Slashdot Items Tagged "robots"

Date / Time Story
Tuesday April 16, 2024 @10:48AM Boston Dynamics Retires Its Hydraulic Humanoid Robot
Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:50PM 'Student Should Have a Healthy-Looking BMI': How Universities Bend Over Backwards To Accommodate Food Delivery Robots
Thursday December 21, 2023 @06:07PM Massachusetts Lawmakers Mull 'Killer Robot' Bill
Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:31PM College Warns To 'Avoid All Robots' After Bomb Threat Involving Food Delivery Robots
Wednesday October 18, 2023 @02:36PM Amazon Tests Humanoid Robot in Warehouse Automation Push
Monday September 25, 2023 @04:40PM Tesla Bot Can Now Sort Objects Autonomously
Monday July 03, 2023 @04:47AM Robot Takes Podium as Orchestra Conductor in South Korea
Friday February 24, 2023 @12:27PM Google Parent Alphabet Shuts Down Yet Another Robot Project
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:02AM Rehabilitation Robots Market is estimated to be US$ 5,591.9 billion
Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:40AM Get Distribution Center Robots with GreyOrange
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @05:55AM How Collaborative Industrial Robots Work?
Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:53PM Uber Eats Launches Robot Delivery Service in Miami
Wednesday December 07, 2022 @02:49PM San Francisco Halts 'Killer Robots' Police Policy Following Backlash
Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:05PM San Francisco Supervisors Vote To Allow Police To Use Robots To Kill
Saturday October 22, 2022 @04:28PM The Difficulty of Creating a Laundry-folding Robot
Monday October 17, 2022 @12:56PM FedEx Abandons Its Last-Mile Delivery Robot Program
Friday October 07, 2022 @09:25AM Amazon Abandons Home Delivery Robot Tests in Latest Cost Cuts
Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:22PM Boston Dynamics Pledges Not To Weaponize Its Robots
Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:08AM Robots Are Making French Fries Faster, Better Than Humans
Monday October 03, 2022 @09:35AM Walgreens Turns To Prescription-Filling Robots To Free Up Pharmacists
Friday September 30, 2022 @01:18PM Musk Widely Expected To Unveil Humanoid Robot Optimus at Tesla's AI Day Later Today
Monday September 19, 2022 @12:44PM China's Factories Accelerate Robotics Push as Workforce Shrinks
Friday August 05, 2022 @10:38AM Amazon is Buying iRobot For $1.7 Billion
Sunday July 24, 2022 @03:58PM AI Gone Wrong? Chess Robot Breaks Child's Finger at Russia Tournament
Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:52PM Scientists Unveil Bionic Robo-fish To Remove Microplastics From Seas
Monday June 06, 2022 @11:21AM Fearing Lawsuits, Factories Rush To Replace Humans With Robots in South Korea
Wednesday May 25, 2022 @12:35PM NY State is Giving Out Hundreds of Robots as Companions For the Elderly
Friday May 06, 2022 @06:58PM Swarming Drones Autonomously Navigate a Dense Forest
Saturday April 02, 2022 @12:22AM This Snakelike Robot Slithers Down Your Lungs and Could Spot Cancer
Tuesday March 01, 2022 @04:06PM Lawmakers Express 'Extreme Concern' Over Border Robot Dog Plan
Tuesday February 22, 2022 @01:43PM Amazon's Astro Home Robot Remains Elusive Six Months After Debut
Monday February 21, 2022 @03:10PM White Castle To Hire 100 Robots To Flip Burgers
Wednesday February 16, 2022 @11:01AM South Korea To Allow Delivery Robots on Public Roads in 2023
Friday December 03, 2021 @06:56PM A New Humanoid Robot Has the Most Advanced and Realistic Facial Expressions Yet
Monday November 29, 2021 @03:45PM 'Cyber Grinches' Snatching Toys Should Be Stopped, Lawmakers Say
Friday October 15, 2021 @03:37PM They're Putting Guns on Robot Dogs Now
Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:47AM Robots Take Over Italy's Vineyards as Wineries Struggle With Covid-19 Worker Shortages
Monday September 13, 2021 @12:23AM Singapore Police Deploy Snitch Bots To Test Searching for 'Undesirable Social Behaviors'
Sunday September 05, 2021 @12:17PM The 'Dead Internet' Theory Posits Forums are Now Almost Entirely Overrun By AI
Monday August 02, 2021 @02:53PM With Undersea Robots, an Air Force Navigator Lost Since 1967 Is Found
