Category: robots
Magnetic FreeBOT orbs work together to climb large obstacles
We’ve seen both companies and research teams attempt to make modular robots an everyday reality, but, more often than not, they all run into the same problem: the mechanism that allows those devices to connect to each other is complicated and fragile… Source
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UK general says a quarter of the army could be robots by the 2030s
It’s no secret that numerous militaries are relying more on drones and other robotic vehicles, but the UK’s leadership has a particularly bold vision. As the Guardian reports, armed forces head General Sir Nick Carter told Sky News in an interview th… Source
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Walmart abandons plan to have robots check store inventories
Much as Elon Musk did with his Tesla Model 3 factory, Walmart has discovered that robots can’t necessarily displace humans. The retail giant has decided scrap plans to use them to automate inventory tracking after finding that people could do as good… Source
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Alphabet’s Mineral moonshot wants to help farmers with robotic plant buggies
In 2018, Alphabet's X lab said it was in the process of exploring how it could use artificial intelligence to improve farming. On Monday, X announced that its "computational agriculture" project is called Mineral. The Mineral team has spent the last… Source
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Miso is the future of restaurant tech and it doesn’t take much to invest
When you think of people investing in state-of-the-art technology products, your mind probably turns to yacht-owning billionaires dropping obscene amounts of money on AI products you’ve never heard of. This persistent and unfortunate association betw… Source
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NASA delays its Titan drone mission by another year
You’ll have to be more patient if you’re waiting for NASA to send a drone to Saturn’s moon Titan. The space agency has delayed Dragonfly’s launch by roughly a year, from 2026 to 2027, due to “external” factors. And yes, the COVID-19 pandemic is one o… Source
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