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forbes.com - Prakhar Khanna - Honor's Robot Phone With A Built-In Roboarm Is Coming This Year
Honor's Robot Phone With A Built-In Roboarm Is Coming This Year
Forbes

Earlier this year, Honor showcased the world's first phone with a built-in gimbal camera system at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and Mobile World Congress (MWC). While it was exciting to see a working demo in-person, it felt like a concept…

jpost.com - AMICHAI STEIN - How Ukraine's 'geniuses in garages' transformed Kyiv's robotic warfare
How Ukraine's 'geniuses in garages' transformed Kyiv's robotic warfare
The Jerusalem Post

In the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, a new kind of soldier was born. It doesn't breathe, it doesn't sleep, and recently, it did the unthinkable: It successfully negotiated the surrender of three Russian soldiers. This is not a scene from a…

thesun.co.uk - Sean Keach - Can we really trust robot soldiers? War expert reveals Terminator is coming true
Can we really trust robot soldiers? War expert reveals Terminator is coming true
The Sun

THE Terminator is no longer a fantasy, but can we really trust robot soldiers to wage wars for us? Speaking to The Sun on Future Tech Feed with Sean Keach, a top professor has revealed whether military AI can be trusted to make snap decisions on…

the-gadgeteer.com - Rei Padla - ECOVACS LilMilo Is a Robot Puppy That Reads Your Feelings
ECOVACS LilMilo Is a Robot Puppy That Reads Your Feelings
The Gadgeteer

ECOVACS spent more than two decades teaching machines to clean floors, scrub windows, mow lawns, and skim pools. Today the company decided it's done with utility. LilMilo, ECOVACS' first emotional AI companion robot, went on sale in the US for…

jacobin.com - We Need to Move Beyond Robot Doomerism
We Need to Move Beyond Robot Doomerism
Jacobin

For all our concern with the rise of robotics and the threat to workers these machines pose, the robots keep coming. In Japan, the aviation industry is struggling to meet labor requirements, and one airline company is attempting to bridge the gap…

thehindu.com - The Hindu Bureau - Hospital hosts meeting on robotic-assisted joint replacement surgery
Hospital hosts meeting on robotic-assisted joint replacement surgery
The Hindu

Yashoda Hospitals Hyderabad on Saturday inaugurated a two-day national scientific conference and live workshop, ‘Deccan Arthroplasty Summit 2026', bringing together more than 500 orthopaedic surgeons, joint replacement specialists…

sfstandard.com - Zara Stone - Bay Area robot wars are becoming dance battles
Bay Area robot wars are becoming dance battles
The San Francisco Standard

The $40,000 humanoid robot walked to the center of an octagon cage inside SoMa's Temple nightclub Thursday night wearing a neon pink wig and struck a pose. A moment later, A-ha's “Take on Me” filled the air, and Cricket started…

indianexpress.com - Education Desk - IIT Bombay announces summer programmes in AI, robotics, entrepreneurship for school students
IIT Bombay announces summer programmes in AI, robotics, entrepreneurship for school students
The Indian Express

2 min read New Delhi Make us preferred source on Google The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has announced various summer workshops for school students in the upcoming months. Through immersive, practical learning experiences…

indiewire.com - David Ehrlich - 'Sheep in the Box' Review: A Married Couple Adopt a Robot Copy of Their Dead Son in Hirokazu Koreeda's Emotionally Stilted Riff on 'A.I.'
'Sheep in the Box' Review: A Married Couple Adopt a Robot Copy of Their Dead Son in Hirokazu Koreeda's Emotionally Stilted Riff on 'A.I.'
IndieWire

A master sentimentalist like Hirokazu Koreeda riffing on a movie as soul-obliterating as Steven Spielberg's “ A.I. Artificial Intelligence ” sounds like a surefire recipe for the tear-jerker of the year, so I was surprised to discover…

albawaba.com - Osama Ali - 'Robot Government' Sparks global debate after AI state launch
'Robot Government' Sparks global debate after AI state launch
Al Bawaba

Published May 16th, 2026 - 01:47 GMT ALBAWABA – Tech entrepreneur Dan Thomson has created an experimental micronation dubbed “Sensay Island,” in which AI systems modeled on historical people such as Winston Churchill, Mahatma…

westseattleblog.com - WEEKEND PREVIEW: Skunk Works Robotics open house Saturday (next Thursday, too)
WEEKEND PREVIEW: Skunk Works Robotics open house Saturday (next Thursday, too)
West Seattle Blog..

(Photos courtesy Skunk Works Robotics) Though they meet south of the city, Skunk Works Robotics has always attracted West Seattle students too – 10 members this past year, the club tells us. So they wanted to be sure you know they have open…

carscoops.com - Stephen Rivers - A $4,900 Per Month AI Robot Is Coming For The $17-An-Hour Guy Who Changes Your Tires
A $4,900 Per Month AI Robot Is Coming For The $17-An-Hour Guy Who Changes Your Tires
Carscoops

An AI tire robot changes rubber without removing wheels from the car. SmartBay promises faster service as shops struggle to hire technicians. Plenty of questions remain about its functionality and effectiveness. There's a new product hoping to…

thehindubusinessline.com - The hype era is over: Agricultural robotics must now prove cost-per-acre value
The hype era is over: Agricultural robotics must now prove cost-per-acre value
BusinessLine

Indian agricultural robotics has had a remarkable run. Half a decade of generous venture capital, a string of celebrated funding rounds, and steady policy attention have built a sector the country can be proud of. Demonstration plots have been…

techcrunch.com - Kirsten Korosec - RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12 billion across three startups and investors still want more
RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12 billion across three startups and investors still want more
TechCrunch

Investors can't seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas. In less than a decade, the serial entrepreneur best known for his EV company Rivian, has raised more than $12.3 billion from venture capital firms, as well as strategic and…

nasa.gov - Allison McMahon - NASA Calibration Instrument Launches to International Space Station - NASA Science
NASA Calibration Instrument Launches to International Space Station - NASA Science
NASA

On Friday, NASA's Calibration Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Pathfinder (CLARREO Pathfinder) instrument launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of SpaceX's 34th commercial resupply…

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