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MakeKit AS Educational Robots Revealed at BETT 2023

MakeKit AS delivers micro:bit drones, cars, rockets and more for STEM and STEAM subjects.

Tech&Learning

Mars cave-exploring robots take inspiration from Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumb trick

The rovers could use communication "breadcrumbs" to keep in touch with the surface as they explore caves, oceans, and lakes on alien worlds.

Space

Robots Served My Daughter and Her Friends Pizza… and It Was Awesome

A Southeast entertainment center turns to some friendly droids for guest fun and efficiency.

AVNetwork

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AI and robots fuel new job displacement fears

There's debate over whether the jobs lost to automation will be replaced by different or better roles.

Axios

Humanoid robots are coming to a warehouse near you

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

Axios

Beware, Catchers: The Robots Are Coming

Once an obscure art, pitch framing has become an essential MLB skill. But it is suddenly endangered.

Sports Illustrated

Engaging robots could be roaming Disney parks in the near future

A robotic rabbit wearing a helmet and roller skates tumbled out of a crate and got to its feet alone, extending its arms to balance itself on a stage at Disney’s panel at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas.

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates said AI could decide 'humans are a threat' and turn on us

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is 'excited' and 'inspired' by advancements in artificial intelligence but worries 'malign' forces could deploy robots to rule the world

Daily Mirror

Wheeled robots bring space age shopping delivery from city stores to customer doorsteps

The box-shaped wheeled robots have already been spotted roaming the streets on Sale, in Greater Manchester after they hit the roads last week

Daily Mirror

AI may have already taken over the world says Terminator director James Cameron

The filmmaker claims that 'no technology has ever not been weaponised' and that robots could easily kill off mankind

Wales Online

Can the heat from running computers help grow our food? It's complicated

Digital technologies are changing how food is produced. And it’s more than harvesting robots that are arriving on the scene. Companies are now pairing data centres with greenhouses, capturing the heat emitted by computing hardware and reusing it to grow crops indoors.

The Conversation

Moment lost 'shopping robot' gets stuck on a kerb during delivery

The company behind the new scheme says the new robots are still 'getting to know the neighbourhood'

Manchester Evening News

How Robots Can Coach Us On Our Mental Health

Scientists believe robots can be useful tools to promote mental well-being in the workplace. The post How robots can coach us on our mental health appeared first on Talker.

Zenger

Humanoid robots are coming

A startup called Figure is building a human-sized robot, initially for warehouse work.

Axios

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Zenger

How Robots Can Coach Us On Our Mental Health

Scientists believe robots can be useful tools to promote mental well-being in the workplace. The post How robots can coach us on our mental health appeared first on Talker.

Tribune News Service

Self-driving trucks to deliver robot-fulfilled grocery orders to Kroger stores

Kroger is about to add another layer of automation to its customers’ online grocery orders filled by robots at its new $55 million fulfillment center in southern Dallas.

Fortune

Your groceries will get stocked by robots and delivered by self-driving trucks (if you shop with Kroger)

Also if you live in Dallas.

Birmingham Post

The Co-op to use autonomous robots for deliveries in Greater Manchester

The service in Greater Manchester will initially be available to 24,000 residents across 10,500 households

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Co-op hires delivery droids to drop groceries in Greater Manchester

Fridge-sized self-drive robots from logistics firm Starship Technologies will ‘walk’ to customer homes in Sale and wait outside for drop-off

The Independent UK

Robots can help improve mental wellbeing at work if they look right, study suggests

Physical appearance of robots affects how people interact with them, researchers say

The Independent UK

Robots may help improve mental wellbeing at work if they look right – study

The physical appearance of robots affects how people interact with them, researchers found.

ABC News

Flinders University scientists use biology from insects to build robots with a brain

Scientists at an Adelaide university reverse-engineer the biology of insects to create a robot that can understand vision it is capturing from a camera.

The Conversation

Robots are performing Hindu rituals -- some devotees fear they'll replace worshippers

It isn’t just artists and teachers who are losing sleep over advances in automation and artificial intelligence. Robots are being brought into Hinduism’s holiest rituals – and not all worshippers are happy about it.

The Conversation

Amazon still seems hell bent on turning workers into robots – here's a better way forward

The strikes by hundreds of Amazon workers at the company’s Coventry warehouse in the English Midlands have brought into relief some of the problems of work in today’s high-tech society.

The Conversation

We want and we fear emotions in our robots. Here's what science fiction can teach us about flashes of emotion from Bing

Last month, Microsoft integrated its Bing search engine with Open AI’s GPT-4 chatbot, a large language model designed to interact with users in a conversational manner.

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