Robotics Stories for 2023

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

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