A U.N. meeting titled “AI for Good Global Summit” begins in Geneva on Thursday seeking ways to advise the globalist organization on “governance issues” alongside efforts to control the spread of artificial intelligence (AI) and human augmentation.
In a significant move towards the mass commercialization of autonomous delivery, Serve Robotics is set to deploy up to 2,000 of its sidewalk delivery robots on the Uber Eats platform across multiple U.S. markets.
The New York Fire Department (FDNY)’s $75,000 Dalmatian-spotted robot dog was sent to survey a collapsed parking garage in Manhattan but immediately fell over. “Oh, that didn’t work out for the dog so well,” one onlooker can be heard saying in a
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San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to pause a move by law enforcement agencies to use robots for deadly force, reversing course as a public preview of the plan generated fierce protests at the prospect of police being allowed to use robots to kill criminal suspects.
FedEx is shutting down its robotic same-day delivery service. A human in a FedEx uniform will now be delivering those packages instead. According to a leaked memo, “Roxo” the robot “did not meet necessary near-term value requirements.”
A robot designed and developed at Oregon State University has broken the Guinness World for the fastest 100-meter run by a bipedal robot, according to Oregon State University’s College of Engineering.
According to a recent report, orders for automated technology and robots have increased by 40 percent in the first quarter of 2022 as businesses seek solutions to ongoing labor shortages. One MIT professor warned: “Automation, if it goes very fast, can destroy a lot of jobs. The labor shortage is not going to last. This is temporary.”
Chipotle has reportedly begun testing the use of an AI-driven robot named Chippy which is tasked with creating the company’s tortilla chips in place of human employees.
Fast-food chain White Castle is addressing its problems in hiring restaurant workers by outsourcing some of its jobs to robots, planning on installing “Flippy 2” robotic burger flippers in 100 locations to serve its iconic sliders.
Department of Homeland Security officials are testing robotic dogs which may eventually be deployed to assist Border Patrol agents in drug and human smuggling interdiction. The agency is testing multiple models.
MIAMI, Florida — A local third-generation Cuban-American restaurant chain is integrating robots in with its waitstaff as an answer to the workforce depletion it has seen in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.
Leaked internal Amazon data obtained by Reveal News that documents injury rates in the company’s warehouses reportedly shows that the company has publicly downplayed how dangerous its warehouses are for workers and that injuries have increased since the introduction of robots to Jeff Bezos’ facilities.
The coronavirus pandemic could potentially see jobs for humans permanently replaced with machines according to a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Jobs that are at risk of disappearing include retail salespersons, parking attendants, slaughterhouse workers, and toll collectors.
Big agriculture has access to an unlimited number of foreign guestworkers through the H-2A program, but even that is not enough. They still insist on hiring illegal aliens, who make up as much as 70 percent of our country’s farmhands.
Restoration of American manufacturing must be predicated on robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), estimated Mark Cuban.
A high school robotics team in North Dakota recently created a special set of wheels for a little girl in need.
University researchers from institutions around the globe are working together to design “ethical” sex robots that have to consent before engaging in intercourse. They envision “consent modules” added to sex robots that humans would engage with before sexual relations.
Seattle-based startup Picnic recently revealed a pizza-making robot that can produce 300 pies an hour with very little human intervention.
A group of Americans are getting $7.5 million from investors to help pick strawberries with a multi-armed, electronic-eyed robot, so helping reduce the need for migrant workers to stoop for strawberries in sun-scorched fields.
Vice President Mike Pence is addresed employees of robotic packaging company JLS Automation on Thursday in York, Pennsylvania.
Rubio released a report Wednesday calling on American businesses and policymakers to invest more in domestic capital in the United States.
According to a recently published report, tech giant Amazon has unveiled new machines to automate a job that employs thousands — boxing up Amazon orders.
First Lady Melania Trump brought a 2-year-old and the robotics team that made his wheelchair on the Rose Garden stage Tuesday as an example of her Be Best initiative.
The robotics team at Madera High School in Madera, California, is ranked the number one team in the world, and has recently won an international championship competition in Houston, Texas.
The latest robot developed by Boston Dynamics is a large ostrich-looking machine that is used to load heavy shipping pallets.
According to a recent report, U.S. companies installed more robots in 2018 than ever before across a number of industries. Robot usage by Food and consumer goods industries surged 60 percent over 2017.
Logistics giant FedEx is reportedly partnering with Walmart, Target, and Pizza Hut to test out a new “last-mile” delivery robot system.
A Japanese hotel reportedly fired half of its nearly 250 robot staff following various complaints from guests. Henn-na Hotel, which employs various robots from check-in staff to in-room help, reportedly decided to lay off half of its robot employees after
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A sex robot received 92 matches on Tinder in just two hours, with 56 percent of matches open to having sex with it, as part of an experiment to determine public acceptance of the robots.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk expressed interest in building an anime-style mecha giant robot on Sunday, despite failing to get Tesla car orders to customers on time.
The United States Army is developing compact weapons platforms “optimized for fighting in dense urban terrain.”
Futurist Professor Michio Kaku claimed smart robots could “become dangerous,” and that humans may have to “merge” with machines, during an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit this week.
Adult streaming website CamSoda has partnered with sex doll manufacturer RealDoll to create an online sex doll experience in virtual reality.
A robot shop assistant in Scotland was fired after just one week due to customers avoiding him, according to a report.
A Californian sex robot company is considering the production and sale of transgender sex robots.
Robot surgeons are making it difficult for junior doctors to learn how to perform operations, according to a report.
WASHINGTON, DC — China has developed a plan to “overtake” the United States in the race to militarize artificial intelligence, robotics, and quantum computing, an expert from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) warned lawmakers, noting that the communist nation is “rapidly closing the gap” with America.
Jack in the Box CEO Leonard Comma claimed “it just makes sense” to replace human workers in the restaurant industry with robots as the minimum wage increases.
