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How Kawasaki Uses Its Own Robots And Custom Processes For Top Quality
Kawasaki's side x side models are fit for work or play. Auto and powersports manufacturing has been shaken and stirred in the past few years with a flurry of tariffs and uncertainty about what's next. Companies like Toyota are considering ramping…
Robophobic Airline Bans Humanoid Robots From Flights After Disruption
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Southwest Airlines appears to have become the first airline to enshrine a no-robots policy into their rulebook, after a Dallas business owner tried to take his 3.5-foot robot for a…
Only 6 AI Companion Robots Earn the Emotional Label in 2026
An emotional AI companion robot is a hardware device built around presence and emotional interaction rather than productivity, using sensors and conversational AI to read tone, touch, and context for a specific kind of user. Every few months a new…
Japan built robot wolves to thwart bear attack, and they're flying off the shelves
There are very few headlines that sound equally believable as both a robotics breakthrough and the plot of a low-budget sci-fi horror movie. Japan deploying glowing robot wolves to scare away bears is definitely one of them. The country's bizarre…
AI advances are breaking into the physical world - and robots will soon learn how to do your washing and ironing
The worldwide AI race is fast developing beyond the computer screen and focusing on the physical world around us. Top labs are intent on making “thinking” robots, with brains that mimic our own, which are able to interact with the…
World Action Models give robots the ability to simulate consequences before they move
Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER A recent review paper introduces a systematic framework for 'World Action Models' (WAMs), a model class for robotics that enables AI systems to be trained using unlabeled everyday videos. Unlike conventional…
Robot vac gets £400 price cut and pet owners 'wish I'd bought one sooner
Shoppers have praised a robot vacuum cleaner that leaves floors 'spotless' as a 'revelation' after it received a massive discount in a spring sale. The model in question is available at Roborock, where there's £400 off the brand's Saros 10…
Japan deploys robot wolves to fight off bear attacks
A Japanese manufacturer that makes animatronic wolves is currently being overwhelmed with orders as the country attempts to tackle rising bear attacks. The number of fatal bear attacks in Japan between 2025 and 2026 has more than doubled the…
Japan can't make robot wolves fast enough to counter the rise in bear attacks that have killed 13 humans this year - $4,000+ animatronic Monster Wolf features intense LEDs and makes loud noises
With record reports of bear attacks on humans, Japan has been increasingly turning to high-tech solutions, as you might expect. However, reports suggest that Ohta Seiki, a firm making the animatronic robot Monster Wolf to repel bears from…
Korea to invest over $33.5 mil. until 2030 to develop homegrown AI humanoids
Korea will invest 50.4 billion won ($33.5 million) over the next five years to develop core technologies needed in artificial intelligence (AI)-based humanoid robots with universities and local tech companies, the science ministry said Monday. The…
For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis
When Lior Susan started Eclipse Ventures in 2015, the firm's thesis of digitizing the physical world wasn't particularly popular in Silicon Valley. “It was the era of enterprise software and SaaS, and it felt fairly lonely the first couple…
TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility ! There is a bit of a theme emerging in…
Workers' motions used to train AI | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
SEOUL, South Korea -- His head, chest and hands strapped with body cameras, David Park deftly folded a banquet napkin the way he has thousands of times during his nine years at the five-star Lotte Hotel Seoul. Each of his motions is fed into a…
Critic Calls Chamath Taiwan Chip Prediction Clueless and Dangerous · Digg
@Dan_Jeffries1 We got clueless governance that doesn't undestand the kind of knowledge and skill required for advanced manufacturing. The tariffs were a tell that believed that financial incentive alone leads to advanced manufacturing. DJDaniel…
AI's World Cup debut: Real-time data set to reshape football
HONG KONG — Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to make its World Cup debut in 2026, as football's most-watched tournament turns to real-time data models and live 3D simulations to reshape match strategy and event operations. Each team will…
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