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Hospital Robots Are Helping Combat a Wave of Nurse Burnout
Since February, the nurses at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia have had an extra assistant on their shifts: Moxi,…
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Save $30 and Learn to Build, Program Your Own Robotic Nightmare Cat
Petoi Nybble Open-Source Robot Cat | $249 | StackSocial Your cat doesn’t have to be a demanding sack of bones…
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The Elusive Hunt for a Robot That Can Pick a Ripe Strawberry
Rhee said Traptic stood out from other companies in the space because its robot doesn’t touch the strawberry. Instead it…
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A New Trick Lets Artificial Intelligence See in 3D
The current wave of artificial intelligence can be traced back to 2012, and an academic contest that measured how well…
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Now Physical Jobs Are Going Remote, Too
“There’s just no way this isn’t going to explode as a category,” says Matt Beane, an assistant professor at UC…
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Now You Can Rent a Robot Worker—for Less Than Paying a Human
Polar Manufacturing has been making metal hinges, locks, and brackets in south Chicago for more than 100 years. Some of…
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John Deere’s Self-Driving Tractor Stirs Debate on AI in Farming
Deere & Co. helped mechanize agriculture in 1837 with the first commercially successful steel plow. On Tuesday, the company unveiled…
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Robots Won’t Close the Warehouse Worker Gap Anytime Soon
AI holds significant promise for making robots far more capable. Instead of blindly following a routine, an AI-enabled machine can…
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Inside X’s Mission to Make Robots Boring
These creatures are targeting tabletops. One of them will wheel up to a table and ponder for a few seconds…
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These Robots Follow You to Learn Where to Go
Fruit and nut growers are increasingly incorporating computer vision into their work. Tastry, for example, uses AI to look for…
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