Why billion-dollar robotics startups are obsessed with folding laundry

Sunday Robotics, Weave, and 1X are all starting with the same core task: laundry. Here's why it has become their favorite ...
Times Union

Teachers union blasts use of AI-powered classroom robot

Update: The project was paused Friday after objections from the state Education Department. ALBANY — Sally, the newest teacher’s assistant in the Salamanca School District, has an oval face and ...

I use Anthropic's Claude AI tools for very different jobs: How to pick between models, Code, and Cowork

Here's how Anthropic's AI tools work, what they can accomplish, and why security, cost, and your oversight still matter.
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State union blasts school’s plan to use classroom robot

The state’s largest teacher union is blasting a plan by a Western New York school district to use a classroom robot. The Salamanca City Central School District announced on its website that it is ...
Columbus Dispatch

Columbus area Kroger stores launch robot program for stocking items

Kroger is testing inventory-monitoring robots in its central Ohio stores. The robots, named "Tally" and "Barney," scan shelves to identify out-of-stock items. Kroger states the technology aims to free ...
The Washington Post

Armed robots are on the horizon, as Silicon Valley pitches new military tech

Looking for his next business, San Francisco entrepreneur Sankaet Pathak sought an idea that might change the future. He settled on building humanlike robots with weapons. In May, his company, ...
Newsweek

XPENG’s Human-Like Robot Has Electronic Skin, Bionic Spine

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. XPENG’s next-generation IRON robot is especially human-like. The 5-foot ...
The Verge

Boston Dynamics tries using ‘robot dogs’ for deliveries

Can a $74,500 Spot robot find your front door? Can a $74,500 Spot robot find your front door? is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has ...
Gizmodo

Humanoid Robots Just Performed Surgery Using Standard Medical Tools

Two human-like robots just used regular surgical instruments and their bare android hands to competently operate on a living animal for the first time. Reading time 3 minutes Two remotely operated ...
The New York Times

New Winged Robot Can Fly and Swim Like a Puffin

Inspired by the physical feats of diving birds, researchers have created a robot that can plunge into the water and flap back into the air. By K. R. Callaway With a flap of its wings, something ...
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North Carolina A&T researchers use robot dog to assess plant health

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A team of researchers at North Carolina A&T State University are developing a new tool that could help farmers. It’s a robot dog that uses artificial intelligence to detect plant ...