robots

Zircons in a Martian meteorite widens the possible timeframe for life on Mars.

A team of astrophysicists uses AI to figure out which clusters of stars merged to become our galaxy.

At the heart of the job is a cognitive ability called 'situational awareness' that involves 'the continuous extraction of environmental information [and the] integration of this information with prior knowledge to form a coherent mental picture'.

Robots are stepping in to fill essential roles, such as sanitizing warehouses and hospitals, ferrying test samples to laboratories, and serving as telemedicine avatars.

Walmart is parting ways with robots used to monitor store inventory as the retail giant realized humans are just as capable, a new report said. The robot layoff is the result of the company cutting

To meet the increasing food needs in the world, several firms are banking on robotics. Alphabet, a Google holding company, has just presented its Mineral project. Its new autonomous robots would be able to individually analyze the evolution of each of the plants present in a field.

Robots that can cook — flipping burgers and baking bread — are in growing demand as virus-wary kitchens try to put some distance between workers and customers. Starting this fall, the White Castle burger chain will test a robot arm that can cook french fries and other foods. The robot, dubbed Flippy, is made by …

As if the world wasn’t getting dystopian enough. An enterprising sci-fi film crew has devised an ingenious way to shoot their film while circumventing coronavirus concerns — by casting a real-life A.I. robot named Erica. The move marks the first time a movie will star an artificially intelligent actor, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “She …

Fiat Chrysler said it planned to list its robot-making business, giving new details on Monday about the future of Turin-based Comau, which it already planned to spin off. Comau will be spun off shortly after FCA completes its merger with Peugeot maker PSA and its shares distributed to shareholders of the new group. The deal …

Apparel chain Gap is speeding up its rollout of warehouse robots for assembling online orders so it can limit human contact during the coronavirus pandemic, the company told Reuters. Gap reached a deal early this year to more than triple the number of item-picking robots it uses to 106 by the fall. Then the pandemic …