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Now You Can Rent a Robot Worker—for Less Than Paying a HumanÂ
Polar Manufacturing has been making ​metal ​hinges, locks, and brackets ​in south Chicago for more than 100 years. Some of…
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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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Gear
Make the Robots Do the Dirty Work and Save $150 on the iRobot Roomba J7 and J7+ Series
iRobot Roomba J7 | $499 | Amazon iRobot Roomba J7+ | $699 | Amazon Get your robot to work! They…
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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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These Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk
An army of more than 4,000 marching doglike robots is a vaguely menacing sight, even in a simulation. But it…
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Amazon’s Astro Is a Dog That Will Have Its Day
Steven Levy covers the gamut of tech subjects for WIRED, in print and online, and has been contributing to the…
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Why Robots Can’t Sew Your T-Shirt
SoftWear Automation is a robotics company that wants to make T-shirts. “We want to make a billion T-shirts a year…
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George RR Martin, Vincent D’Onofrio Adapt Waldrop’s Night of the Cooters
Science fiction author Howard Waldrop is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award in November from the World Fantasy Convention…
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Tesla Promised a Robot. Was It Just a Recruiting Pitch?
The Tesla recruitment presentation ended Thursday night when a person in a tight white suit, their head encased in black,…
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