A warehouse robot's job is carrying, not picking
A warehouse robot spends its shift moving pallets, totes, and shelves under a routing system, while a person still handles most single items.
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New robot submersibles aim to explore the ocean's hadal zone
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and NASA built Orpheus, a small robot submarine meant to survey the ocean trenches below 6,000 metres.
Amazon paid $775 million for a warehouse robot maker
In 2012 Amazon bought Kiva Systems for $775 million in cash, taking in-house the robots that brought items to warehouse workers.
A surgeon still controls the surgical robots used on patients
A surgeon drives the surgical robots used on patients today, from an NHS console to the labs training robots to work with less help.
Josef Čapek coined the word robot, not his brother Karel
Karel Čapek's 1921 play R.U.R. made the word 'robot' famous, but his brother Josef, a painter, is the one who coined it.
Why humanoid robots still struggle with balance and hands
A humanoid must balance on two legs, match a human hand and learn from demonstration. Figure and Tesla are trying, and Rodney Brooks sees a bubble.
Cables, rug edges and corners: why a robot vacuum gets stuck
Robot vacuums tend to stall on the same few things: loose cables, raised rug edges, thick carpet and dirty sensors. Better navigation helps, but only so far.