Robotics Stories

Flame-Throwing Robot Dog Now Available Under $10,000 18
Boston Dynamics' New Atlas Robot Is a Swiveling, Shape-Shifting Nightmare 57
Boston Dynamics Retires Its Hydraulic Humanoid Robot 19
Walmart Will Deploy Robotic Forklifts in Its Distribution Centers 22
Apple Reportedly Exploring Personal Home Robots 71
This Startup Wants to Fix the Housing Market - with Robots 78
Mercedes is Trialing Humanoid Robots For 'Low Skill, Repetitive' Tasks 33
Bezos, Nvidia Join OpenAI in Funding Humanoid Robot Startup 11
Boston Dynamics' Atlas Tries Out Inventory Work, Gets Better At Lifting 16
BMW Will Employ Figure's Humanoid Robot At South Carolina Plant 91
'Student Should Have a Healthy-Looking BMI': How Universities Bend Over Backwards To Accommodate Food Delivery Robots 125
The Global Project To Make a General Robotic Brain 23
Google's DeepMind Unveils Safer Robot Advances With 'Robot Constitution' 12
Massachusetts Lawmakers Mull 'Killer Robot' Bill 14
Animatronic Robots Make Their Last Stand at Atari Founder's 'Chuck E. Cheese' 28
Are CAPTCHAs More Than Just Annoying? 69
America's Bowling Pins Face a Revolutionary New Technology: Strings 98
NYC Will Soon Be Home To 15 Robot-Run Vegetarian Restaurants From Chipotle's Founder 60
Could AI and Tech Advancements Bring a New Era of Evolution? 117
Robot Crushes Man To Death After Misidentifying Him As a Box 86
Matic's Robot Vacuum Maps Spaces Without Sending Data To the Cloud 24
Boston Dynamics Robot Dog Talks Using OpenAI's ChatGPT 31
College Warns To 'Avoid All Robots' After Bomb Threat Involving Food Delivery Robots 38
Amazon Tests Humanoid Robot in Warehouse Automation Push 33
Freak Accident in San Francisco Traps Pedestrian Under Robotaxi 104
Japan Startup Develops 'Gundam'-Like Robot With $3 Million Price Tag 36
Robot 'Monster Wolves' Try to Scare Off Japan's Bears 44
Tesla Bot Can Now Sort Objects Autonomously 54
New York City Deploys 420-Pound RoboCop to Patrol Subway Station 82
Agility Robotics Is Opening a Humanoid Robot Factory In Oregon 52
Bots Are Better Than Humans At Cracking 'Are You a Robot?' Captcha Tests, Study Finds 78
Chipotle Tests Robot That Can Prepare Avocados To Make Guacamole Faster 59
Nine AI-Powered Humanoid Robots Hold Press Conference at UN Summit 30
Robot Takes Podium as Orchestra Conductor in South Korea 31
Would You Leave Grandma With a Companion Robot? 82
More AI is Coming to Fast-Food Restaurant Drive-Through Lanes 103
Uber Eats to Deploy 2,000 Autonomous Delivery Robots 20
After 78 Years, Autonomous Underwater Robots Locate Sunken WWII Destroyer 39
Drobo, Having Stopped Sales and Support, Reportedly Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy 36
The First IVF Babies Conceived By a Robot Have Been Born 55
An Enormous Animatronic Dragon Caught on Fire at Disneyland 47
The NYPD Is Bringing Back Its Robot Dog 54
Walmart US CEO Says Automation At Stores Won't Displace Workers 57
Researchers Design Robot That Can 3D Print a Cake With Up To Seven Ingredients 55
IKEA Adds Stock-Counting Drones To More of Its Stores 10
Google Researchers Unveil ChatGPT-Style AI Model To Guide a Robot Without Special Training 29
AI's Latest Problem? Screwing Up Orders at McDonalds 108
Microsoft Tests ChatGPT's Ability to Control Robots 35
Almost 40% of Domestic Tasks Could Be Done By Robots 'Within Decade' 101
Google Parent Alphabet Shuts Down Yet Another Robot Project 19
World's Last Dedicated Meccano Factory To Close In France 50
