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Danu Robotics' fight to build a better recycling robot
For Danu Robotics founder Amy Ma, the eureka moment came after years of working as a software developer at a London bank. It was the kind of high-touch office that's typical in finance — but despite all the perks, Ma was alarmed to realize…
Walmart Running Into Trouble as Its Super-Expensive Robots Can't Handle the Realities of Warehouse Work
Despite spending billions of dollars to automate its warehouses, Walmart is seriously struggling to make even the simplest of robots work. As the Wall Street Journal reports, even something as straightforward as removing an object from a cardboard…
Ukraine's all-robotic airborne assaults are becoming a new battlefield reality
Brig. Gen. Andrii Biletskyi, the commander of Ukraine's Third Army Corps, made a highly unusual disclosure late last month, revealing that his forces had become the 'first in the world' to air-drop ground robots from drones in combat. Heavy bomber…
Elon Musk Has More Empathy for Robots Than Humans
Elon Musk spent much of 2025 taking a chainsaw to the federal government and making the lives of Americans so much worse. But the people Musk harmed are merely human. The trillionaire tech oligarch thinks you shouldn't be mean to robots because…
'Jelliness is my life motto': jackpot theatre prize winner Jaha Koo on kimchi, K-pop and his robotic eel
When I meet Jaha Koo in Oslo, where he has just been honoured with the prestigious International Ibsen award, I hand him a congratulatory packet of Haribo. The alternative would be a jar of kimchi but one of the many things you learn from Koo's…
James Blunt's robotic Celebrity Traitors shower scene leaves viewers baffled
James Blunt has sent viewers of The Celebrity Traitors into a meltdown after a bizarre scene showing him in the shower. During the third episode of the series on Thursday, viewers saw the You're Beautiful musician lathering himself in soap as he…
5 Companies Fighting for Control of the Next Robotics Boom
Symbotic (SYM +1.35%), Teradyne (TER +0.99%), ABB (ABBNY +1.81%), UiPath (PATH +1.74%), and Intuitive Surgical (ISRG +2.06%) offer five very different ways to invest in physical AI. The real opportunity may not belong to the flashiest robot, but to…
2,000 Royal Stoke patients to have robotic surgery every year
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) has made key appointments as it continues to develop robotic surgery and research. The trust has appointed its first clinical lead for robotics and clinical lead for robotic research. Philip…
Watch: Influencer Fights 'Terminator' Robot In Wild Cage Match
A social media influencer stepped into the ring against a real-life 'Terminator' robot in a bizarre showdown that offered a startling glimpse into the rapidly advancing world of humanoid robotics. Frankie LaPenna, a 29-year-old influencer known for…
Warehouse robot maker Ultra Robotics bags $62M - SiliconANGLE
Ultra Robotics Corp. today announced that it has raised $62 million in funding over two rounds. Fortune reported that the company received the bulk of the capital, $50 million, through a Series A investment led by Framework Ventures. Ultra's seed…
I Walked Around Brooklyn in Robotic Legs: Testing the Hypershell X Ultra
Maybe I could jog up the flight of stairs to the rooftop of my five-story apartment building before anyone would notice. I wasn't in the mood for answering weird questions. Or more specifically, answering perfectly sensible questions about my weird…
Faraday Future targets year-end launch for US robot factory
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. is racing to bring a robotics factory online in the United States by the end of 2026, with the first robot built under the effort set to roll off the line in February 2027, according to an SEC filing…
Kerala Police to collaborate with Kochi start-up to try robots in traffic management
The Kerala Police are planning to introduce robotics in their operations, possibly starting with traffic management. As a preliminary step, the police have initiated a collaboration with a Kochi-based start-up to develop deep-tech machines that…
Calibre can now read ebooks aloud without sounding like a robot
A new update to the Calibre ebook manager is out and it brings more natural sounding text-to-speech (TTS) voices, as well as AVIF image support and better handling of PDFs that put text in columns. Calibre v9.16 adds support for Kokoro, an…
Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) CFO Eyes Data Centers, Robotics As Company Bets On Future Beyond Smartphones
Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) Chief Financial Officer and Operating Officer Akash Palkhiwala has outlined an ambitious pivot away from the company's smartphone-dominated past toward artificial intelligence, data centers, and robotics. Palkhiwala spoke…
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