Thursday July 15, 2021 @12:10PM Humanoid Robot Keeps Getting Fired From His Jobs
Monday July 12, 2021 @03:37PM Stumble-proof Robot Adapts To Challenging Terrain in Real Time
Wednesday July 07, 2021 @01:35PM Grubhub Will Use Russian-made Robots To Deliver Food on College Campuses
Sunday June 06, 2021 @09:18PM Instacart Bets on Robots To Shrink Ranks of 500,000 Gig Shoppers
Friday April 30, 2021 @01:46PM New York Returns Its Police 'Robodog' After a Public Outcry
Wednesday April 14, 2021 @05:02PM Korean Workers Need To Make Space For Robots, Minister Says
Monday March 29, 2021 @08:29AM Boston Dynamics' New Robot Doesn't Dance. It Has a Warehouse Job
Wednesday March 17, 2021 @02:00PM New Soba Noodle-Making Robot at Japan Train Station Eatery Can Cook 150 Servings an Hour
Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:48PM See Boston Dynamics' Robots Bust Freakishly Good Moves On the Dance Floor
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:12PM Swimming Robot Reaches Australia After Record-Breaking Trip
Sunday December 27, 2020 @06:57PM 2-Acre Vertical Farm Run By AI and Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm
Sunday November 08, 2020 @09:32PM As UK Military Begins Mass Coronavirus Testing, Head of Armed Forces Ponders Robot Soldiers
Monday September 14, 2020 @03:16PM Pandemic May Permanently Replace Some Human Jobs With Machines
Monday July 06, 2020 @04:40PM PlayStation's Secret Weapon: A Nearly All-Automated Factory
Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:02PM Dogs Obey Commands Given by Social Robots
Monday March 23, 2020 @05:55PM If Robots Steal So Many Jobs, Why Aren't They Saving Us Now?
Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:29PM Facebook Has Built a Fleet of Robots To Patrol Its Data Centers
Friday February 28, 2020 @05:37PM When AI Can't Replace a Worker, It Watches Them Instead
Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:09PM Japanese Robot Could Call Last Orders on Human Bartenders
Friday January 24, 2020 @03:39PM Spot the Robot Dog Trots Into the Big, Bad World
Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:40PM Welcome To Walmart. The Robot Will Grab Your Groceries.
Friday January 03, 2020 @03:51PM Sony's Robot Dogs Are Helping Japanese People Find Companionship
Saturday December 28, 2019 @12:53AM Fast Retailing, the World's Third-Largest Retailer, Says It's Cracked the Final Barrier To Full Automation
Wednesday December 25, 2019 @05:27AM Uniqlo's Tokyo Warehouse is 90% Robotic
Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:33PM Amazon Proposes a Home Robot that Asks You Questions When It's Confused
Monday November 25, 2019 @04:10PM Ask Slashdot: When Robots Are Ultra-Lifelike Will It Be Murder To Switch One Off?
Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:45PM Boston Dynamics CEO on the Company's Top 3 Robots, AI, and Viral Videos
Tuesday November 12, 2019 @02:05PM American Robots Lose Jobs To Asian Robots as Adidas Shifts Manufacturing
Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:13PM Worker Pay is Stagnant -- Economists Blame Robots
Friday August 30, 2019 @12:12PM Robot Pilot That Can Grab the Flight Controls Gets Its Plane Licence
Tuesday July 30, 2019 @12:47PM Now Calling Balls and Strikes: Robot Umpires
Sunday July 28, 2019 @12:11PM Can Robots Solve America's Recycling Crisis?
Tuesday June 25, 2019 @06:25PM Robots To Take 20 Million Jobs, Worsening Inequality, Study Finds
Friday May 31, 2019 @03:25PM 'Robots' Are Not 'Coming For Your Job' -- Management Is
Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:51AM Who To Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune
Monday May 13, 2019 @09:41AM Amazon is Rolling Out Machines To Automate Boxing Up Customer Orders
Wednesday May 01, 2019 @03:25PM Amazon Dismisses Idea Automation Will Eliminate All Its Warehouse Jobs Soon
Monday April 29, 2019 @06:06PM Robotics Startup Anki Shuts Down After Burning Through Almost $200 Million
Friday April 12, 2019 @02:13PM A Robot Has Figured Out How To Use Tools
Saturday March 30, 2019 @09:38PM Can Marc Andreessen Stop Technology From Eating Our Jobs?
Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:30PM GITAI Partners With JAXA To Send Telepresence Robots To Space
Monday March 25, 2019 @12:09PM Number of Workers in Jobs That Can Be Automated Falls
Saturday March 16, 2019 @02:09PM Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation
Monday March 11, 2019 @04:17PM US Seeks To Allay Fears Over Killer Robots
Wednesday March 06, 2019 @09:59AM Jibo, the $899 'Social Robot', Tells Owners in Farewell Address That Its VC Overlords Have Remote-Killswitched It
Thursday February 28, 2019 @03:51PM US Companies Put Record Number of Robots To Work in 2018
Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:53PM FedEx Turns To Segway Inventor To Build Delivery Robot
Wednesday January 30, 2019 @12:17PM iRobot Unveils Terra, a Roomba Lawn Mower
Friday January 18, 2019 @01:27PM Berkeley's Two-Armed Robot Hints at a New Future For Warehouses
Thursday January 10, 2019 @09:42AM So You Automated Your Coworkers Out of a Job
Friday January 04, 2019 @02:00PM Robots Are Taking Some Jobs, But Not All: World Bank
Tuesday January 01, 2019 @12:43PM Australian Autonomous Train is Being Called The 'World's Largest Robot'
Tuesday December 25, 2018 @02:09PM A Christmas Menu Dreamed Up by a Robot
Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:12PM This Was the Year the Robot Takeover of Service Jobs Began
Friday November 30, 2018 @10:50PM DHL To Invest $300 Million To Quadruple Robots In Warehouses In 2019
Tuesday November 13, 2018 @04:45PM The British Army is Carrying Out a Massive Test of Military Robots and Drones
Wednesday November 07, 2018 @08:33PM China's Brightest Children Are Being Recruited To Develop AI 'Killer Bots'
Sunday October 28, 2018 @06:00PM In a Crash, Should Self-Driving Cars Save Passengers or Pedestrians? 2 Million People Weigh In
Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:24PM Automation is Democratizing Experimental Science
Thursday October 11, 2018 @04:06PM Boston Dynamics' Robot Went From a Drunk Baby To a Nimble Ninja in a Matter of Years
Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:55PM Automated Warehouse In Tokyo Managed To Replace 90 Percent of Its Staff With Robots
Friday October 05, 2018 @08:32AM Robot Pioneer Rethink Shuts Down
Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:39PM Robot Lawnmowers Are Killing Hedgehogs
Thursday September 20, 2018 @04:37PM In a World of Robots, Carmakers Persist in Hiring More Humans
Monday September 17, 2018 @10:48AM Machines Are Going To Perform More Tasks Than Humans By 2025
Sunday September 16, 2018 @10:41AM Automation: The Exaggerated Threat of Robots
Thursday September 06, 2018 @01:19PM Robot Boat Sails Into History By Finishing Atlantic Crossing
Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:06PM How Telepresence Robots Are Combating the Debilitating Effects of Isolation and Loneliness
Friday August 17, 2018 @03:13PM Baseball Players Want Robots To Be Their Umps
Wednesday August 15, 2018 @02:35PM Children 'At Risk of Robot Influence'
Monday July 30, 2018 @05:17PM Human Bankers Are Losing To Robots as Nordea Sets a New Standard
Sunday July 22, 2018 @12:22PM Boston Dynamics Is Gearing Up To Produce Thousands of Robot Dogs
Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:34PM Killer Robots Would Be 'Dangerously Destabilizing' Force in the World, Tech Leaders Warn
Tuesday July 10, 2018 @07:29PM Autonomous Robots Could be the Future of High Flying Stunts in Hollywood
Sunday July 08, 2018 @06:28PM Surgical Robots Cut Training Time Down From 80 Sessions To 30 Minutes
Sunday July 08, 2018 @03:59PM Some Startups Have Worked Out It's Cheaper and Easier To Get Humans To Behave Like Robots Than it is To Get Machines To Behave Like Humans
Monday July 02, 2018 @06:06PM Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation
Tuesday June 19, 2018 @10:54AM New IBM Robot Holds Its Own In a Debate With a Human
Thursday June 14, 2018 @07:13PM Self-Driving Cars Likely Won't Steal Your Job (Until 2040)
Thursday June 14, 2018 @06:38AM Microsoft is Working on Technology That Would Eliminate Cashiers and Checkout Lines From Stores, Says Report
Monday June 04, 2018 @12:25PM Humans Are Still Crucial To Amazon's Fulfillment Process
Friday May 25, 2018 @11:36AM Robot Worries Could Cause a 50,000-Worker Strike in Las Vegas
Friday May 18, 2018 @09:57PM Ask Slashdot: Could Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics Ensure Safe AI?
Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:21PM The Boston Restaurant Where Robots Have Replaced the Chefs
Friday April 27, 2018 @02:15PM The Auto Plants of the Future May Have a Surprisingly Human Touch
Thursday April 26, 2018 @02:03PM Robot-Launched Weather Balloons in Alaska Hasten Demise of Remote Stations
Monday April 23, 2018 @12:09PM Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots
Wednesday April 18, 2018 @03:19PM Robots Ride To the Rescue Where Workers Can't Be Found
Sunday April 15, 2018 @02:43PM Europe Divided Over Robot 'Personhood'
Friday April 13, 2018 @04:27PM Tesla Relied On Too Many Robots To Build the Model 3, Elon Musk Says
Wednesday April 11, 2018 @03:41PM How Will Automation Affect Different US Cities?
Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:50PM Robots Are Trying To Pick Strawberries. So Far, They're Not Very Good At It
Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:47PM African Manufacturing Jobs Could be Threatened by US Based Robots, Report Says
Monday March 19, 2018 @12:18PM FedEx Embraces More Robots Without Firing Humans
Tuesday February 13, 2018 @02:41PM Countries that Are Most Highly Invested in Automation
Wednesday February 07, 2018 @02:06PM 'Humans Not Invited' Is a CAPTCHA Test That Welcomes Bots, Filters Out Humans
Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:53PM Japan Wants To Increase Acceptance of Technology That Could Help Fill the Gap in the Nursing Workforce
Tuesday January 30, 2018 @02:10PM Robot Delivery Vans Are Arriving Before Self-Driving Cars
Tuesday January 30, 2018 @01:11PM The Next Time You Order Room Service, It May Come by Robot
Friday January 26, 2018 @03:30PM Bill Gates Thinks AI Taking Everyone's Jobs Could be a Good Thing
Friday January 26, 2018 @09:11AM Ford Has An Idea For An Autonomous Police Car That Could Find A Hiding Spot
Tuesday January 23, 2018 @01:03PM French Train Engineering Giant Alstom Testing Automated Freight Train
Wednesday January 17, 2018 @11:34AM Within Next Five Years Your Pizzas Will Probably Be Delivered by Autonomous Cars, Domino's Pizza CEO Says
Tuesday January 16, 2018 @10:53AM Now Hiring For a Fascinating New Kind of Job That Only a Human Can Do: Babysit a Robot
Friday January 12, 2018 @01:53PM Apparently, People Say 'Thank You' To Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Vehicles
Friday January 05, 2018 @04:09PM Ford is Giving Its Factory Workers Robot Exo-suits To Ease To Burden of Building Cars
Thursday December 07, 2017 @12:39PM San Francisco To Restrict Goods Delivery Robots
Thursday November 23, 2017 @01:23PM Google's Eric Schmidt Says People Want Dish-Washing Robots To Clean Up the Kitchen More Than Any Other Kind
Tuesday November 07, 2017 @02:15PM Andrew Ng Wants a New 'New Deal' To Combat Job Automation
Wednesday November 01, 2017 @12:23PM Rise of the Machines Must Be Monitored, Say Global Finance Regulators
Thursday October 26, 2017 @12:49PM Saudi Arabia Becomes First Nation To Grant Citizenship To Humanoid Robot
Saturday October 21, 2017 @04:37PM See Giant Robots Fight. US vs Japan Match On YouTube
Thursday October 12, 2017 @02:26PM We're Too Wise For Robots To Take Our Jobs, Alibaba's Jack Ma Says
Tuesday September 19, 2017 @03:57PM Google's AI Boss Blasts Musk's Scare Tactics on Machine Takeover
Thursday September 14, 2017 @04:33PM You Are Already Living Inside a Computer
Tuesday September 05, 2017 @03:59PM Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse
Tuesday July 04, 2017 @10:03PM 'Call For a Ban On Child Sex Robots'
Wednesday June 21, 2017 @03:17PM Just 14 People Make 500,000 Tons of Steel a Year in Austria
Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:40AM Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week
Friday June 16, 2017 @11:47AM Amazon Says It Won't Replace Whole Foods Cashiers With Computers... Yet
Friday June 09, 2017 @10:41AM Google Has Finally Found a Buyer For Its Scary Robot Companies Boston Dynamics and Schaft: SoftBank
Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:21PM Consumers Trust Robots For Surgery Over Savings, Research Finds
Monday May 22, 2017 @04:37PM Self-Driving Cars Could Cost America's Professional Drivers Up To 25,000 Jobs a Month
Friday April 14, 2017 @03:48PM A New Survey Shows Consumers Are Not That Freaked Out By Tech
Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:06AM Japan Automakers Look To Robots To Keep Elderly On the Move
Saturday April 01, 2017 @12:12AM Fear of Robots Taking Jobs in the Short Term is Overblown, Says General Electric CEO
Tuesday March 28, 2017 @11:32AM Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs
Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:35PM Who's Liable For Decisions AI and Robotics Make?
Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:13PM BMW Says Self-Driving Car To Be Level 5 Capable In Five Years
Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:29PM If American Robots Had Their Own Economy, It'd Be Bigger Than Switzerland
Saturday March 11, 2017 @09:56PM Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax
Tuesday March 07, 2017 @09:14AM Robots in Warehouses To Jump 15X Over Next 4 Years
Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:16AM Skin deep? Robots To Wear Real Human Tissue
Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:00AM 'Robots Won't Just Take Our Jobs -- They'll Make the Rich Even Richer'
Monday February 27, 2017 @11:05AM Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO
Friday February 24, 2017 @02:19PM Americans Believe Robots Will Take Everyone Else's Job, But Theirs Will Be Safe, Study Says
Friday February 17, 2017 @05:08PM Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes
Monday February 13, 2017 @11:46AM Elon Musk: Humans Need To Merge With Machines Else They Will Become Irrelevant in AI Age
Monday February 06, 2017 @06:36PM 'We Need Robots To Take Our Jobs,' Veteran Tech Reporter John Markoff Explains Why
Monday February 06, 2017 @09:00AM Are Robots Coming To Take Investor Jobs on Wall Street?
Sunday February 05, 2017 @03:19PM Are Gates, Musk Being 'Too Aggressive' With AI Concerns?
Friday January 13, 2017 @10:57AM Half the Work People Do Can Be Automated, Says McKinsey
Wednesday January 04, 2017 @03:30PM Amazon's Robot Workforce Grows By 50 Percent In Just One Year
Monday January 02, 2017 @10:03AM Japanese White-Collar Workers Are Already Being Replaced by Artificial Intelligence
Friday December 30, 2016 @02:14PM Foxconn Boosting Automated Production in China
Tuesday December 27, 2016 @09:17AM Humans Marrying Robots? Experts Say It's Really Coming
Wednesday December 21, 2016 @01:26AM White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots
Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:15PM Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers
Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:47PM AI Will Disrupt How Developers Build Applications and the Nature of the Applications they Build
Monday December 05, 2016 @12:19PM Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant
Tuesday October 25, 2016 @11:04AM Uber's Self-Driving Truck Went on a 120-Mile Beer Run To Make History
Monday October 17, 2016 @04:36PM Slashdot Asks: Do We Need To Plan For a Future Without Jobs And Should We Resort To Universal Basic Income?
Saturday October 08, 2016 @09:13PM When Her Best Friend Died, She Rebuilt Him Using Artificial Intelligence
Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:38PM Google Canceled the Launch of a Robotic Arm After it Failed the 'Toothbrush Test'
Wednesday September 14, 2016 @10:43AM Uber Starts Self Driving Car Pickups In Pittsburgh
Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:35PM Alphabet Partners With Chipotle To Deliver Burritos Using Drones
Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:34PM An Algorithm May Soon Cover Your Local Sports Team
Tuesday September 06, 2016 @10:31AM Pentagon Chiefs Fear Advanced Robot Weapons Wiping Out Humanity
Friday August 26, 2016 @10:28AM Robot Babies Not Effective Birth Control, Australian Study Finds
Friday August 19, 2016 @03:16PM 'We're Just Rentals': Uber Drivers Ask Where They Fit In a Self-Driving Future