A Robot Was Scheduled To Argue In Court, Then Came the Jail Threats 115
Even Reality TV Hosts Are Being Replaced By Robots 56
Automation Caused More than Half America's Income Inequality Since 1980, Study Claims 287
Rodney Brooks Reviews 5-Year-Old Predictions, Makes New Ones on Crypto, Metaverse, Robots, AI 48
Boston Dynamics' Latest Atlas Video Demos a Robot That Can Run, Jump and Now Grab and Throw 52
3D-Printed Self-Balancing Robot Brings Control Theory To Life 10
Hotels Say Goodbye To Daily Room Cleanings and Hello To Robots as Workers Stay Scarce 159
A Modest Robot Levy Could Help Combat Effects of Automation On Income Inequality In US, Study Suggests 187
Uber Eats Launches Robot Delivery Service in Miami 34
Robots Set Their Sights On a New Job: Sewing Blue Jeans 102
Meet Two Startups Bringing Robots to Restaurants 75
San Francisco Halts 'Killer Robots' Police Policy Following Backlash 106
San Francisco Supervisors Vote To Allow Police To Use Robots To Kill 129
San Francisco Police Seek Permission For Its Robots To Use Deadly Force 143
Amazon Introduces 'Sparrow' Robotic Arm That Can Do Repetitive Warehouse Tasks 33
The Difficulty of Creating a Laundry-folding Robot 75
FedEx Abandons Its Last-Mile Delivery Robot Program 32
'In the Battle With Robots, Human Workers Are Winning' 84
Amazon Abandons Home Delivery Robot Tests in Latest Cost Cuts 25
Boston Dynamics Pledges Not To Weaponize Its Robots 89
Robots Are Making French Fries Faster, Better Than Humans 161
Walgreens Turns To Prescription-Filling Robots To Free Up Pharmacists 79
Elon Musk Unveils Prototype of Humanoid Optimus Robot 75
Musk Widely Expected To Unveil Humanoid Robot Optimus at Tesla's AI Day Later Today 104
Bipedal Robot Sets Guinness World Record For Robotic 100-Meter Sprint 32
Almost Half of Industrial Robots Are In China 68
China's Factories Accelerate Robotics Push as Workforce Shrinks 23
Scientists Try To Teach Robot To Laugh At the Right Time 34
Uber Eats Will Begin Using Nuro Delivery Robots 20
A Robot Quarterback Could Be the Future of Football Practice 25
San Francisco Restaurant Claims To Be First To Run Entirely By Robots 73
Google Demos Soda-Fetching Robots 41
Russian Army Expo Shows Off Robot Dog Carrying Rocket Launcher 56
Hacker Finds Kill Switch For Submachine Gun-Wielding Robot Dog 44
Researchers Build a Bartending Robot That Can Engage In Personalized Interactions With Humans 50
Amazon is Buying iRobot For $1.7 Billion 81
Scientists Use Dead Spider As Gripper For Robot Arm, Label It a 'Necrobot' 47
AI Gone Wrong? Chess Robot Breaks Child's Finger at Russia Tournament 163
Robot Dog Not So Cute With Submachine Gun Strapped To Its Back 113
Robot Dog Teaches Itself To Walk 24
Robot Umpires Could Be Coming To MLB In 2024 70
Brain-Machine Interface Helps Man With Paralysis Feed Himself Using Robotic Arms 13
Scientists Unveil Bionic Robo-fish To Remove Microplastics From Seas 21
Israel Ministry of Defense To Test Drone-Packing Advanced Robotic Tank 47
Scientists Covered a Robot Finger In Living Human Skin 51
Fearing Lawsuits, Factories Rush To Replace Humans With Robots in South Korea 95
Workplace Robot Orders Jumped By 40% In First Quarter 47
TomTom To Cut 500 Jobs Because of Automation Advancements 62
Robot Orders Jumped 40% in 2022's First Three Months 195
Tiny Robotic Crab Is Smallest-Ever Remote-Controlled Walking Robot 20
Dyson's Been Secretly Working On Robots That Do Household Chores 36
