The Latest Breaking News from Robots

Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics, the startup building kid-sized robots for the home

Amazon has just acquired Fauna Robotics, which is developing “safe and fun robots for everyone".

Euronews · Mar 25

Roving robots may keep the sun shining on solar panels

Originally designed for mining sites, some autonomous robots are being redeployed to solar farms to perform dirty work that is dangerous to humans.

AAP · Mar 24

AI compressed billions of years of evolution into seconds to create 'Lego-like robots' that can recover even when they lose limbs

Modular robots are easily expandable, know when they're upside down or stuck, and can march forward across all kinds of terrain.

LiveScience · Mar 24

Joe Kent Defects, Robots, and Mad Men Sequel Ideas

Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss political fallout from the Iran war, Tulsi Gabbard's pivot, and Rand Paul calling out Markwayne Mullin.

Reason · Mar 20

Two indie games with the same name accidentally launched days apart, so the devs averted disaster by working together: "I made back what I put into the game in the first 24 hours"

"It restored some faith for me"

GamesRadar · Mar 20

Tesla Faces the ‘Couch Problem’: Modern Physics Warns the Optimus Robot Will Fail and Send TSLA Stock Falling

Tesla’s $1.57T valuation clashes with falling revenue (-3.8%). Why engineering limits and the “Couch Problem” leave investors with no margin of safety in the race for Optimus.

Barchart · Mar 20

Game, Set, Machine: As Robots Master Tennis, Questions Grow Over the Future of Human Sport

Is the age of the human athlete over? Discover how the Galbot G1 used the LATENT framework and only 5 hours of data to master humanoid robot tennis, sparking a global debate on human obsolescence in professional sports.

International Business Times UK · Mar 20

Dancing robot performance goes awry, sending plates and chopsticks flying in hot pot restaurant

A video circulating on the Chinese social media platform Rednote showed the robot smashing plates and flinging dishware and chopsticks during what appeared to be a performance gone awry.

Euronews · Mar 20

Fact check: Are Pokémon GO players unwittingly helping to train AI?

The hit mobile game Pokémon GO has come under scrutiny following claims that images captured within the app may have been used to train AI systems developed by its creator, without players' consent. However, these images were not collected entirely without users’ awareness.

Euronews · Mar 20

Pokémon Go players built a 30-billion-photo map that's now training robots to deliver your pizza

How Niantic Spatial is turning a decade of 30 billion crowdsourced photos and data into the most precise urban navigation system delivery robots ever had.

Fortune · Mar 19