Robots no more science fiction in real life

1 day, 23 hours ago

CES 2025: What lies ahead in tech this year

By now, it is perhaps no surprise that 2025 is the year when pretty much every single piece of consumer technology will get generous dollops of artificial intelligence infusion of some kind. Their ranges of AI TVs at CES 2025 include Samsung’s ‘Vision AI’ suite on its Neo QLED 8K televisions, while LG’s latest OLED ‘evo’ models will feature generative …

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2 days, 23 hours ago

The 10 Coolest Things We’ve Seen So Far at CES 2025

Wired

Shortly after his mom was diagnosed with dementia, Tom Stevens made the difficult decision to take away her dog, as she could no longer care for him. That’s when he created TomBot and, a few years later, Jennie, a robot emotional lap dog. TomBot has been running customer trials for several years, iterating on its robot dogs, but it will …

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1 week ago

Opinion: If your phone had feelings would you treat it differently? It could happen sooner than you think

LA Times

Whether it’s the virtual assistants in our phones, the chatbots providing customer service for banks and clothing stores, or tools like ChatGPT and Claude making workloads a little lighter, artificial intelligence has quickly become part of our daily lives. Eleos AI, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the possibilities of AI sentience — or the capacity to feel — and …

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1 week, 1 day ago

AI robots are entering the public world—with mixed results

Live Mint

Robots are stepping out. “Some things which are very easy for people are very hard for robots," said David Pinn, chief executive of Brain Corp, which provides software for automated floor-cleaning and inventory management robots used at retailers like Sam’s Club. Robots that will operate in human spaces will need better dexterity and the ability to circumvent obstacles—both areas that …

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55 years ago

Micropsi Industries is making industrial robots more ‘human’

CNN

CNN — One of the original stereotypes about robots is that their movements are stiff and abrupt, something that endures in the “robot dance” that first became popular in the 1980s. “We make a control system that allows industrial robots to do things that without our software they couldn’t do,” says Ronnie Vuine, Micropsi’s founder, “which is essentially having hand-eye …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

The AI robots on their way will mostly be made in Asia

Live Mint

Over the past year, I’ve noticed an overwhelming theme emerge when Asian tech leaders look at what comes next for artificial intelligence. The experience I’ve had tuning in to many executive chats and tech conferences could best be summed by Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang’s proclamation in Taipei in June. While the US is the leader in AI advances—and …

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1 month ago

A robot was found ‘dead’ at work – and no one knows why

The Independent

Was it a misstep or a deliberate act of self-destruction? open image in gallery Proteus, Amazon’s first fully automated mobile robot, has been allowed to roam in areas of the factory it wasn’t previously allowed While the robot’s manufacturer said it was an ordinary malfunction, the clip gained millions of views as people speculated over whether it was, in fact, …

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1 month ago

A robot was found ‘dead’ at work – and no one knows why

The Independent

Was it a misstep or a deliberate act of self-destruction? The debate that arose in South Korea following the robot worker’s demise centred on the integration of AI and machines into human workplaces, and whether they should be given similar rights as their flesh-and-blood colleagues. open image in gallery Proteus, Amazon’s first fully automated mobile robot, has been allowed to …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Seeing Silicon: Robo cops are here. Do you trust them?

Hindustan Times

The other day, I was taking a post-dinner walk around the neighbourhood when I bumped into two security robots. A few moments later, the security robot turned away from me, whirring from one corner to the other, doing its rounds around the perimeter of the building. The autonomous security robot I had encountered on my night walk, as I later …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Universal Robots expands production in nation for growth opportunities

China Daily

Universal Robots expands production in nation for growth opportunities By WANG YING in Shanghai China Daily Updated: Nov 28, 2024 Universal Robots' booth during a high-tech expo in Nanjing, Jiangsu province in December. WANG LUXIAN/FOR CHINA DAILY Universal Robots, a Denmark-based collaborative robot manufacturer, announced on Tuesday that it has expanded manufacturing capabilities to China, a move designed to better …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

South Korea becomes first country to fill 10% of workforce with robots

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy South Korea has become the first country in the world to replace more …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

In ‘The Wild Robot,’ machines, animals and new technology paint a very human picture

LA Times

As our collective nervousness over AI grows each day, “The Wild Robot” emerges from the woods with a completely different take on a man-made being with the ability to learn. “It’s just so pure and sweet and needed.” In the DreamWorks animated feature, a domestic helper robot, a ROZZUM 7134, is lost on a wooded island and activated without human …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Mint Primer: Your life may be in the hands of an AI surgeon soon

