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The Seagull Pro cleans your pool with a quad-motor system
The Aiper Seagull Pro is a new pool-cleaning robot with a quad-motor system and a $900 price tag.
Recommended Reading: The environmental cost of China's EV boom
Recommended Reading highlights the week's best writing on technology and more.
This golf robot uses a Microsoft Kinect camera and a neural network to line up putts
At least Golfi won't fly off the handle like Happy Gilmore when it misses.
Hitting the Books: How Dave Chappelle and curious cats made Roomba a household name
Lowen Liu explores the development of iRobot's Roomba vacuum and its unlikely feline brand ambassadors.
Amazon's latest robot picker for warehouses uses AI to identify objects
The company claims Sparrow can help make workplaces more efficient and safer, but reports have suggested there are higher rates of serious injuries at Amazon's automated warehouses.
VR-controlled robots are being designed to treat injured soldiers
UK researchers envision a future where medical technicans send telepresence robots into harm's way.
Xiaomi's new 2-in-1 robot vacuum can wash and dry its own mops
The Xiaomi Robot Vacuum X10+ can automatically empty its dust bin, refill its water tank, wash its mops and dry them with heat.
HP's construction robot puts blueprints on site floors
HP has unveiled a robot that helps construction workers put blueprints on the floor much faster than they could themselves.
Xiaomi beats Tesla to building a working robot
Xiaomi unveiled a working humanoid robot prototype dubbed CyberOne.
A chess-playing robot broke its seven-year-old opponent's finger
In something out of Black Mirror meets Queen's Gambit, a chess robot accidentally broke a child's finger during an exhibition in Moscow.
Proteus is Amazon's first fully autonomous warehouse robot
Amazon has also introduced a new robotic arm and scanning technology for fulfillment centers.
Robosen's Optimus Prime Transformer robot truck gets an auto-converting trailer
Hasbro and Robosen have launched a companion trailer for Optimus Prime with equally cool auto-conversion features and an equally steep $750 price.
Hitting the Books: The case against tomorrow's robots looking like people
In the excerpt below from 'Human-Centered AI' professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, Ben Shneiderman, examines the pitfalls of our innate desire to humanize the mechanical constructs we build.
Scientists create cube robots that can shapeshift in space
ElectroVoxels are cheap to make and use electromagnets for reconfiguration.
MIT researchers create AI system that could make robots better at handling objects
Using a model-free reinforcement AI algorithm, researchers created a simulated, anthropomorphic hand that could manipulate more than 2,000 objects.
University of Adelaide built a robot spider to scan Australia’s Naracoorte Caves
In the southeast of South Australia lie the Naracoorte Caves.
Amazon Astro is an Alexa robot that roams your home
Amazon built an Alexa-enabled robot that moves around your home autonomously.
Hyundai puts Boston Dynamic's Spot robot to work as a factory safety inspector
Boston Dynamics’ Spot has found itself a new job, and thankfully this time it doesn’t involve a potential battlefield role.
Singapore has deployed robots to patrol public areas
Singapore has started testing a robot named Xavier, putting a couple of them to work by having them patrol and survey a public area.