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Jomboy on Robot Umpires and the Future of Baseball
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Baseball has never been synonymous with change. But in recent years, Major League Baseball has transformed radically, and this season it has embraced technology via the ABS pitch-tracking system…
Robot soccer player dents wall with terrifying kicks
A robot soccer player just gave goalkeepers another reason to feel nervous. Booster Robotics titled its YouTube video 'Try Stopping This Robot,' and after watching its T1 humanoid hammer soccer balls toward a goal, you can see why. Most of the…
China Robotics Firm Signs Star German Goaltender As Brand Ambassador
Marc-André ter Stegen of FC Barcelona has signed on as a brand ambassador for Chinese robot lawn mower supplier Shenzhen Ldrobot. (2023 photo by Stuart Franklin/Getty Images) Shenzhen LDrobot, a Chinese visual technology company whose shares…
Clothing humanoid robots new mission for Hansae
A surprising scene unfolded in front of press at the Korea Federation of Textile Industries' office in Seoul's Gangnam District on June 8. A humanoid robot walked from behind the curtain to the center of stage to face the audience, drawing mild…
Rivian CEO taking different approach than Elon Musk for humanoid robotics company
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe started a robotics company last year called Mind Robotics that he says has has raised more than $1 billion. Scaringe told CNBC that the plan is to keep the robotics company separate from Rivian, as opposed to the automaker…
Owning an Apple Home: Robots, maintenance, and chores
Whether you rent or own, there are some chores you have to complete on a near-constant basis. The good news is, you can get some help from robots and apps in your Apple Home. I'm a firm believer in optimizing when possible. If a robot, machine, or…
The Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: NinjaOne Leads With $400M As Large Deals Also Go To Blockchain, Cloud Infrastructure, Biotech And Robotics
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week's top 10…
Killer robots are here - we must finally decide whether to accept them
For years, we have had unconfirmed reports and rumours that AI-controlled weapons have killed soldiers on the battlefield without a human in the loop. Now, we know it has happened. As we report here, the use of autonomous killers in a test exercise…
Husqvarna Makes Great Landscaping Tools, but Can it Make a Good Robot Mower? We Put One to the Test.
Mowing the lawn: love it or loathe it? If you decidedly hate being chained to this tediously routine chore, you might just want to give a robot lawn mower some consideration. While investing in this type of technology may seem pricey, not to…
If You Have $10,000 And Want To Bet on AI and Robotics, These Are The Investments I'd Pick
Artificial intelligence and robotics remain among the most popular investment themes on the market. The problem is that a lot of investors approach them the wrong way. Rather than trying to identify the next moonshot startup before everyone else, I…
LSSU professor to be honored for shaping future of robotics and automation
Jim Devaprasad, a professor at Lake Superior State University, has been named the 2026 Educator of the Year by the Association for Advancing Automation. The award will be presented on June 23, 2026, at the annual Automate 2026 Robotics and…
Inbox Zero, but the Inbox Belongs to a Robot
8:30 AM: you kick off the inbox-zero loop while the coffee brews. 8:35 AM: yesterday's 50 unread messages are sorted into four buckets, replies are drafted for the ones that matter, the noise is archived, and you've approved the lot with a few…
MB&F's New HM12 Timepiece Transforms Into a Robot for Your Desk
Today, watches aren't needed to tell time—at minimum, they are playthings for the well-heeled and at best, works of art. At MB&F they are often both. No one knows better than founder Max Büsser that timepieces are a sort of modern…
Two days, one drone killer: How defense companies built a wheeled counter-UAS robot at the Army's Operation Jailbreak
Out near the Rocky Mountains, Ben Meager found a good spot to park his robot vehicle. It was the best place to park in a lot packed with some of the defense industry's newest tech, but it also happened to sit next to a counter-drone turret he'd…
What does Amazon investing £1bn mean for Northamptonshire?
To the untrained eye, Amazon's newest fulfillment centre is a vast behemoth. But behind the metal panels and glass windows lay four floors of warehouse with advanced technology enabling the convenience of next or even same-day delivery. The massive…
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