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Machenta cofounders Edward Johns and Vitalis Vosylius Oscar May Machenta raised $40 million in seed funding led by Creandum and Union Square Ventures. It says robots can learn tasks from…
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images Bill Gates says AI will bring about an age of abundance in 20 years, but it'll be a rocky…
Aigen’s autonomous, solar-powered robot Element. (Aigen Photo) For years, Aigen has been building and tweaking solar-powered robots designed to pull weeds on farms. But the Redmond, Wash., startup is also…
Elon Musk said his stint at DOGE led him to this conclusion. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Elon Musk said that "AI and robots" are the key to fixing America's national debt.…
An office in action before the rise of generative AI. Kirn Vintage Stock/Corbis via Getty Images A version of this story originally appeared in the AI Insider newsletter. Sign up…
A gardener tends a flowerbed. cbarnesphotography/Getty Images Anthropic examined what might happen when AI and robots are combined. That could put more hands-on jobs, including gardening, in the path of…
Retail’s next great efficiency breakthrough may come with an invoice addressed to someone else. As Walmart pushes robotics deeper into its distribution network, and Amazon brings artificial intelligence into consumers’ everyday…
Every returned item has to be picked up, identified and sorted before it can be sold again, and that work has long resisted automation. “If a system only works on…
Regulatory approval of a new Johnson & Johnson tool opens a new category in surgical robotics, the MedTech company said in a presentation released Tuesday (Oct. 13) in conjunction with…
Ground robots are being deployed in a variety of roles during Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi. Yevhen Titov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images Ground robots are playing a key role in Operation…
All-robotic airborne assaults have become a new operational reality in Ukraine. Courtesy of NC13 Ukrainian forces recently used heavy bomber drones to air-drop armed robots behind enemy lines. Traditional airborne…
