A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms
By Bloomberg Published on November 18, 2025 Spot, the four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics Inc., is perhaps best known for its viral dance routines to songs like “Uptown Funk.” But beyond its playful antics, Spot’s ability to climb stairs and open doors signals a potentially controversial role as a policing tool. Five years after its […]
Alarming New Video Shows Robot Making Incredibly Realistic Facial Expressions
By Futurism Published on September 20, 2025 A robotics company in China has shown off a humanoid robotic head that can express emotions through extremely subtle movements of its facial features. A video that has gone viral on social media shows the face glancing around the room with a quizzical expression. Its eyes blink in […]
Watching This Humanoid Robot Sort Packages Is Quite Something
By futurism Published on June 13, 2025 Earlier this year, humanoid robotics company Figure showed off its Figure 02 robot using a sophisticated visual language system called Helix to sort packages at a logistics warehouse. Footage showed a small army of the humanoid robots deftly picking up packages of various sizes, shapes, and hardnesses, and […]
Forget Humanoids. At MIT, Worms and Turtles Are Inspiring a New Generation of Robots
By WSJ Published on May 16, 2025 CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Everyone is obsessed with humanoid robots right now, but the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory thinks tomorrow’s intelligent physical machines could be something radically different. Think soft and squishy robots, says Daniela Rus. Picture flexible robots, or even edible ones. Her research group […]
This Robotic Centipede Crawls Farms to Kill Weeds — and Might Join the Military
By THE__BYTE Published on May 16, 2025 As IEEE Spectrum reports, Georgia Tech spinoff Ground Control Robotics has created a bio-inspired centipede that uses sensors and plenty of motor-actuated limbs to control weeds. “Centipede robots, like snake robots, are basically swimmers,” founder Dan Goldman told IEEE Spectrum. “We created a new kind of mechanism to […]
Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China
By The Guardian Published on April 03, 2025 On a misty Saturday afternoon in Shenzhen’s Central Park, a gaggle of teenage girls are sheltering from the drizzle under a concrete canopy. With their bags of crisps piled high in front of them, they crowd around a couple of smartphones to sing along to […]
In a first, surgical robots learned tasks by watching videos
By The Washington Post Published on December 30, 2024 They don’t get fruitcakes or Christmas cards from grateful patients, but for decades robots have been helping doctors perform gallbladder removals, hysterectomies, hernia repairs, prostate surgeries and more. While patients lie unconscious on the operating table, robotic arms and grippers work on their bodies at […]
Physical Intelligence, a Robot A.I. Specialist, Raises Millions From Bezos
By The New York Times Published on November 04, 2024 The start-up raised $400 million in a funding round with investments from the likes of Jeff Bezos, Thrive Capital and OpenAI. Physical Intelligence, an artificial intelligence start-up seeking to create brains for a wide variety of robots, plans to announce on Monday that […]
Rise of the Restaurant Robots: Chipotle, Sweetgreen and Others Bet on Automation
By The Wall Street Journal Published on July 11, 2024 Kernel, a New York City startup from Chipotle Mexican Grill founder Steve Ells, uses a robotic arm to flip plant-based burger patties and a conveyor belt to move dishes along the assembly line. Humans put on the finishing touches and package the meals for […]