Toyota unveiled a new robot that can tackle domestic chores like clearing tables and wiping down countertops and other surfaces. A human can easily tell an object apart from its reflection, but ‘transparent or reflective items commonly found in the home befuddle today’s robots,’ according to a statement from the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). ‘Since … Read more
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot to explore UFOs in new Showtime docu-series inspired by recent reports US government is taking the phenomenon seriously By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 23:52 BST, 16 June 2021 | Updated: 23:54 BST, 16 June 2021 J.J. Abrams is set to produce a four-part documentary for Showtime dealing with UFOs (unidentified flying objects) … Read more
Secretive Chinese tech firm Tencent’s foot-tall robot on wheels can leap chasms, somersault and even bring you a latte Ollie is Tencent’s first bipedal robot, using wheels instead of feet In a promo video, the bot takes stairs, sloped terrain and even a climbs a wrecking ball without stumbling Ollie flips 360 degrees to bridge … Read more
Vladimir Putin’s fearsome special unit of TANK ROBOTS will go into action ‘soon’ in the Russian Army amid fears of war in Ukraine Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu attended a firepower demonstration He witnessed Russia’s unmanned Uran-9 robot tanks operating remotely Russia is preparing to deploy its first unit of five Uran-9 in the near … Read more
The French army is the latest buyer of Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot, which it’s using for training in combat scenarios. Images have been shared by France‘s military school, the Saint-Cyr, of Spot with soldiers during military exercises. The military school said Spot, and the ‘robotisation of the battlefield’, is helping ‘raising students’ awareness of … Read more
Products featured in this Mail Best article are independently selected by our shopping writers. If you make a purchase using links on this page, we may earn an affiliate commission. The age of spending hours vacuuming your whole house is over – as now there are robots to do it. And right now, Amazon is … Read more
It’s a (robot) dog’s world! Bizarre moment woman walks her $75,000 mechanical pet called Scrappy on a leash at Florida beach A woman was seen walking a robotic dog on a leash along a Florida beach The four-legged robot is designed by Boston Dynamics, which named it Spot However, the woman changed the name of … Read more
Ricky Gervais has joked that he could be replaced by a robot on stage one day in the future. Talking to Sam Harris on the Making Sense podcast, the comedian, 59, even quipped that the piece of machinery could be a ‘better stand-up’. He joked: ‘Will there be a robot that’s bigger and taller and stronger … Read more
A robot has heard sounds through the ear of a dead locust in a world’s first experiment that uses the Ear-on-a-Chip method to create a long-lasting sensory device. A team from Tel Aviv University announced their new ‘Ear-bot’ that replaces an electronic microphone in a bio-hybrid robot with the insect’s ear, allowing the machine to … Read more
Forget ‘a bull in a china shop’ — tomorrow, members of the public will be able to take remote control of an armed, paintball-firing robotic dog in an art gallery. Quirky, chaos-loving, New York-based start-up MSCHF (pronounced ‘mischief’) are behind the campaign, which highlights the risk of such machines being misused. MSCHF mounted the compressed air … Read more