Jul 25, 2024 | Featured, Robots, Work
Tesla boss Elon Musk says the electric car maker will start producing and using humanoid robots from next year. In a social media post, Mr Musk said the robots will first be used by Tesla, which will start making them to sell in 2026. The announcement came as the...
Jul 17, 2024 | Robots, Space
Various forms of hopping robots have crept into development for use in different space exploration missions. We’ve reported on their use on asteroids and even our own moon. But a study funded by NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) in 2018 planned...
Jul 17, 2024 | Auto Industry, Featured, Robots
Robotics startup company Figure released a video last week showing its 01 humanoid robot being trained to do tasks on the factory floor at a BMW car plant. The video shows the 01 moving multiple components onto a jig, with placement tolerances the company...
Jul 17, 2024 | Featured, Robots
Skild AI launched out of stealth mode Tuesday by announcing a $300 million funding round led by Jeff Bezos’ fund and Japan’s Softbank Group that will help the Pittsburgh-based startup build what it calls a “general-purpose brain” for a variety of robots. The company,...
Jul 17, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Robots
Haystack Robotics, a Portland, Ore.-based startup developing robotics technology for disinfection use cases, has raised $2.7 million from an investment entity associated with healthcare IT company Agadia Systems. Haystack’s robots roam around a room and use UV-C...
Jul 11, 2024 | Healthcare, Robots
A south-west London pupil with cancer is being helped to keep up with school lessons by an interactive robot. Howard’s school attendance had dropped below 50% after he started intensive weekly chemotherapy in January, following his diagnosis of a rare kind of...
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