Live Mint

Having learnt from videos, a da Vinci robot has been replicating surgical procedures like using a needle and suturing. Robots may be a step closer to performing complex surgeries independently—but will humans trust autonomous AI surgeons? Da Vinci robots, for instance, come equipped with robotic arms to hold surgical tools, cameras for vision and consoles controlled by human surgeons. Researchers …

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55 years ago

This Is a Glimpse of the Future of AI Robots

Wired

The idea of a robot that does a wide range of household chores, from unloading the dryer to folding laundry to cleaning up a messy table, has long seemed like pure science fiction—perhaps most famously embodied by the 1960s fantasy that was Rosey in The Jetsons. Physical Intelligence, a startup in San Francisco, has shown that such a dream might …

Ai Physical Intelligence

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Rise of the killer robots: Experts reveal just how close we are to a Terminator-style takeover

Daily Mail

It's been exactly 40 years since The Terminator hit the big screen, shocking cinemagoers with its terrifying depiction of a post-apocalyptic future. In James Cameron's epic sci-fi blockbuster - which arrived in US cinemas on Friday, October 26, 1984 - Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as the eponymous robotic assassin In the classic film, the Terminator's objective is simple – to kill …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Robot's Heart: A Journey of Love and Survival

New Indian Express

The Wild Robot is a heartwarming and thought-provoking film about the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit. The movie explores the most primitive motive of any being on Earth: survival, and how animals of all kinds and humans have learned to adapt to the most grueling forces of nature and the reality of existence. The film …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Wild Robot review: DreamWorks’s Studio Ghibli homage will leave you a blubbering mess

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Their adaptation of Peter Brown’s 2016 novel The Wild Robot is …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

‘My Robots’: Sci-fi director looks at Elon Musk’s Cybercab and Optimus and detects a copy cat

LA Times

Tesla’s Robovan may operate autonomously, but according to one sci-fi director, Elon Musk doesn’t. “I, Robot” director Alex Proyas mocked Musk for the alleged rip-off in a Sunday X post, comparing images from his 2004 film and a trio of new Tesla products side by side. The products were unveiled at last week’s “We, Robot” event — whose title clearly …

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3 months, 1 week ago

The Wild Robot: The best animated movie of the year is here.

Slate

From the very first scene of The Wild Robot, the new animated movie from director Chris Sanders, adapted from the first in a trilogy of children’s novels by Peter Brown, the viewer is plunged along with the protagonist into a new and alien world. Related From Slate Netflix’s Star-Studded New Movie Is Transcendent Though Roz remains laser focused on her …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Review: Exquisite ‘The Wild Robot’ uses machines and animals to tell a human story

LA Times

“The Wild Robot” has a lot to say and its own way of saying it. It’s a big-studio animated feature that has its own look, feel and identity, wrapped around an unusual story with ample humor and plenty of emotion — all of it earned. In writer-director Chris Sanders’ adaptation of Peter Brown’s books, a shipment of household robots goes …

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4 months ago

China's humanoid robots advance automation

China Daily

Visitors gather around humanoid robots on display during an industry expo in Beijing. LI MUYI/FOR CHINA DAILY In Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang province, Chinese new energy vehicle manufacturer Zeekr, which is part of Geely Holding Group, a prominent automaker, welcomed its first humanoid robot "intern" to its factory recently. At the World Robot Conference held in Beijing in late August, …

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4 months ago

'New revolution' promises to end tedious tasks

China Daily

Your next dish, package or takeout could arrive at your doorstep via a Chinese-made robot, as delivery robots have developed rapidly in the country and are now venturing into overseas markets. Li Tong, founder and CEO of Keenon, attributed the momentum of Chinese robotics companies abroad to opportunities amid COVID-19-related disruptions, when delivery robots greatly eased manpower shortages and reduced …

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4 months ago

China's humanoid robots advance automation

China Daily

Visitors gather around humanoid robots on display during an industry expo in Beijing. LI MUYI/FOR CHINA DAILY In Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang province, Chinese new energy vehicle manufacturer Zeekr, which is part of Geely Holding Group, a prominent automaker, welcomed its first humanoid robot "intern" to its factory recently. At the World Robot Conference held in Beijing in late August, …

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4 months ago

China's humanoid robots advance automation

China Daily

By CHENG YU | China Daily | Updated: 2024-09-09 09:02 Visitors gather around humanoid robots on display during an industry expo in Beijing. LI MUYI/FOR CHINA DAILY In Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang province, Chinese new energy vehicle manufacturer Zeekr, which is part of Geely Holding Group, a prominent automaker, welcomed its first humanoid robot "intern" to its factory recently. Xu …

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4 months ago

China needs more factory robots. Can it build its own?

