7+ hour, 47+ min ago  (515+ words) Gig delivery workers, already earning poverty wages, are now being undercut by robots that don't need tips. These days, one of the fastest growing new gigs in California is "robot wrangler: workers paid to tend delivery robots behind the scenes…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (338+ words) These days, moles and gophers aren't the only pests you have to worry about tearing up your yard. You also have to watch for Cocos " pink, four-wheeled delivery robots currently metastasizing across cities throughout the US. East Hollywood resident Kaiya…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1099+ words) One of the best dishes I ate last month was a paper plate of fried rice prepared by a robot named Robby. The grains were slick with soy sauce, each one caramelized and tinged with smoke. Generously studded with threads…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (373+ words) It's all fun and games until the nimble little robot starts flailing demonically. In footage circulating online, a Unitree G1 robot loses balance while performing in front of a crowd in China. As it hits the ground, it uncontrollably thrashes its…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (605+ words) Wooden barrels are what make the magic happen in your favorite bottle of whisky. They're also the source of a long-standing problem in the spirits industry: They leak. A lot. That's not great for business, says Holmes. "How do we…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (570+ words) The US manufacturing industry is at a crossroads: try catching the leaders where they are or beat them to where the industry is headed. Edward Mehr sits firmly in the second camp. The thesis of his robotics-enabled manufacturing startup, Machina…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (336+ words) Folks, it finally happened: they gave a robot a sword. Over the past few years, engineers have often used dancing and martial arts to showcase their humanoid robots. Now to ring in the Chinese New Year, some marketing genius decided…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (656+ words) A few hours into MIO: Memories in Orbit, I wanted to bail. I didn't think I had it in me to go on struggling with this deceptively cute and extremely challenging Metroidvania about a little robot in a labyrinthine spaceship....

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (230+ words) While experts know transformative change is coming fast, normies are about to be blindsided. To stick with the pandemic-era metaphor, Tom Hanks is about to get sick. Look, is it possible that AI models will soon indisputably meet various so-called…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (639+ words) I'm a founder who spends a lot of time around humanoid robots. And while today's innovation is cutting-edge, the majority of today's humanoids are militant, aggressively masculine, and plain creepy-looking." Just look at what Tesla announced this week with its…...