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Why Manufacturers Shouldn't Care If Their Robots Look Like Humans
An obsession with today's humanized robots that go viral online is unlikely to move the manufacturing industry forward. picture alliance via Getty Images Here's a familiar picture for most manufacturers. An engineer stands beside a paint operator…
Locus Robotics Brings the Robot to the Shelf With AI-Powered Array System
While most warehouse robots still ferry goods to human pickers, Locus Robotics has aimed to flip the script with the debut of its Locus Array “robots-to-goods” system, which rolls an AI-powered arm directly into the aisle to pick…
China's Robot Juggernaut Unitree Debuts a $650,000 Personal Gundam
While the West continues its love affair with the money to be made from getting generative AI to do things for which it is manifestly unsuited, on the other side of the Pacific, it's all robot everything. Not to be put in the shade by Honor and…
Narwal's Next Robot Vacuum Promises Luxury Features at a Midrange Price
Narwal has just announced the Freo Z10 Turbo, a $900 robotic vacuum cleaner with a number of premium features you'd normally have to pay well over $1,000 for. Those include a dock that both empties the robot's dustbin and cleans its mop, as well as…
Roomba inventor builds robots designed to bond with you
The inventor behind the world-famous Roomba is now working on something far more personal and strange: robots designed to emotionally connect with their owners. You can watch it in action here. Colin Angle, who helped turn the Roomba into one of…
AI robot changes your tires and balances them too
Tire shops are not exactly known for cutting-edge technology. You pull in, hand over your keys and hope the wait does not take over your day. Automated Tire, Inc. wants to change that. The Boston-based robotics company has unveiled SmartBay, an…
Roomba inventor Colin Angle made robots useful. Now he wants to make them lovable.
Colin Angle put the Roomba in millions of homes by giving it a simple job: cleaning the floor. Now, the longtime iRobot CEO wants his next home robot to do something harder to measure. His new startup, Boston-based Familiar Machines & Magic, has…
MIT Turned 12 Labubu Heads Into a Robot and It's Watching You
Nobody told MIT grad students to build a rolling sphere covered in twelve Labubu faces. They did it anyway, and now the rest of us have to sit with that. The project is called Labububot, and it comes from three graduate students at the MIT Media…
This Buddhist robot monk can bow pray and answer questions
South Korean monks officially ordained a humanoid robot during a Buddhist temple ceremony The AI-powered monk answered spiritual vows during its ordination ritual confidently Gabi received a symbolic sticker instead of the traditional incense burn…
Family business bets on robotics without job layoffs
The company manufactures switches, sockets, adapters, extension cords and similar electrical products. (Image supplied by Lesco) Lesco, a family-owned local producer of electrical and consumer products, this week launched its semi-robotic…
This South Korean hotel worker is training a robot to fold a banquet napkin: 'I've been doing this about once a month'
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 database that will one day…
A South Korean startup captures workers' techniques to develop AI brains for robots
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…
IDF uses robots to advance in Lebanon, FPV drones will continue challenging IDF
The IDF's Golani Brigade announced on Tuesday that it recently advanced all the way to the Litani River, around 10 kilometers from the Israeli border, including using robots for portions of the operations. Generally, the Golani Brigade's area of…
DJI Expands Into Smart Home Market With Romo 2 Robot Vacuum Series
DJI, a global leader in drone technology, has officially launched the Romo 2 series, marking a significant expansion into the smart home appliance sector. This new lineup, consisting of the Romo P2 and Romo A2, leverages DJI's expertise in…
Closing the gap between animal movement and robotic control
Animals move with a level of precision and adaptability that robots struggle to match. In Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Mechanical Engineering, researchers are developing a new AI-driven approach to uncover how brains and bodies work…
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