NY State is Giving Out Hundreds of Robots as Companions For the Elderly 52
Uber Launches Robot Food Delivery in California 24
Swarming Drones Autonomously Navigate a Dense Forest 15
Autonomous Robots Used In Hundreds of Hospitals At Risk of Remote Hijacks 15
AI-Powered Artificial Fingertip Gives Robots a Nearly Humanlike Touch 7
Ai-Da Becomes First Robot To Paint Like An Artist 33
Boston Dynamics' Logistics Robot Is Available For Purchase 30
Walgreens Turns To Robots To Fill Prescriptions 66
Cornell Researchers Taught a Robot To Take Airbnb Photos 8
Lawmakers Express 'Extreme Concern' Over Border Robot Dog Plan 134
Amazon's Astro Home Robot Remains Elusive Six Months After Debut 15
White Castle To Hire 100 Robots To Flip Burgers 268
South Korea To Allow Delivery Robots on Public Roads in 2023 6
Boston Dynamics' Stretch Can Move 800 Heavy Boxes Per Hour 91
China Lays Out Path To Become Robotics Powerhouse by 2025 22
Why the Air Force Wants To Put Lidar On Robot Dogs 18
Cuttlefish-Like Robots Are Far More Efficient Than Propeller-Powered Machines 49
Tyson Foods To Spend $1.3 Billion To Automate Meat Plants 135
'Deep Fake' Technology Used to Perfectly Re-Create a Radio Announcer's Voice 44
A New Humanoid Robot Has the Most Advanced and Realistic Facial Expressions Yet 44
World's First Living Robots Can Now Reproduce, Scientists Say 77
'Cyber Grinches' Snatching Toys Should Be Stopped, Lawmakers Say 161
Alphabet Puts Prototype Robots To Work Cleaning Up Google's Offices 31
America Is Hiring a Record Number of Robots 91
Stanford Engineers Team Up With Michelin-Star Chef To Build Modular Restaurants 52
The Rolling Stones Recreate 'Start Me Up' Video With Boston Dynamics Robot Dog 'Spot' 33
Egyptian Security Forces Detain Humanoid Robot, Suspecting Espionage 36
Is It Time for Baseball to Adopt Robot Umpires? 100
They're Putting Guns on Robot Dogs Now 197
Robots Take Over Italy's Vineyards as Wineries Struggle With Covid-19 Worker Shortages 49
Leaked Documents Show How Amazon's Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do 36
Amazon Just Revealed its First Home Robot 83
NYT: Iran Nuclear Scientist Was Killed By an 'AI-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine' 353
Boston Dynamics' Spot Becomes a Robotic Watchdog for Hyundai 17
Singapore Police Deploy Snitch Bots To Test Searching for 'Undesirable Social Behaviors' 155
Astronauts In Space Will Soon Resurrect An AI Robot Friend Called CIMON 17
Automation Is Now Taking Service Jobs Once Thought Safe 286
The 'Dead Internet' Theory Posits Forums are Now Almost Entirely Overrun By AI 147
Misaligned Factory Robot May Have Sparked Chevy Bolt Battery Fires 42
Elon Musk Reveals 'Tesla Bot', a Humanoid Robot Utilizing Tesla AI 128
Boston Dynamics Teaches Atlas Robot Parkour 66
With Undersea Robots, an Air Force Navigator Lost Since 1967 Is Found 15
In Hawaii, Robot Dogs Join the Police Force 42
Humanoid Robot Keeps Getting Fired From His Jobs 55
Stumble-proof Robot Adapts To Challenging Terrain in Real Time 15
Grubhub Will Use Russian-made Robots To Deliver Food on College Campuses 55
Will a Pandemic Wave of Automation Be Bad News for Workers? 226
Do Security Robots Reduce Crime? 50
Hyundai Acquires Boston Dynamics, Company Most Famous For Robot Police Dogs 84
Chinese Startup Unitree Begins Selling a Headless Robot Dog for $2,700 69
Robotic AI-Powered Ship Tries Retracing Mayflower's Voyage, Has to Turn Back 34
