The demand for enhanced security measures has prompted an increasing number of sectors to turn to autonomous security robots to bolster public safety. From schools to police departments in major …
The UN holds a robot press conference about the state of AI
At the AI for Good 2023 global summit, a panel of robots and their creators sat in front of the press to answer journalists’ questions on topics such as job automation, artificial intelligence (AI) …
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Amazon’s New Robots Are Rolling Out an Automation Revolution
In a giant warehouse in Reading, Massachusetts, I meet a pair of robots that look like goofy green footstools from the future. Their round eyes and satisfied grins are rendered with light emitting …
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The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons
The Pentagon has been conducting a series of experiments in which artificial intelligence is the main driving force behind weapons' performance. Last August, the military conducted a test with drones …
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Army Explores Equipping Robots with Living Muscle Tissue
Army Research Laboratory scientists are conducting research into new biohybrid robotics that would eventually fuse organic tissue with machines. The experiments and studies are high-risk attempts at …
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Naval Hospitals Deploy Germ-Killing Robots Amid Pandemic
A US military treatment facility in Bremerton, Washington, is deploying a futuristic fleet of germ-killing ultraviolet robots to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The Defense Department's …
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The Future of Enterprise Robotics
Examples of robots and the use of robotics in business are all around us today. Their success in manufacturing and in assisting humans in critical missions has already been demonstrated as …
How an Autonomous Self-Assembling Space Robot Could Transform NASA’s Future Missions
In collaboration with Made in Space, NASA is working on a revolutionary new spacecraft called Archinaut One that will include an extended-structure 3D printer and a robotic arm. Together, these …
Unpiloted Soyuz Capsule With Humanoid Robot On Board Finally Reaches Space Station
On Tuesday, an unpiloted Russia Soyuz spacecraft successfully docked at the International Space Station. A previous attempt at this unprecedented feat failed on Saturday, but "the second time was the …
Robots dismantle and neutralize 100,000 mustard agent chemical weapons
While some areas of mechanization are challenged by workers and others, the sector of chemical weapons destruction has been happily transitioned to robots. Recently, a destruction plant for chemical …
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