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Domain: Robotics: Designing Intelligent Machines ×

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Tech & Startups

Uber’s new autonomous vehicle division is about survival and opportunity

TechCrunch · US

Uber Autonomous Solutions will see the company taking on all the tasks associated with operating a robotaxi, self-driving truck, or sidewalk delivery robot bus…

AI / Deep Tech

The human work behind humanoid robots is being hidden

MIT Technology Review · Global

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In January, Nvidia’s …

Geopolitics

Fact check: Are China's robot soldiers just AI fakes?

Deutsche Welle (DW) – World · Europe

Videos that suggest China may be building a robot army sound like science fiction, but social media says it's real. DW Fact Check investigates.

Geopolitics

Humans vs robots? China begs to disagree

South China Morning Post – World · China

The 2026 Spring Festival Gala, one of the world’s most-watched television events, featured a dazzling array of humanoid robots. They performed martial arts, ex…

Engineering

Video Friday: Humanoid Robots Celebrate Spring

IEEE Spectrum · Global

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcomi…

Tech & Startups

Toy Story 5 takes aim at creepy AI toys: ‘I’m always listening’

TechCrunch · US

Addictive, AI-enabled tablets are taking over, and also, Woody is balding in the new Toy Story movie, out June 19.

Tech & Startups

Meet Scotland’s Whisky-Sniffing Robot Dog

Wired · Global

Inside Dewar’s cavernous whisky warehouses, man’s best mechanical friend—a Boston Dynamics robot dog with an ethanol sensor for a nose—is on the hunt for leaky…

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