Live Mint

The abundance of cheap labor was once a reason why seemingly everything is made in China. Being the world’s factory, it is natural that China is by far the largest market for industrial robots. On a per-employee basis, China’s industrial robot penetration still lags behind advanced manufacturing economies such as South Korea, Germany and Japan. And outside of China, the …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Robots are coming to the kitchen − what that could mean for society and culture

Salon

Automating food is unlike automating anything else. Convenience can come at a great cost, so it's vital to look ahead at the possible ethical and social disruptions that emerging technologies might bring, especially for a deeply human and cultural domain – food – that's interwoven throughout daily life. With funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, my team at California …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Innovations make country major player in robot sector

China Daily

A picture taken on Feb 28, 2023 shows the animal-shaped robot powered by ModelArts of Huawei Cloud at the Mobile World Congress. As the 10th session of WRC kicks off on Wednesday, the domestic production of robots for industrial use had risen to 430,000 in 2023, while 7.8 million others were service robots, making China a major player in the …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Books: Sci-Fi novel Annie Bot by Sierra Greer explores human abuse in the present by talking about robots in the future

Slate

Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Sierra Greer: Not really soon, but I don’t think we need to have creatures like Annie to encounter the problems that Annie poses. There are a lot of ways that people, audiences, don’t necessarily overlap, and yet they can come to this novel and sort of …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Let Slip the Robot Dogs of War

Wired

Based on publicly available media in Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, the Pentagon’s media distribution hub, the adoption of robot dogs across the US military didn’t start in earnest until 2020, when the Air Force integrated a handful of Ghost Robotics systems into what’s called an “agile combat employment” exercise at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, which saw airmen …

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7 months ago

‘Robot Dreams’ raids real-life memories for depth. Its director is new to animation

LA Times

“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and staunch champion of animation is raving about “Robot Dreams,” a hand-drawn urban fable that received a surprise Oscar nomination earlier this year. Adult, emotionally, but delightful and whimsical, visually …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Humanoid robots play more roles

China Daily

An employee of JAKA Robotics Co Ltd monitors production at a facility in Shanghai. Chang Li, vice-president of JAKA Robotics Co Ltd, said that the company has developed collaborative robots possessing stronger self-learning abilities, self-decision-making capabilities and human-machine interactions. JAKA Robotics, which specializes in the new generation of collaborative robots and smart factories, has expanded its business into multiple industrial …

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1 year ago

It’s No Wonder People Are Getting Emotionally Attached to Chatbots

Wired

Replika, an AI chatbot companion, has millions of users worldwide, many of whom woke up earlier last year to discover their virtual lover had friend-zoned them overnight. Research in human-computer and human-robot interaction shows that we love to anthropomorphize—attribute humanlike qualities, behaviors, and emotions to—the nonhuman agents we interact with, especially if they mimic cues we recognize. Friend bots, therapy …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Would YOU have sex with a robot? One in three Britons say they'd like to have an intimate relationship with a machine, report reveals

Daily Mail

The idea of having sex with a robot might sound like the plot of the latest science fiction blockbuster. It reveals that a third of Britons have used, would use, or would 'maybe' consider using a sex robot if an affordable option was released. And we're not just talking sex dolls here - sex robots refer to sophisticated devices that …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Death by Robot: Machine confuses man for a box of vegetables, crushes worker in tragic accident

Firstpost

In a tragic accident, a man was crushed by an AI-enabled industrialist robot after it mistook him for a box of vegetables. The incident took place at an agricultural distribution centre where an employee of the robotics company was examining the robot’s sensors In a horrifying turn of events, a South Korean man lost his life after being crushed by …

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1 year, 2 months ago

The Chatbots Are Now Talking to Each Other

Wired

Lena Anderson isn’t a soccer fan, but she does spend a lot of time ferrying her kids between soccer practices and competitive games. Fantasy calls its bots synthetic humans and says they can help clients learn about audiences, think through product concepts, and even generate new ideas, like the soccer app. “We’re already seeing huge value and this is just …

