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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…
Building AI for Reliable Execution: Lessons From Industrial Robotics
When you think of robotics and AI, you probably first think of full humanoid robots like Figure's AI-powered machines and 1X's NEO home robots. Those may well be the future, but arguably more important in 2026 is industrial robots — which…
'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…
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…
UCCS adds humanoid AI robots to campus as learning tools
The University of Colorado Colorado Springs has two new additions to campus — and they're not buildings or classes. They're humanoid robots powered by artificial intelligence. UCCS received the robots as a donation this year. They are both…
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…
Apollo Speciality Hospitals completes 100 robotic-assisted surgery
Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Madurai, has successfully completed 100 robotic-assisted surgeries. Robotic-assisted surgery combines the expertise of highly trained surgeons with advanced robotic technology, enabling procedures to be performed…
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…
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…
Avride, Sodexo Campus Sign Deal on College Delivery Robots
Autonomous delivery robots could soon be rolling across sidewalks at hundreds more U.S. college campuses after Avride and Sodexo Campus announced an agreement to accelerate rollout of the technology at Sodexo partner colleges and universities…
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…
Futurama Season 14 Post-Credits Scene Offers Future Easter Eggs
Posted in: Hulu, TV | Tagged: futurama Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's Futurama released a Season 14 post-credits scene that included some interesting 'future' looks. Even though Matt Groening and David X. Cohen 's Futurama wrapped up its…
A message to my daughters: Don't get left behind
By now, you've heard from your professors about their AI policies. Perhaps you've also heard that AI is destroying the college experience, or that AI might cause the extinction of the human race. Or maybe AI will cure all cancers, end global…
The Guide #264: Why is Hollywood obsessed with the tech-bro baddie?
Sixteen years ago The Social Network was released and the first stirrings of a new cinema archetype were seen: the tech-bro villain. Perhaps that's too damning a description for the Mark Zuckerberg portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg in David Fincher's…
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