Screenshot from Youtube video below. The newest employee at a Tokyo 7-Eleven works through the night without a single break. It silently stocks drinks and other products with mechanical precision, and ...

Social robots show promise in supporting both people with intellectual disabilities and their health care professionals; yet, few are fully developed and embedded in productive care environments.

X Square Robot has secured its eighth funding round worth $100 million, led by Alibaba Cloud and CAS Investment. The Chinese humanoid firm also released an open-source foundation model for embodied AI ...

A team of scientists from China and the U.S. is pioneering the development of bubble-powered robots, which could one day replace needles for painless drug delivery into the body. Inspired by nature, ...

Abstract: Victims of fire events may suffer property damage as well as fatalities. A fireman must safely put out a fire in order to avoid damage and loss. A firefighter's life is in danger while doing ...

A ball-catching robot tennis coach, cuddly AI robots, and a laptop with a rotating screen for optimal doomscrolling. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ...

The city of Irvine, California is deploying robots to assess its sidewalk and trail network and identify accessibility issues, reports Hanna Kang in The Orange County Register. According to Kang, ...

A new open-source bipedal robot, dubbed MEVITA, has been designed by engineers at the JSK Robotics Laboratory of the University of Tokyo, Japan. Interestingly, MEVITA aims to tackle the common issues ...

Abstract: Visual inspection of confined spaces such as aircraft wings is ergonomically challenging for human mechanics. This work presents a novel crane robot that can travel the entire span of the ...

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