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Verdant Robotics recently announced a $46.5 million Series A funding, led by Cleveland Avenue. AgFunder first invested in the seed stage round.

A new generation of autonomous machines is appearing in Ukraine. They augur a new military era, offering capabilities that far outstrip current weapons.

San Francisco reverses its decision to allow police to use robots equipped with lethal weapons.

The SPD1 is meant to mitigate some of Japan's ongoing labor shortages as infrastructure ages and needs upgrades.

We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is train...

Sims Municipal Recycling installed four EverestLabs robots in its New York City MRF and plans to add up to four more in 2023, bringing the facility into the AI age.Continue Reading→

Developing standards on how robots interact with the public can further bolster the nascent industry of autonomous robots

It’s not every day you see one of humankind’s coolest creations come straight off the conveyor belt. Get a sneak peek at the process of building a ‘Hercules’ robot at the Amazon Global Robotics facility in Westborough, Massachusetts.

China now has more industrial robots per 10,000 workers than the United States, according to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).

Autonomous trucking technology company Kodiak Robotics won a $49.9 million contract from the the U.S. Department of Defense to help the Army automate future ground vehicles to conduct high-risk missions like reconnaissance and surveillance. The two year contract, which was awarded by the DoD’s Defen...

In order for a soft-bodied robot to be practical, it has to be simple, light and energy-efficient, yet still reasonably quick. A newly developed mechanism fits the bill, and it's inspired by the humble hair clip.

Exposed to 'droids? Symptoms may include indifference, unemployment, lower pay, along with a bit of depopulation

Japanese electronics and entertainment conglomerate Sony Group Corp said on Tuesday it has the technology to make humanoid robots quickly once it has identified how they could be effectively used.

In Howell, robotics is all the rage — and the teams keep growing. There’s something about STEM that has that cool factor. Just ask team KRASH — that stands for Kids, Robotics and Science of Howell.

Verdant Robotics announced the close of a $46.5 million Series A funding to scale its robotic weeding service technology. Read more!

Professor Michael Livermore, an expert in computational legal analysis at the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses the future of artificial intelligence in the legal industry.

Toppan in Japan has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system in a digital twin with multiple moving robots identifying people

The conversation around automation in manufacturers continues to be about making sure that human workers are in jobs that need a human.

As the city votes to allow police to use explosives-armed robots, police departments across the US face increasing pressure over the use of militarised equipment.

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Modular, portable robotic pizza kitchens will help big chains cut costs, ramp up production and improve safety and consistency.

In a paper published earlier this year in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, researchers at Inria in France show some early work getting a TALOS humanoid robot to use a nearby wall to successfully keep itself from taking a tumble.

“There’s endless potential in terms of what this technology will allow us to do,” Dr. Janani Reisenauer said.

Automating some functions could let it do more with its existing workforce—or it may not require all the humans it employs today.