McDonald's Starts Testing Automated Drive-Thru Ordering 133
Sidewalk Robots are Now Delivering Food in Miami 74
Instacart Bets on Robots To Shrink Ranks of 500,000 Gig Shoppers 43
Robots and AI Will Guide Australia's First Fully Automated Farm 41
New York Returns Its Police 'Robodog' After a Public Outcry 102
Someone Called the Cops On Their Own Smart Vacuum 48
DNA Robots Designed In Minutes Instead of Days 16
No Human Can Match This High-Speed Box-Unloading Robot Named After a Pickle 94
Bezos Says Amazon Workers Aren't Treated Like Robots, Unveils Robotic Plan To Keep Them Working 70
Farming Startup Unveils Self-Driving Robot That Uses AI To Zap Weeds 98
Korean Workers Need To Make Space For Robots, Minister Says 26
How Children Beating Up a Robot Inspired a New Escape Maneuver System 87
MIT Researchers Use Radio Waves To Help Robots Find Hidden Objects 15
Swiss Robots Use UV Light To Zap Viruses Aboard Passenger Planes 66
Boston Dynamics' New Robot Doesn't Dance. It Has a Warehouse Job 51
New Online Science Fiction Dictionary Pushes Back Origin of the Word 'Robot' to 1920 44
Researchers Found a Way To Send Tiny Robots Into Mouse Brains 22
British Army To Be Reduced By About 10,000 Soldiers As Part of Move Towards Robots, Drones, and Cyber Warfare 73
New Soba Noodle-Making Robot at Japan Train Station Eatery Can Cook 150 Servings an Hour 66
'Reliable Robotics' Startup Wants To Fill the Skies With Cargo-Filled Robot Planes 51
Sidewalk Robots Get Legal Rights As 'Pedestrians' 64
Boston Dynamics Is Selling its 70-Pound Robot Dog To Police Departments 126
MIT Is Building a 'One-Stop Shop' For 3D-Printing Robots 6
Robots Are Speeding Up the Most Boring Job In Astronomy 20
Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog Gets an Arm Attachment, Self-Charging Capabilities 51
See Boston Dynamics' Robots Bust Freakishly Good Moves On the Dance Floor 59
Hyundai Motor Buys 80% of Robotics Firm Boston Dynamics 40
This Robot Can Rap 29
Hyundai Reportedly In Talks To Buy Softbank-Owned Boston Dynamics 15
As UK Military Begins Mass Coronavirus Testing, Head of Armed Forces Ponders Robot Soldiers 47
Walmart Ends Contract With Robotics Company, Opts For Human Workers Instead 46
How Robots, Some Autonomous, Are Helping Our Response to COVID-19 17
Nvidia Unveils Jetson Nano 2GB, a Single Board Computer 35
Giant Gundam Robot In Japan Makes Its First Moves 68
3D Printing Inside the Body Could Patch Stomach Ulcers 34
Boston Dynamics CEO Talks Profitability and the Company's Next Robots 24
Pandemic May Permanently Replace Some Human Jobs With Machines 98
A Closer Look At Elon Musk's Neuralink Surgical Robot 44
Amazon Go's Cashierless Tech May Come To Whole Foods As Soon As Next Year 77
Japan Is Running Diagnostic Tests On Its First Real Gundam 108
Amazon's Engineers Are Building Robots In Their Garages 10
Rock From Mars Heads Home After 600,000 Year Odyssey Across Space 38
China's Tianwen-1 Mars Rover Rockets Away From Earth 36
Burger-Flipping Robot 'Flippy' Gets New Test at White Castle 94
Tyson Bets On Robots To Tackle Meat Industry's Worker Shortage 63
PlayStation's Secret Weapon: A Nearly All-Automated Factory 56
Boston Dynamics Starts Selling Its Spot Robot -- For $74,500 55
Lego Unveils New 'Robot Inventor' Mindstorms Kit 42
MIT Builds Robot Hand That Can 'See and Feel' Objects 9
Dutch Restaurant Will Re-Open With Robot Waiters 65
Jack Dorsey Tells Andrew Yang: 'AI is Coming For Programming Jobs' 211
