Robotics

  A useful general home robot, as far as I’m concerned, needs to be able to do three things: fold laundry, wash dishes, and clean toilets. That’s…

  When a patient who needs an organ transplantation is finally matched with a donor, every second matters. A longer wait between when an organ is…

Stanford engineers have developed an electronic glove containing sensors that could one day give robotic hands the sort of dexterity that humans take…

  LG Electronics will co-develop a smart cart for use in South Korean supermarket chain E-mart, the company has announced. The goal is to offer a…

  Lenovo has opened an unmanned convenience store in China, using it as a testbed for trialling facial-recognition, e-payment, Internet of Things…

  Amazon’s kicking off Re:Invent week with the launch of AWS RoboMaker. The cloud-based service utilizes the widely deployed open source software…

The closure of Rethink Robotics, which shut down last month after an unexpected announcement that hinted at dismal financial footing, sent shockwaves…

Zume, the robotics and logistics company that got its start slinging pizza, just raised $375 million from SoftBank, the WSJ first reported. Another…

Google’s parent company Alphabet has confirmed the closure of Schaft, a research unit which developed bipedal robots. As first reported by Japanese…

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