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1 year, 3 months ago

An AI nukes Hollywood in ‘The Creator.’ The movie’s director has thoughts about that

LA Times

It’s tricky enough in today’s IP-obsessed Hollywood to market an ambitious original science-fiction film. For Gareth Edwards, who directed 2014’s “Godzilla” and 2016’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” selling his new sci-fi epic “The Creator” has been a lonely venture. The Times spoke with Edwards about the inspiration behind “The Creator,” how he’s navigating this delicate moment in Hollywood‘s …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Review: In ‘The Creator,’ paranoid androids and a child to save the day — or obliterate us

LA Times

Within the opening moments of “The Creator,” we learn a few things about our future. Unfortunately, there’s precious little in “The Creator” that feels fresh, particularly if you’ve seen one of the first two “Terminator” movies, watched “The Last of Us” or bought your kid a Baby Yoda plush toy. There are other hopeful signs in “The Creator.” After surveying …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Hi, Robot: machines ubiquitous at Asian Games

China Daily

Left: A 'Digital Human Interaction' screen answers queries at the Games' Main Media Centre. HANGZHOU, Zhejiang province — From autonomous bug zappers to android pianists and driverless ice-cream trucks, machines have taken over — at least at China's Asian Games. An automated mosquito trapper roams the vast Games Village, zapping the pests after luring them in by mimicking a human's …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Meet the AI human-like robots that can do our jobs

The Independent

The idea of a humanoid robot that can do the work of human beings dates back almost 3,000 years to the Iliad, in which the god Hephaestus was assisted by his own metal creations. A robotics start-up funded by OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is employing EVE robot devices as security guards in Europe and America – with human operators …

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1 year, 6 months ago

As robots grow in strength, industries integrate them with human workforce

Hindustan Times

Coventry, UK: It is not every day that humans who aren’t developing these systems or using them, get to watch massive industrial robots at work, from close quarters. One of them, the Fanuc M2000iA/2300 robot, which is the largest commercially available industrial robot is prowling the test labs at the Manufacturing Technology Center’s hub in Coventry, UK. In a conversation …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Don’t fear an AI-induced jobs apocalypse just yet

Hindustan Times

“I think we might exceed a one-to-one ratio of humanoid robots to humans,” Elon Musk declared on March 1st. Now even the techno-optimistic Mr Musk wonders what it would mean for robots to outnumber humans: “It’s not even clear what an economy is at that point.” Although Messrs Frey and Osborne still have a few years to be proved right, …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Geoffrey Hinton: The AI apocalypse is coming! Personally, I welcome our new robot overlords

The Independent

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Spending five years asking strangers in …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Movie offers glimpse of robotics plans

China Daily

A man passes a poster of Wandering Earth II at a cinema in Shenyang, Liaoning province, on Jan 23, 2023. As Wandering Earth II, the sequel to China's most successful sci-fi epic, is well received in cinemas, the seemingly omnipotent industrial robots, a recurring presence in the film, offer a glimpse into the country's plan to be a global innovation …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Human Interest: Will Rise of The Robots Leave Us Jobless? News18 Gets Expert View

News 18

With the rapid technological advancements in the past few years, the world noticed China, the US, Japan and South Korea becoming the top countries in terms of the usage of robots. The debate The rise of robots or smart tech has baffled many including now-Twitter boss Elon Musk, who once said: “Robots will be able to do everything better than …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Sony says it has technology for humanoid robots, just looking for use

The Hindu

Japanese electronics and entertainment conglomerate Sony Group Corp said on Tuesday it has the technology to make humanoid robots quickly once it has identified how they could be effectively used. "In terms of technology, several companies in the world including this one have enough technology accumulated to make them swiftly once it becomes clear which usage is promising," Sony Chief …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Digital 'companions' are now on order in Beijing

China Daily

The best futurists believe we are just a few years away from a digital metaverse where bots catering to every human whim and perverse desire would be a click away. One of the best movies in this genre is Blade Runner, the Harrison Ford original that introduced the idea of clones called "replicants" used as sex toys and slave labor …

Digital

2 years, 3 months ago

Digital 'companions' are now on order in Beijing

China Daily

The best futurists believe we are just a few years away from a digital metaverse where bots catering to every human whim and perverse desire would be a click away. One of the best movies in this genre is Blade Runner, the Harrison Ford original that introduced the idea of clones called "replicants" used as sex toys and slave labor …

Digital