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Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering team is another step closer to developing soft robotics and wearable systems that mimic the…

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Robots square off in world’s first humanoid boxing match

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. After decades of being tortured, shoved,…

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Meet Amazon’s 38-year old supply chain guru, helping CEO Andy Jassy navigate tariff chaos with a giant fleet of planes, trucks, and robots

When the Covid pandemic upended Amazon’s operations—and the entire world in 2020—Udit Madan was tasked with a crucial side job:…

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Empowering robots with human-like perception to navigate unwieldy terrain

The wealth of information provided by our senses that allows our brain to navigate the world around us is remarkable.…

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Transforming hospital sanitation: Autonomous robots for wiping and UV-C disinfection

Professor Keehoon Kim and Ph.D. candidate Jaewon Byun from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science…

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Gender characteristics of service robots can influence customer decisions

The hospitality industry can leverage the gender characteristics of service robots to influence customers' decisions, according to new research from…

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Business

Howard Lutnick says Trump’s tariffs will create ‘great jobs of the future’—fixing factory robots. Labor experts disagree

The future of labor is providing maintenance for automated factory technology, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told CNBC. He posited that…

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UPS in talks with startup Figure AI to deploy humanoid robots

United Parcel Service Inc. is in talks with robotics startup Figure AI Inc. to use humanoid robots for some tasks…

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Flying robots unlock new horizons in construction

Robotic arms and 3D printing gantries can already be found on construction sites — albeit mostly as heavy, permanently installed…

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Elon Musk says Tesla will have ‘thousands’ of Optimus robots by year’s end, but China slapping controls on rare earths is hobbling production

Rare-earth metals form the powerful magnets crucial to producing fighter jets, smartphones, and the motors that power the arms of…

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