Chicago’s food delivery robots: How they work and what’s next

Coco and Serve Robotics have been operating food delivery robots in Chicago since late 2024, with 83% of residents in the 1st Ward opposing further expansion of the program due to concerns about ...

An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics

Czech ice dancers Katerina Mrazkova and Daniel Mrazek are learning the hard way that LLMs sometimes spit out straight-up ...
TASS Russian News Agency

Concerts with dances, songs of android robots offered in China

The service costs for about $145 for a 1.5-hour program, including a visiting engineer to install and configure the equipment ...
Morningstar

MassRobotics Announces 5th Cohort of Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program

Concerto Biosciences (Cambridge, MA): Pioneers of "kChip," a laboratory automation platform that constructs and measures millions of microbial combinations to map the microbial world and develop ...
TechCrunch

Robotics software maker Skild AI hits $14B valuation

Skild AI, which makes foundation models for robots, seems to have more than tripled its valuation in just seven months. The startup has raised a $1.4 billion Series C round that values it at more than ...
TechNode

X Square Robot secures $140 million in funding from ByteDance, Sequoia, and others

Embodied intelligence company X Square Robot announced today that it has completed one billion yuan ($140 million) A++ funding round. The round was led by top-tier investors including ByteDance, ...
Wall Street Journal

Even the Companies Making Humanoid Robots Think They’re Overhyped

Billions of dollars are flowing into humanoid robot startups, as investors bet that the industry will soon put humanlike machines in warehouses, factories and our living rooms. Many leaders of those ...
IEEE

Behavior Tree and Action Primitive (BTAP) Enabled Low-Code/No-Code Program for Robot Task Execution

Abstract: Robot skill reconfiguration often disrupts system continuity in dynamic flexible production systems, particularly in mixed-model assembly. To address this challenge, this article proposes ...
LancasterOnline

Millersville University robotics program receives grant from Lancaster County Workforce Development Board

Millersville University and a Lititz-based automation company will receive a nearly $350,000 grant from the Lancaster County Workforce Development Board to create a new robotics technician ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
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Humanoid robot masters dance moves

Humanoid robot PM01, created by the Chinese company EngineAI, learnt the dance routine from a professional dancing instructor. ‘I’m Going to Sue’: Graham Threatens Major Lawsuit Court Rejects DOJ ...