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Right now, you can score the Amazon Fire Kids Tab 7 for almost 40% off. You can also get an impressive 50% off the Shark AI Ultra robot vacuum. Finally, you can grab the Bluetti portable power station for $80 off, all at Amazon. I’ve been tracking the prices
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Uber, the ride-hailing giant said on Monday that it is teaming up with Zipline, the autonomous drone-delivery firm, to fly Uber Eats orders to customers across the United States, sweetened by an undisclosed strategic investment. It is a striking vote of confidence in a company that has spent the past
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Unitree Robotics, the Hangzhou company that has done more than anyone else to turn Chinese humanoid robots into a spectator sport, is due to begin trading on Shanghai’s STAR Market on 19 August, according to Reuters. The listing makes it the first general-purpose humanoid maker to go public on
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Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinout building software that lets excavators and diggers run themselves, has raised a $200m Series A led by SoftBank, a round it bills as the largest ever in construction robotics. The deal confirms reports that surfaced earlier that Masayoshi Son’s conglomerate was circling the
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Forward-looking: Researchers have built miniature boats and flying devices that turn sound into thrust. Their 3D-printed cavities respond to specific frequencies, producing motion without motors, gears, or magnetic parts. The work points to a
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An alcoholic drink will give you a buzz, but if someone laced it with something dangerous, a new poison-snooping patch will buzz your skin to warn you. It can also detect heavy metals in water and toxic aerosols, and can work as an e-skin for robots. Erim Uzunoğlu, first author
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Serve Robotics, the sidewalk-delivery company that spun out of Uber, has added Grubhub to its roster of partners, a move that quietly turns it into something close to the neutral plumbing of America’s food-delivery robot business. Through a deal with Wonder, Grubhub’s parent, Serve’s cooler-sized bots will
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The greatest invention in pet tech in recent years is the litter robot. A machine that scoops your kitties’ poop so you don’t have to — what else could a cat owner possibly want? How about insights into your kitty’s litter box usage that could flag health issues? Sign
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* The Honor Robot Phone is attracting lots of attention on social media * Commenters are calling its built-in gimbal an "innovation" and arguing that customers "are tired of seeing the same phone every year" * Some critics argue it could be fragile or hard to clean Earlier this
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A systems-architecture case for funding Universal Basic Income through a real-time transaction levy. Not the printing press. When Elon Musk sat down with The Economist's Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, the conversation turned to something we have all come to think about. The future of work and artificial intelligence.
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MIT researchers built a planning system called VLASH that lets a robot start figuring out its next move before it finishes the current one. Most robot control systems don't work that way. They finish a motion, stop, replan, then move again. Those pauses are why robots look jerky,
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The Tesla Optimus, also known as the Tesla Bot, is one of an entire catalogue of humanoid robots that manufacturers have unveiled in the last few years. Humanoid robots may look the part, and while they may be a few years away from maturation, executives like Tesla CEO Elon Musk
