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Amazon’s New Robot Sparrow Can Handle Most Items in the Everything Store
Amazon built an ecommerce empire by automating much of the work needed to move goods and pack orders in its…
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Elon Musk’s Half-Baked Robot Is a Clunky First Step
Some robot experts watching saw a project that appeared to be quickly getting up to speed. “There’s nothing fundamentally groundbreaking,…
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Amazon Wants Its Home Robot, Astro, to Anticipate Your Every Need
The same approach to teaching Astro with gestures and words could in the future be extended to all kinds of…
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GM’s Cruise Recalls Self-Driving Software Involved in June Crash
Autonomous driving company Cruise and US regulators said today that the General Motors subsidiary had recalled software deployed on 80…
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How to Stop Robots From Becoming Racist
In 2017, Holliday contributed to a RAND report warning that resolving bias in machine learning requires hiring diverse teams and…
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Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix its Worker Injury Problem
The introduction of Proteus comes 10 years after Amazon’s acquisition of Kiva Systems, which became Amazon Robotics. Kiva robots carry…
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This Warehouse Robot Reads Human Body Language to Be a Better Coworker
Sales of workplace robots worldwide are growing steadily after a recent slowdown in growth due to the pandemic, according to…
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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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