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A technician uses two joysticks to teleoperate small robotic arms that fold T-shirts. Larger robots shuffle pantry goods ...

Facepalm: Amazon has responded to reports that the company aims to replace 600,000 US warehouse workers with robots by 2033. Predictably, it's trying to put a positive spin on the news, claiming that ...

Amazon has spent years automating its warehouses with robots. Its mechanical workforce is more than one million strong, rivaling the size of its human workforce of some 1.56 million people. Robots, in ...

Humanoid robots are edging closer to everyday life, and a new wave of US startups is betting that the real breakthrough will ...

To someday allow scientists to stay underwater conducting research for days on end, the UK-based company DEEP has designed Vanguard, a "subsea human habitat." The company unveiled its prototype ...

Inside Vanguard, an underwater 'human habitat' designed by UK firm DEEP, where scientists may one day be able to live underwater for days on end while conducting research Inside Vanguard, an ...

On any given day in Miami Beach, Wynwood or Brickell, you’ll see small robots shaped like mini shopping carts rolling down the sidewalks making food deliveries. They’re a convenient service for food ...

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