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The Latest Breaking News from Agility Robotics

‘A fork in the road’: laundry-sorting robot spurs AI hopes and fears at Europe’s biggest tech event

Humanoid called Digit fuelled boosterism at Web Summit, but also raised concerns about jobs, safety and climate

The Guardian - UK

Should we fear the rise of robots? What the future of life and work will look like with AI

Four in 10 jobs could be affected by the power of generative AI, according to research by the International Monetary Fund. But what will our lives look like in the years to come? Chris Stokel-Walker investigates

Evening Standard

‘It’s the robot we were all expecting – like C3PO’: why aren’t humanoids in our homes yet?

Tesla and others are trying to infuse robots with artificial intelligence, yet their development is dogged by technical and safety challenges. But the dream of a multipurpose domestic droid lives on

The Guardian - UK

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Why Peggy Johnson went from Magic Leap to a humanoid robot startup

The former Microsoft exec was attracted to a hardware business that had found product-market fit.

Fortune

Agility Robotics’ humanoid robot has its first real job—at a Spanx factory

CEO Peggy Johnson said the robot can lift up to 50 pounds and is ideally suited for the kind of repetitive, backbreaking work that leads to injuries when done by humans.

Fortune

Humanoid robots are here, but they're a little awkward. Do we really need them?

Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction

The Independent UK

Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses

Digit will begin its time on the floor by shifting empty tote boxes amid concerns humans will be shifted out of jobs

The Guardian - US

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No, this robot didn't collapse from exhaustion after 'a long day's work'

A video with nearly 5 million views on Twitter shows a robot collapsing to the ground after putting away some boxes. According to those who shared the post, the robot collapsed after a "long day's work" which caused it to deactivate itself from exhaustion. However, the scene actually took place…

France 24

Humanoid robots are coming to a warehouse near you

A new robot named Digit can lift and move boxes alongside humans.

Axios

Amazon Invests In Israeli Robotics Firm BionicHIVE

E-commerce giant backs startup developing an autonomous warehouse robot, as well as four U.S. tech firms.

Zenger

Just make the Amazon and Tesla job-killing robots kiss already

Amazon's $1 billion Industrial Innovation Fund is throwing major funds behind Agility Robotics' bi-pedal delivery robot, Digit.

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