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Thermonator, the Flame-Throwing Robot Dog, Can Now Be Yours for $9,420

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The year is 2024 and technology is doing incredible things. For the first time ever, you...
The year is 2024 and technology is doing incredible things. For the first time ever, you can purchase a walking robot dog with a flame thrower on its back. Yes, the Thermonator, which was announced late last year, is finally available for purchase in the United States. Shockingly, the product can be yours for a mere...

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Boston Dynamics Retires Its Legendary Humanoid Robot

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In a new video posted today, Boston Dynamics is sending off its hydraulic Atlas humanoid robot....
In a new video posted today, Boston Dynamics is sending off its hydraulic Atlas humanoid robot. “For almost a decade,” the video description reads, “Atlas has sparked our imagination, inspired the next generations of roboticists, and leapt over technical barriers in the field. Now it’s time for our hydraulic Atlas r...

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Apple reportedly exploring personal home robots

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Apple is exploring the development of personal home robots after ditching its electric vehicle project, Bloomberg...
Apple is exploring the development of personal home robots after ditching its electric vehicle project, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.Engineers have been looking into a robot that can follow users around their homes, as well as a tabletop device that uses robotics to adjust a display screen, Bloomberg reported, citin...

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Apple Explores Home Robotics as Potential 'Next Big Thing' After Car Fizzles

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Engineering household robots to have a little common sense

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America's Plumber Deficit Isn't Good for the Economy

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China has 12½ times more robots in its workforce than industry experts predicted

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China has 12½ times more robots in its workforce than expected, according to an independent think...
China has 12½ times more robots in its workforce than expected, according to an independent think tank in Washington, an indication that Chinese workers are being replaced by robots at the fastest rate in the world.“China does not yet appear to be leading in robotic innovation, but … it is likely only a matter of ti...

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Physical Intelligence Is Building a Brain for Robots

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Bezos, Nvidia Join OpenAI in Funding Humanoid Robot Startup Figure AI

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Disney's newest robot demonstrates collaborative cuteness

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This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and...
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. If Disney’s history of storytelling has taught us anything, it’s to never underestimate the power of a great sidekick. Even though sidekicks aren’t the stars of the show, they pr...

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Tiny Quadrotor Learns to Fly in 18 Seconds

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It’s kind of astonishing how quadrotors have scaled over the past decade. Like, we’re now at...
It’s kind of astonishing how quadrotors have scaled over the past decade. Like, we’re now at the point where they’re verging on disposable, at least from a commercial or research perspective—for a bit over US $200, you can buy a little 27-gram, completely open-source drone, and all you have to do is teach it to fly....

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A Man Who Coined the Word "Robot" Defends Himself

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You’re familiar with Karel Čapek, right? If not, you should be—he’s the guy who (along with...
You’re familiar with Karel Čapek, right? If not, you should be—he’s the guy who (along with his brother Josef) invented the word “robot.” Čapek introduced robots to the world in 1921, when his play “R.U.R.” (subtitled “Rossum’s Universal Robots”) was first performed in Prague. It was performed in New York City the n...

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The Telemetron (2017)

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Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled...
Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and during their relatively short stays, they are provided with minimum supplies to remain alive and able to perform experiments. As we begin to plan less for short visits and more for life...

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Busted: Elon Musk admits new Optimus video isn't what it seems

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Elon Musk has Xeeted out a video of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot folding a t-shirt –...
Elon Musk has Xeeted out a video of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot folding a t-shirt – which would be great, but then followed up with a second Xeet clarifying that the video is far less impressive than it looks – after being called out by observers.Dozens of companies are now pushing to make 2024 the year when huma...

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The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain

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The generative AI revolution embodied in tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and many others is at its...
The generative AI revolution embodied in tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and many others is at its core based on a simple formula: Take a very large neural network, train it on a huge dataset scraped from the Web, and then use it to fulfill a broad range of user requests. Large language models (LLMs) can answer ques...

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Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Whole-Body Teleoperation

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Mobile Aloha Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Who Teleoperat

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Thermonator, the Flame-Throwing Robot Dog, Can Now Be Yours for $9,420

Boston Dynamics Retires Its Legendary Humanoid Robot

Apple reportedly exploring personal home robots

Apple Explores Home Robotics as Potential 'Next Big Thing' After Car Fizzles

Engineering household robots to have a little common sense

America's Plumber Deficit Isn't Good for the Economy

China has 12½ times more robots in its workforce than industry experts predicted

Physical Intelligence Is Building a Brain for Robots

Bezos, Nvidia Join OpenAI in Funding Humanoid Robot Startup Figure AI

Disney's newest robot demonstrates collaborative cuteness

Tiny Quadrotor Learns to Fly in 18 Seconds

A Man Who Coined the Word "Robot" Defends Himself

The Telemetron (2017)

Busted: Elon Musk admits new Optimus video isn't what it seems

The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain

Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Whole-Body Teleoperation

Mobile Aloha Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Who Teleoperat