Is Now The Time to Make a Deal With Our Robot Overlords? 90
Gartner Predicts $300 Billion Less IT Spending, More Spending on Cloud Services and Automation 33
Dogs Obey Commands Given by Social Robots 76
Amazon Built a Roving Robot Covered in UV Light Bulbs that Could Kill the Coronavirus in Warehouses and Whole Foods Stores 122
Boston Dynamics Open-Sources Health Care Robotics Toolkit, Sends 'Spot' Robot To Help Hospitals Remotely Treat COVID-19 Patients 20
Elon Musk Still Predicts 1 Million Tesla Robotaxis By the End of the Year 125
During the Pandemic, Will Robots Take Over More Human Jobs? 142
Man Says He's Fallen in Love With an AI Chatbot 165
Could Robots Help Us Fight Infectious Diseases? 29
Bay Area Group Pushes $1,000 Universal Basic Income For Everyone 352
If Robots Steal So Many Jobs, Why Aren't They Saving Us Now? 131
Europe and Russia's Robotic Mission To Mars Is Delayed Until 2022 14
Facebook Has Built a Fleet of Robots To Patrol Its Data Centers 48
Will The Next Job Impacted By Automation Be App Development? 149
When AI Can't Replace a Worker, It Watches Them Instead 50
Robot Analysts Outwit Humans on Investment Picks, Study Shows 52
Japanese Robot Could Call Last Orders on Human Bartenders 91
PETA Suggests Celebrating Groundhog Day With a Weather-Predicting AI-Enabled Robot 69
Underwater Robot Reveals Hidden Base of Antarctica's 'Doomsday' Glacier 47
A Man Diagnosed With Wuhan Coronavirus Near Seattle Is Being Treated Largely By a Robot 58
Spot the Robot Dog Trots Into the Big, Bad World 22
Mars Rover Temporarily Froze In Place Following Software Error 45
Oregon Supreme Court Approves Measure To Limit Self-Checkout Lanes 406
Facebook Trains An AI To Navigate Without Needing a Map 25
Machine Repairs Injured Human Livers and Keeps Them Alive Outside the Body For One Week 36
Scientists Use Stems Cells From Frogs To Build First Living Robots 37
Welcome To Walmart. The Robot Will Grab Your Groceries. 46
Zume Is Laying Off Half Its Staff and Shuttering Its Robotic Pizza Delivery Business 58
Sony's Robot Dogs Are Helping Japanese People Find Companionship 26
Couple Reports 'Intruder' To 911. It Turns Out To Be Their Roomba Vacuum Cleaner 85
Fast Retailing, the World's Third-Largest Retailer, Says It's Cracked the Final Barrier To Full Automation 93
Uniqlo's Tokyo Warehouse is 90% Robotic 34
Will Robots Wipe Out Wall Street's Highest-Paying Jobs? 71
Amazon Proposes a Home Robot that Asks You Questions When It's Confused 30
FedEx Warned Not To 'Invade' New York City With Sidewalk Robots 49
US Police Already Using 'Spot' Robot From Boston Dynamics In the Real World 36
Ask Slashdot: When Robots Are Ultra-Lifelike Will It Be Murder To Switch One Off? 226
You Can Now Buy Pretend Food for Your $2,900 Sony Robot Dog 40
Boeing Fires Its Fuselage-Assembling Robots, Goes Back To Using Humans 100
Boston Dynamics CEO on the Company's Top 3 Robots, AI, and Viral Videos 6
American Robots Lose Jobs To Asian Robots as Adidas Shifts Manufacturing 85
Gartner Predictions Reveal How AI Will Change Our World 47
'Ocean Cleanup' Project Unveils New Solar-Powered Robot That Collects Plastic From Rivers 27
Japanese Hotel Chain Sorry That Hackers May Have Watched Guests Through Bedside Robots 21
Company Offers To Pay You $130,000 To Put Your Face On a Robot 35
Is Andrew Yang Wrong About Robots Taking Our Jobs? 159

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