IT総合 Robots can make jobs less meaningful for human colleagues
Much has been (and will continue to be) written about automation’s impact on the jobs market. In the short term, many em...
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IT総合 IT総合 ChatGPT is a squeeze away with Nothing’s upgraded earbuds
Nothing today announced a pair of refreshes to its earbud line. The naming conventions are a touch convoluted here, but ...
IT総合 Alphabet X’s Bellwether harnesses AI to help predict natural disasters
The world is on fire. Quite literally, much of the time quite literally. Predicting such disasters before they get out o...
IT総合 Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot goes electric
Atlas lies motionless in a prone position atop interlocking gym mats. The only soundtrack is the whirring of an electric...
IT総合 A humanoid robot is on its way from Mobileye founder
Mentee Robotics hasn’t been in stealth, exactly. The Israeli firm caught a small wave of press at the tail end of 2022, ...
IT総合 Atlas shrugged: Boston Dynamics retires its hydraulic humanoid robot
Now that humanoids are all the rage in the robotics industry, Boston Dynamics on Tuesday officially retired theirs. The ...
IT総合 These 75 robotics companies are hiring
It’s tough out there — and yet, doing my semi-regular jobs post always gives me hope. Seems every time I pos...
IT総合 Walmart will deploy robotic forklifts in its distribution centers
The story of warehouse robotics is a story of attempting to keep up with Amazon. It’s been more than a decade since the ...
IT総合 Humane’s $699 Ai Pin is now available
Humane today announced the availability of its first product, the Ai Pin. The Bay Area-based hardware startup has been k...
IT総合 European car manufacturer will pilot Sanctuary AI’s humanoid robot
Sanctuary AI announced that it will be delivering its humanoid robot to a Magna manufacturing facility. Based in Austria...
IT総合 Apple opens access to used iPhone components for repair
On Thursday, Apple announced that it has opened its iPhone repair process to include used components. Starting this fall...
IT総合 Humane’s Ai Pin considers life beyond the smartphone
Nothing lasts forever. Nowhere is the truism more apt than in consumer tech. This is a land inhabited by the eternally r...
IT総合 Muscle tissue harvested from mice cells move ‘biohybrid’ robots
Sometimes nature provides the best blueprints for building effective robots. It can also provide the best material. Bill...
IT総合 Collaborative Robotics is prioritizing ‘human problem solving’ over humanoid forms
Humanoids have sucked a lot of the air out of the room. It is, after all, a lot easier to generate press for robots that...
IT総合 Dyson’s new AR feature shows where you have (and haven’t) vacuumed
If this had been announced exactly a week prior, it would have been easy to mistake for some corporate April Foolery. Dy...
IT総合 Fairphone launches easy-to-repair earbuds
The right to repair has been a hot topic for several years now, hitting a kind of critical mass with domestic and intern...
IT総合 Shure MV7+: The best USB podcast mic gets better
I was happy — excited, even — to check out Shure’s latest USB microphone. Its predecessor, the MV7, has been...
IT総合 China tensions underline US investment in TSMC
The United States Department of Commerce Monday proposed investing as much as $6.6 billion to fund a third Taiwan Semico...
IT総合 Facebook’s Oculus acquisition turns 10
Every year, Time Magazine issues a list of the 200 best inventions of the past 12 months. Frankly, I don’t know how the ...
IT総合 Agility Robotics lays off some staff amid commercialization focus
Agility Robotics on Thursday confirmed that it has laid off a “small number” of employees. The well-funded Oregon-based ...
IT総合 Robot delivery firm Kiwibot buys Taipei chipmaker, citing US/China tensions
Bay Area/Colombia-based delivery robotics firm Kiwibot this week announced that it has acquired Auto Mobility Solutions....
IT総合 Apple’s electric car loss could be home robotics’ gain
For every tech success story, there are countless projects that slam headlong into the brick wall of reality. Apple’s el...
IT総合 OnePlus went ahead and built its own version of Google Magic Eraser
OnePlus has always marched to the beat of its own drummer — for better and worse. Take, for example, the company’s...
IT総合 Biden’s FCC argues net neutrality restoration will increase online free speech
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel on Wednesday announced plans to vote on rules restoring Net Neutrality. The vote, set...
IT総合 Apple Vision Pro’s Persona feature gets collaborative
Much like the headset for which they were designed, Apple’s Personas are very much a work in progress. The original vers...
IT総合 Apple dismisses Microsoft monopoly comparisons
A week after finding itself at the business end of a landmark lawsuit from the United States Department of Justice, Appl...
IT総合 Understanding humanoid robots
Robots made their stage debut the day after New Year’s 1921. More than half-a-century before the world caught its first ...
IT総合 Oregon signs right to repair into law
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on Tuesday signed Senate Bill 1596 into law, joining California, Colorado, Maine, Massachuset...
IT総合 Orchard vision system turns farm equipment into AI-powered data collectors
Agricultural robotics are not a new phenomenon. We’ve seen systems that pick apples and berries, kill weeds, plant trees...
IT総合 NASA’s snake robot is designed to search out life in the icy oceans of a Saturn moon
The snake robot form factor has existed for decades. In addition to the diversity it adds to the world of automation, th...