robots

In 2012, Amazon quietly acquired a robotics startup called Kiva Systems, a move that dramatically improved the efficiency of its ecommerce operations and kickstarted a wider revolution in warehouse automation.Last week, the ecommerce giant…

NetworkOcean isn’t alone in its ambitions. Founded in 2021, US-based Subsea Cloud operates about 13,500 computer servers in unspecified underwater locations in Southeast Asia to serve clients in AI and gaming, says the startup’s founder and…

Often during evenings and sometimes weekends, when the robots weren’t busy doing their daily chores, Catie and her impromptu team would gather a dozen or so robots in a large atrium in the middle of X. Flocks of robots began moving…

A company has launched an unsettling robot designed to live in your home.The NEO Beta is a bipedal humanoid with uncannily human-like movements. Developers 1X say they are releasing a number of their prototype bots into people’s homes this…

Scientists created a robot with the brain of a mushroom in a new experiment. Officials at Cornell University in the US and Florence University in Italy both hooked legs onto king oyster mushrooms and created a new hybrid vegetable robot.…

Army chiefs are set to unveil Terminator-style robots that can speak to troops for the first time.They are fitted with the AI programme ChatGPT and will talk and react to squaddies during battleground training sessions. The machines, called…

In a separate analysis conducted this week, data journalist Ben Welsh found that just over a quarter of the news websites he surveyed (294 of 1,167 primarily English-language, US-based publications) are blocking Applebot-Extended. In…

The world must unite to halt the rise of “killer robots” or face a “grim future” with “civilians everywhere in grave danger”, a human rights chief has warned.Artificial intelligence-powered lethal autonomous weapons systems – aka Laws –…

Engineers are teaching humanoid robots how to boogie.Why? It’s all part of their strange plan to help humans and humanoid robots live in harmony. As we come closer to humanoid robots becoming commonplace and joining the workforce, with Elon…

Elon Musk has announced Tesla will using humanoid robots on the factory line from next year.The Space X boss said that the Tesla-made robot will be put to work in the electric car maker’s factories by the end of the year, before expanding…