A video from China showing a factory floor where dozens of orange robots scuttle around delivering packages with extreme efficiency, removing the need for an army of menial workers, has gone viral.
A Chinese engineer has reportedly “married” a robot that he created last year after becoming frustrated with his failure at finding a human girlfriend.
The Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders is using robots to both study and treat children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
The CEO of Yum Brands, Greg Creed, recently told CNBC he believes the majority of fast food jobs will by automated by robots within the next ten years.
According to a new report by the consulting firm Accenture, human bank tellers are on their way out.
At the MARS 2017 tech conference, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos hopped into Hankook Mirae Technology’s massive mechanized suit.
Due to an shortage of laborers, the Japanese construction market is looking towards robots and drones to fill jobs usually performed by humans.
A lawsuit has been filed after a maintenance technician working on a robotic assembly line was reportedly “trapped by robotic machinery” and crushed to death.
Leftists are demanding a familiar cocktail of tax, regulation and redistribution to contain the robot economy. Conservatives need a response.
Takeout delivery robots have begun transporting food to customers across Washington, D.C. this week.
On March 9, 2017, Knightscope demonstrated at Arlington Police Department for the University of Texas and the media their R2-D2 look-alike robot designed to assist with security.
A Chinese chatbot has been told “I love you” nearly twenty million times, according to a report.
A Californian fast food restaurant has introduced a robot that flips and cooks burgers, replacing human workers at the grill. https://vimeo.com/206666438 The Telegraph reports that the robot, named Flippy, was developed by Miso Robotics and began its first day on the
Boston Dynamics’ “Handle” robot looks like an impressive piece of tech, able to leap four feet in the air and confidently navigate varying terrain.
This week has been quite a week for robots and baseball. On Monday, Jose Canseco went on a prolonged Twitter rant, in which he prophesized a future in which human beings would serve robot machines as their pets. On Tuesday, Commissioner Rob Manfred addressed questions from reporters on the feasibility of robots replacing umpires at home plate.
According to a report by the San Diego Union-Tribune, the wave of increasing automation is about to put military jobs in jeopardy.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates called for a robot tax to offset the loss of jobs done by humans as a result of advancements in automation during an interview with Quartz.
Up to 250,000 public sector workers in the UK could be replaced by robots over the next 15 years as the development of artificial intelligence surges, according to a recent study.
Hipsters beware: the new face of coffee shops doesn’t have a face at all. “Gordon” is the first in a new line of robotic automated baristas at Cafe X in San Francisco, capable of taking and delivering two orders a minute, every minute, all day long.
Google are reportedly “scaling back” support for its money-declining projects, including the viral Boston Dynamics robotics company, internet service provider Google Fiber, and solar-powered drones developer Titan Aerospace, which was recently closed down completely according to CBS News.
The European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs has voted favorably on a draft report which proposes giving legal personage to robots.
In the last year, Amazon has dramatically increased employment of robots, going from 30,000 robots in 2015 to 45,000 in 2016.
Gunpo (South Korea) (AFP) – A giant South Korean-built manned robot that walks like a human but makes the ground shake under its weight has taken its first baby steps.
Russian special forces used a weaponized robot to take out an Islamic State leader named Rustan Aselderov (also known as Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Qadari), controlling the the robot to fire its mounted machine gun into Aseldrov’s hideout while special forces secured the area.
A new bilingual customer service robot at Lowe’s hardware store shows users where to find specific items in-store by rolling around and taking them there itself. LoweBot, which has been spotted around several San Francisco Bay Area stores, wanders through
Elon Musk believes we’re headed toward a future of near-complete automation, and with it, a universal wage for the millions left jobless by robotic replacement.
Sexually explicit conversations with iPhone’s Siri and other virtual assistants are on the rise, according to a report by The Telegraph.
A conference based on the industry and future of sex robots is set to be held in December at London’s “highly-respected” Goldsmiths University.
Thanks to a breakthrough in robotic technology, surgeons performing delicate operations via computer will now have the sense of touch.
In the future, robots will increasingly replace farm workers, using artificial intelligence to plant, grow and harvest our food.
Breitbart Tech interviews futurologist and inventor Dr. Ian Pearson on everything from sexbots to virtual reality contact lenses.
A Russian robot with artificial intelligence and programmed to learn may be destroyed following its second attempt at escaping its creators.
(Reuters) — Europe’s growing army of robot workers could be classed as “electronic persons” and their owners liable to paying social security for them if the European Union adopts a draft plan to address the realities of a new industrial revolution.
(Reuters) — Swiss voters rejected by a wide margin on Sunday a proposal to introduce a guaranteed basic income for everyone living in the wealthy country after an uneasy debate about the future of work at a time of increasing automation.
Whole Foods may still be seen by shoppers as an alternative to corporate grocery chains, but the highly-profitable corporation just opened its first “365 by Whole Foods” in Los Angeles in an effort to use kiosks and robots to cut 60 percent of staffing costs and maximize profitability.
Robots may soon render impotent the strikes and bullhorns of fast-food workers demanding a $15 minimum wage.
From Bloomberg News: Chinese technology giant Huawei is preparing for a world where people live forever, dead relatives linger on in computers and robots try to kill humans. Huawei is best known as one of the world’s largest producers of
WASHINGTON (AP) — Getting stitched up by Dr. Robot may one day be reality: Scientists have created a robotic system that did just that in living animals without a real doctor pulling the strings.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Some of the richest, smartest and most powerful humans have an important message for the rest of us as they convened this week to discuss pressing global issues: the robots are coming.
Thanks to a joint venture between a university in Saudi Arabia and Stanford University, scientists have used a robotic mermaid to successfully plunder an untouched 17th century shipwreck off the coast of France.
