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bbc.co.uk - Natalie Sherman - Starbucks bets on robots to brew a turnaround and win customers
Starbucks bets on robots to brew a turnaround and win customers
BBC

Natalie ShermanBusiness reporter Americans pulling into a Starbucks drive‑thru might think they are being served by a friendly staff member. But at some locations, the voice listening to the order is actually an AI robot. Behind the counter…

bbc.co.uk - Natalie Sherman - Starbucks bets on robots to brew a turnaround and win customers
Starbucks bets on robots to brew a turnaround and win customers
BBC

Americans pulling into a Starbucks drive‑thru might think they are being served by a friendly staff member. But at some locations, the voice listening to the order is actually an AI robot. Behind the counter inside the store, baristas can…

telegraph.co.uk - Andrew Orlowski - Musk is letting Tesla wither and die while he gets distracted by robots
Musk is letting Tesla wither and die while he gets distracted by robots
The Telegraph

For years, Musk assured us that a $25,000 budget model was being developed, and we watched hours of presentations explaining that Tesla was pioneering clever new manufacturing techniques that would allow it to compete directly with China. Few…

theverge.com - Allison Johnson - I don't hate the robot barista like I thought I would
I don't hate the robot barista like I thought I would
The Verge

How much does a human touch matter when it comes to a latte? It depends. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Allison Johnson is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile…

thestar.com.my - Sun Yi - Feature: Robot adds futuristic twist to Chinese New Year Parade in Paris
Feature: Robot adds futuristic twist to Chinese New Year Parade in Paris
The Star Online

PARIS, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- A human-shaped robot set the pace on Paris's Champs-Elysees on Sunday as hundreds of Chinese and French artists welcomed the Chinese Year of the Horse, blending ancient tradition with futuristic flair on one of the world's…

bgr.com - Nicolae Bochis - Xiaomi's Dark Robot Factory Can Make A Phone Every Second Without People - Here's How
Xiaomi's Dark Robot Factory Can Make A Phone Every Second Without People - Here's How
BGR

Xiaomi's smart factory in Changping, Beijing, stands at the forefront of a global manufacturing shift. This 96,900 square-yard facility uses advanced robotics and AI to operate without any human workers on site. This dark factory can produce…

axios.com - Joann Muller - Robot vs. human: Who's the better driver?
Robot vs. human: Who's the better driver?
Axios

It's every driver's nightmare: a kid dashes into the street from behind a parked car and there's little time to react. Zoom in: A Waymo robotaxi incident outside a Santa Monica elementary school suggests an AI brain would react faster than a human…

cnbc.com - Evelyn Cheng - Elon Musk is stressing robots over cars. Here are three humanoid parts suppliers that Morgan Stanley recommends
Elon Musk is stressing robots over cars. Here are three humanoid parts suppliers that Morgan Stanley recommends
CNBC

The race is on to make humanoid robots. Elon Musk announced Wednesday that Tesla is shutting down production of two electric car models and converting a California plant to build the Optimus robot. But while Tesla tries to get up to speed, rivals…

marketbeat.com - Best Robotics Stocks To Follow Today - February 1st
Best Robotics Stocks To Follow Today - February 1st
MarketBeat

3 Robotics Stocks Animating Markets With Ample Upside to Go Teradyne, Richtech Robotics, Serve Robotics, Ouster, PROCEPT BioRobotics, Mobilicom, and Arbe Robotics are the seven Robotics stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock…

cnx-software.com - Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - Fusion HAT+ Review - Adding AI voice and servo/motor control to Raspberry Pi for robotics, Smart Home, or education - CNX Software
Fusion HAT+ Review - Adding AI voice and servo/motor control to Raspberry Pi for robotics, Smart Home, or education - CNX Software
CNX Software - Embedded Systems News

SunFounder has sent me a review sample of the Fusion HAT+ Raspberry Pi expansion board designed for motor and servo control using audio interactions with its built-in microphone and speaker, as well as LLM models. It can be used as an AI-enabled…

businessinsider.com - Jason Guerrasio - The 9 best movies coming to Netflix in February
The 9 best movies coming to Netflix in February
Business Insider

Written and directed by Alex Garland, this sci-fi thriller follows a programmer (Domhnall Gleeson) who is given the opportunity of a lifetime by his CEO (Oscar Isaac) to test out a humanoid robot he's created. But that robot, Ava, (Alicia Vikander)…

businessinsider.com - Ben Shimkus - All the ways Elon Musk's companies are already intertwined, from a Tesla 'collab' with SpaceX to Grok in vehicles
All the ways Elon Musk's companies are already intertwined, from a Tesla 'collab' with SpaceX to Grok in vehicles
Business Insider

Elon Musk is running some of the world's most valuable companies. But they've been doing business with each other long before recent merger chatter around Elon Inc. The billionaire leads five major companies: Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company…

koreatimes.co.kr - Vitaliy Kim - Ukraine and South Korea: a shared strategy for growth under constant threat
Ukraine and South Korea: a shared strategy for growth under constant threat
The Korea Times

Today, Ukraine is a real-time laboratory of resilience. We are going through a phase similar to what South Korea experienced in the 1950s–1960s: a devastated economy, a lasting security threat, and the understanding that survival is possible…

arkansasonline.com - MATT O’BRIEN The Associated Press - Startup debuts friendly humanoid | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Startup debuts friendly humanoid | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Online

NEW YORK -- As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like 'eyebrows' and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, it looks nothing like the sleek and…

townhall.com - Alan Joseph Bauer - Make America America Again
Make America America Again
townhall.com

We should not have to look backwards to see America's best years. The parlor game continues in Israel: when will the United States attack Iran? Polymarket is in on the game too, with various sums placed on different dates of the new calendar month.

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