robots

Robots were supposed to take our jobs. Instead, they’re making them worse. - Vox The robot apocalypse is already here, it just looks different than you thought. The robot revolution is always allegedly just around the corner. In the utopian vision, technology emancipates human labor from...

Travelers at Philadelphia International Airport can now get food delivered – by a robot - Philadelphia Business Journal Philadelphia International Airport’s concessions program is piloting robotic food delivery to customers at the travel hub as a new addition to its contactless ordering...

How hard will the robots make us work? - The Verge In warehouses, call centers, and other sectors, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they’re making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous On conference stages and at campaign rallies, tech executives and politicians warn of a...

Can Robots Help Solve the Fresh Food Problem? - PYMNTS Fresh food is one of those products that, depending on the context, can almost feel like a minor luxury. Sure, consumers who can get to good grocery stores or farmers’ markets (not all shoppers can) or afford to subscribe to meal-kit...

Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill - The Atlantic Tomorrow’s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare. allops Island—a remote, marshy spit of land along the eastern shore of Virginia, near a famed...

‘Robots’ Are Not 'Coming for Your Job'—Management Is - Gizmodo Listen: ‘Robots’ are not coming for your jobs. I hope we can be very clear here—at this particular point in time, ‘robots’ are not sentient agents capable of seeking out and applying for your job and then landing the gig on its...

Hey, Food Influencers: Robots Are Coming for Your Jobs - Food & Wine Meet the data engineer who created an automated Instagram account to earn free meals. A Manhattan-based data scientist just pulled off the ultimate Instagram grift—he created a 100 percent automated account that...

Scientists teach a robot dog to get back up after they kick it down - CNET Researchers teach their robot canine to "roll over", which is both terrifying and adorable. The relationship between humans and dog-like robots seemingly follows this timeline: Humans make robotic dog creatures that...

New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human workers - MIT Technology Review Down on a new robot farm, machines tend rows of leafy greens under the watch of software called “The Brain.” Iron Ox isn’t like most robotics companies. Instead of trying to flog you its technology, it...

The food delivery robots hitting a sidewalk near you - Axios Heading back to Axios' San Francisco office after a meeting with a Berkeley professor, I nearly collided with an icebox-sized tub with wheels and a flagpole, sporting Cal colors. What it's doing: The sidewalk robot is one of around...

A Robot May One Day Draw Your Blood - Smithsonian Scientists have developed a “venipuncture robot” that can automatically draw blood and perform lab tests, no humans needed t’s distressing for the patient and perhaps even more distressing for the parents: your child needs a blood test, but the...

Robots Are Making $6 Burgers in San Francisco - Eater San Francisco is ground zero for tech companies, from social media to bioengineering. It’s also a city obsessed with food, and often the first destination for international chains like Michelin-starred Tsuta Ramen to break into the U.S...