Boston Dynamics uses ChatGPT to create a robot tour guide
Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot has already impressed us with its astonishing agility, but now it can make a pretty good tour guide, too. Keen to explore how generative AI tools…
Autonomous delivery robots at center of bomb scare ‘prank’
A Starship Technologies robot on a delivery run. Customers place an order via an app and the robot delivers it inside a secure compartment. Starship Technologies A bomb threat involving…
Amazon’s new humanoid robot will not take human jobs, company insists
Amazon Amazon says its warehouses now deploy more than 750,000 robots, most of them robotic arms or wheel-based machines designed for repetitive jobs to free up employees for other tasks.…
3 rom-coms on Hulu you need to watch in October
Do you need a break from all of the horror films and TV shows on Hulu this month? If so, we’ve found the three rom-coms that are going to brighten…
Bear-repelling ‘Monster Wolf’ robot gets wider deployment
We first reported on Japan’s slightly bizarre “Monster Wolf” robot wolf a couple of years ago. The odd-looking contraption — complete with glowing red eyes and protruding fangs — was…
Telepresence classroom robots trialed for absent students
A school in Japan is turning to robots in a bid to tackle rising truancy rates. The school in Kumamoto, southwest Japan, will allow absent students to control telepresence robots…
The squishy Sensiworm robot goes places other robots can’t
GE Aerospace has unveiled a remarkable — and remarkably squishy — robot called Sensiworm (Soft ElectroNics Skin-Innervated Robotic Worm) that’s set to enhance aircraft safety. The camera-equipped Sensiworm has been…
Apptronik’s new humanoid robot is a rival to the Tesla Bot
Apptronik Another humanoid robot has come sniffing for your job. Created by Texas-based Apptronik, the new robot worker, called Apollo, certainly looks like the real deal and is far from…
Police robots put on permanent patrol at Singapore airport
A police robot on patrol at Changi Airport in Singapore. Singapore Police Force Singapore’s main international airport is going ahead with the permanent deployment of police robots following a successful…
This remarkable shape-shifting robot could one day head to Mars
NASA is focusing increasingly on interplanetary missions to faraway places like Mars, and such highly ambitious voyages will require robotic equipment to assist astronauts with a range of tasks. With…