Trump’s tariffs hit Musk: Tesla delays production of Optimus robot due to «problem with Chinese magnets»
More and more American companies and industries are suffering from the unreasonable tariffs imposed by the Donald Trump administration. Another «victim of» tariffs is Tesla, which is run by one of the most ardent supporters of the current US president. This time, it is not about electric vehicles, but about humanoid robot Optimuswhose entry into…
The uprising is not today! 70% of robots did not reach the finish line in the first race against humans
Beijing hosted the first-ever competition where dozens of humanoid robots ran a half marathon alongside humans — spoiler alert, there were many fakes.
NASA will use Drone.UA robots to prepare for lunar exploration — the manufacturer was spotted at CES-2025
The other day, the head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation announced that Ukraine’s Drone.UA had delivered a batch of ground robots to NASA, and now Forbes Ukraine revealed some details of the cooperation.
Apple has shown a Pixar-style robot lamp: it dances and speaks with Siri’s voice (it also has a light)
The rumors that Apple is developing a home robot don’t seem so unfounded, given the new development of its research division.
Swarm of robotic ants moves heavy objects in video by Korean scientists
Scientists at Hanyang University in Seoul have created tiny and cute ant-like robots that work together to move objects and do other stuff just like real insects do.
The inventor has created six copies of himself — the robot lectures instead of the author
Over the past 18 years, Japanese artist Hiroshi Ishiguro has created six of his robot clones, each of which has become more and more like the author.
Tesla caught speeding up video of Optimus robots — probably to make them look «more capable»
The latest video of Tesla’s humanoid robots roaming the workshops seemed to showcase the progress of Optimus development — if not for one interesting thing. The website Gizmodo I noticed that many of the shots were deliberately sped up (probably to make Tesla’s robots look «more capable»).
Director «I, Robot» accuses Elon Musk of plagiarism: «Give me back my designs»
But the director Alex Proyas was also reminded that he did not invent everything himself.
Optimus robots at Tesla event… remotely controlled by humans
Last week, Tesla held a We, Robot event to showcase its new self-driving cars Cybercab and Robovan. The company also paid considerable attention to its Optimus humanoid robots, which were a significant part of the show.
Robocop’s time has come: police robot detains suspect after shooting
A robocop detains a bandit. An armed suspect barricaded himself in a motel and shot at a police robot. Despite this, the robot was able to overpower and detain the man.
«Alphabet for Android» Alexei Dekan: a fantastic anthology about the relationship between humans and robots. Review by ITC.ua
Despite my skeptical attitude toward short story collections, there are more and more of them in the contemporary book world. And I’m only talking about the fiction genre, which is definitely experiencing a new wave of popularity in Ukraine. Just recently we wrote about the collection «Palimpsest» by the famous British writer Charles…
The future is already here: Figure AI has developed a humanoid robot for production and everyday life
The California-based company Figure has unveiled the second generation of its robot, designed for production lines and future use at home.
The future of dentistry: a robot prepares a tooth for prosthetics 8 times faster than doctors
Perceptive, a Boston-based company, has created an artificial intelligence system that performed a fully automated dental procedure on a human for the first time in the world. The robotic dentist performed the operation eight times faster than a human specialist, opening a new era in dental practice.
Korean robot commits suicide after a year in public service
South Korea’s city council says its robot administrator killed himself by jumping down a flight of stairs last week — local media is now mourning the loss as the country’s first «suicidal robot».
Laptops, portable gaming consoles, robots and other MSI innovations at COMPUTEX 2024
At COMPUTEX 2024, MSI presented several new devices, including those based on artificial intelligence.
🤖Atlas is dead, long live Atlas! Boston Dynamics unveils a new generation of humanoid robot
Boston Dynamics is very original introduced The new generation of the bipedal robot Atlas — all-electric (without any hydraulics), much faster, more flexible, more agile, and even more terrifying. Together with Robops Spot and a robot manipulator Stretch he will be engaged in solving «the most complex problems in industry».
Apple is developing a home robot and a device with a moving smart display — Mark Gurman
Citing his own sources at Apple, Mark Gurman of Bloomberg says that the company has teams exploring the development of personal robotics, which could potentially become one of Apple’s next devices. Engineers on these teams have been researching a mobile robot that could follow users around the home and a desktop home device that uses robotics…
Figure 01 humanoid robot developer valued at $2.6 billion — after investments from Bezos, OpenAI and Nvidia
Figure AI has raised $675 million in another round of funding and plans to use the funds to accelerate the development of its humanoid robot Figure 01. Investors include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Microsoft, CNBC reports.
Elon Musk has published a new video of a Tesla robot — but it seems that it was «filmed» back in the 2000s
The video posted by the billionaire on Saturday in X was of such low quality that it looked like it was shot on a phone that was relevant two decades ago.
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