Tag: robots
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At CES 2024, tech companies are transforming the kitchen with AI and robots that do the cooking
[ad_1] Laura Hammond, GE Profile, speaks while giving a demonstration of the company’s new electric and smokeless smoker during the CES tech show Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Las Vegas. Credit: AP Photo/Ryan Sun Chef-like robots, AI-powered appliances and other high-tech kitchen gadgets are holding out the promise that humans don’t need to cook—or mix…
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The dawn of domestic robots could dramatically cut gender inequality when it comes to household work
[ad_1] Domestic work is vital for society to function. Meals need to be cooked, clothes and homes cleaned, and people need to be cared for. These tasks take time and, generally speaking, are not shared equally within households. Some of these tasks are now becoming automated. This could benefit gender equality, but we also need…
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Robots are coming for your love life
[ad_1] Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new digital matchmaker in town promises to offer less, not more, in the online dating swipescape and will charge users $111 monthly for it. Its 2023 market proposition? Artificial intelligence, of course. Under a premium membership-based model, Teleport aims to stoke romance and take a chunk of the $4.6…
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Loving your chosen family — of robots – Winnipeg Free Press
[ad_1] TJ Klune might be the first author whose book was born in a vacuum. The idea for the American author’s new science-fiction/fantasy novel, In the Lives of Puppets, came to him after he bought himself a Roomba. “Humans are humans, and so I did what a lot of humans do and anthropomorphized it, put…
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Security robots are at Philly Lowe’s stores. Some have already nicknamed them ‘snitchBOTs’
[ad_1] Credit: Knightscope Customers at Lowe’s stores across Philadelphia have encountered an unexpected sight in the parking lots over the last month—a 5-foot-tall, egg-shaped security robot that makes a cosmic whirring sound as it glides across the pavement. What seems to have surprised Philadelphians most about these new robots, aside from their very existence, is…
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Wireless TV, delivery robots and in-car VR
[ad_1] A member of the media films the Ottobot Yeti as it operates before the start of the CES tech show, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, in Las Vegas. Ottonoy.IO launches Ottobot Yeti at CES 2023. Ottobot Yeti, is a fully autonomous delivery robot that can navigate unattended deliveries for food and beverage retail and curbside…
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Robots take center stage in infrastructure rebuilds and repairs
[ad_1] More than one-third of American bridges need to be repaired, not to mention other critical infrastructure. It’s a prodigious task for which robots are well suited for the dangerous work. Image: National Transportation Safety Board, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh collapsed in January 2022. About 10 people were…
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EXPLAINER: Robots and Olympics – a potent photo combination
[ad_1] Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) BEIJING (AP) — A figure skater framed only by ragged ice gazes up, almost beseechingly. A goaltender sprawls inside a net, defeat written all over his limbs, even with his face obscured.…