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Amazon has developed a new warehouse robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves to find the right product to ship to customers. The robot, called Vulcan, is a meaningful step toward making ...
The footage has fueled fears about the rapid advancement of robotics and AI. A chilling incident in a Chinese factory has sparked debate after a CCTV video showed a humanoid robot lashing out at ...
A video circulating online shows a Unitree H1 robot in China malfunctioning, reportedly due to a coding error, and nearly injuring factory workers. This incident follows another recent event where ...
For a robot vacuum to clean well, it has to be able to navigate a home like a human. That prompted a switch to the Nvidia Jetson Orin chip, which means the vacuum learns how to clean your house on ...
Footage reportedly shot at an undisclosed Chinese factory appears to show a robot violently "lashing out" at workers in a clip that's since gone viral. The security camera video shows a robot ...
A recent video from China has done exactly that. In the clip, a humanoid robot designed to work in human environments reportedly malfunctioned during a test and injured a worker. The video has now ...
A hot potato: Recent efforts by tech companies to develop increasingly human-like autonomous robots have invited endless comparisons to the Terminator films. While the criticisms are usually made ...
If you're releasing a robot into the aquatic environment with no intention of retrieving it, that bot had better be biodegradable. Swiss scientists have gone a step better than that, with li'l ...
The robot is believed to be a Unitree H1, a US$90,000 general-purpose humanoid that we've previously seen breaking out dance moves alongside humans, taking the stairs, and pulling off a backflip.
In 2017, a robot named Sophia was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship, a dubious move on many fronts. Real human women had only earned the right to drive a car in the country a month earlier ...
Amazon has deployed over 750,000 robots to its fulfillment centers over the last decade or so, but now there's a new, shall we say, more sensitive addition. The company has announced Vulcan ...
During her Chicago concert, Beyoncé shared a laugh with the audience when a robot arm successfully poured her a drink. This comes after a previous incident in Los Angeles where the robot arm ...