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Amazon shelves business version of its Astro security robot
Silicon Republic· 12 hours agoThe company has confirmed that Astro for Business will no longer function starting 25 September this...
Robot with human brain tissue learns how to use arms
The Independent· 3 days agoScientists in China have built a robot capable of performing critical tasks using an artificial brain grown from human stem cells. The brain-on-chip was...
Scientists create smiling robot with face covered in ‘living’ skin
Scotland Today· 3 days agoScientists have taken robots to the next level and have created a smiling machine, covered in live...
Amazon is killing off its business patrol robot
TechRadar· 10 hours agoAmazon has announced it will soon discontinue its Astro for Business robot less than a year after launching the security guard designed for small and...
Tiny robots can track down and kill cancer cells
Metro· 3 days agoThe sci-fi future we’ve been waiting for is almost here. Tiny robots that can target and kill cancer cells have been created by scientists in an exciting...
School boy, 12, attends class via robot that other students place in the classroom
Surrey Live via Yahoo News UK· 5 days ago-Credit: (Image: No credit) A Twickenham schoolboy battling a rare type of cancer has taken the form...
Government Robot Falls Down Stairs, Dies
Futurism via Yahoo News UK· 2 days agoA South Korean administrative robot took a serious tumble down a set of stairs, leading to local reports of the first robot suicide in the country. As...
Our attitudes towards AI reveal how we really feel about human intelligence
The Guardian· 1 day agoThe idea that superintelligent robots are alien invaders coming to “steal our jobs” reveals profound shortcomings in the way we think about work, value, and intelligence itself. When we “other ...
Robot cats, dogs and birds are being deployed amid an 'epidemic of loneliness'
TechCrunch via Yahoo News UK· 4 days agoIn the early 1990s, a researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and...
Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines
The Guardian· 18 hours agoIt resembles an enormous, malevolent robot from 1980s sci-fi but West Japan Railway’s new humanoid employee was designed with nothing more sinister than a spot of painting ...