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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The robot built by [Yuntao Ma and his team at ETH Zurich] was called ANYmal and resembled a miniature giraffe that plays badminton by holding a racket in its teeth. It was a quadruped platform deve…
Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots that could eventually replace hundreds of thousands of delivery workers, [non-paywalled source] The Information reports. The company is building a “humanoid park” obstacle course at its San Francisco of…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from SiliconANGLE: Hugging Face has open-sourced the blueprints of two internally developed robots called HopeJR and Reachy Mini. The company debuted the machines on Thursday. Hugging Face is backed by more than $390…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: Advanced robots don’t necessarily need to look like C3PO from “Star Wars” or George Jetson’s maid Rosie, despite all the hype over humanoids from Wall Street and Big Tech. In fact, some of the biggest ske…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A student’s robot has beaten the world record for solving a four-by-four Rubik’s cube — by 33 seconds. Matthew Pidden, a 22-year-old University of Bristol student, built and trained the “Revenger” over…
A team of scientists at the Research and Development Establishment (Engineers) [R&DE(E)], a premier DRDO laboratory in Pune, is spearheading the development of a humanoid robot tailored for defence applications, with a focus on reducing the exposure of soldiers to life-threatening scenarios during high-risk military operations. This initiative represents a significant step in India’s efforts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: There’s a new warehouse robot at Amazon that has a sense of touch, allowing it to handle a job previously only done by humans. Amazon unveiled the robot, called Vulcan, Wednesday at an event in Germany. CN…
Hyundai Motor Group is accelerating its factory automation efforts by deploying Atlas humanoid robots from Boston Dynamics at its Metaplant America facility in Georgia, as part of a broader $21 billion U.S. investment strategy to boost efficiency and l…
“When Disneyland turns 70 this July, Main Street’s Opera House will play host to the return of Walt Disney, who will sit down with audiences to tell his story in robot form,” writes Gizmodo.
But they point out Walt’s granddaughter Johanna Miller wrot…
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares an article from Renewables Now: Chinese tech company Leapting has successfully completed its first commercial deployment of photovoltaic (PV) modules with an AI-driven solar module mounting robot in Australia. T…