter robotic limbs, wearable…
Robotic vacuums swept up in new US crackdown over national security risks
Certain robotic vacuum cleaners, including some Roomba-style devices, will be banned under the new U.S. policy restricting foreign-made advanced robotics, federal regulators told FOX Business Thursday. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…
We went back to Ukraine and were stunned at how much its weapons have evolved in just one year
At Business Insider, we're a little obsessed with weapons and defense as part of our technology and innovation coverage. To get you the latest from the field, we sent two journalists, Robert Leslie and Jake Epstein, to Ukraine in May. Their…
SwitchBot Kata Friends AI Pet Review: Useless if You Don't Pay Up
I'm sitting at my desk in my quiet bedroom and office. In the other room, I can hear the drone of a circulating fan, the crashing noises of my kid playing a video game, and, occasionally, the cooing or off-key warbling of the $700 SwitchBot Kata…
A chip report out of China erased $1 trillion in market value
A report this week that China has begun mass-producing specialty chips key to the AI boom set off a selloff that erased $1 trillion in market value from other chip manufacturers, according to the Guardian. The same week, the Federal Communications…
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