NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter captured images of damage to its rotors. The space agency announced that the Martian craft, the first to make a powered flight on another planet, won’t fly again.
Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what?
A year and a half after announcing its intention to acquire iRobot, Amazon’s deal is officially dead. All parties involved anticipated some level of regulatory scrutiny, but after […]
The era of the AI-generated internet is already here
The recent proliferation of low-quality, error-prone AI-generated content has already made its mark on the internet. But the bigger problem is model collapse when AI models consume each other’s data.
Chef Robotics eyes commercial kitchens with $14.75M raise
In the past several years, the kitchen has increasingly become a focal point for the world of automation. Miso, for instance, has made a name for itself with […]
Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade
Japan’s spacecraft — the Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon — ended up face-down in the regolith, a photo released by JAXA shows.
General purpose humanoid robots? Bill Gates is a believer
The robotics industry loves a good, healthy debate. Of late, one of the most intense ones centers around humanoid robots. It’s been a big topic for decades, of […]
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter just died. Here’s what happened.
NASA announced that its Mars Ingenuity helicopter died after years of successfully flying around Mars. It was the first craft to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.
Aniai bringing burger cooking robot to restaurants with $12M
Aniai, a startup that has built a burger-grilling robot, Alpha Grill, said today it has raised $12 million. The round brings its total raise up to $15 million. […]
Samsung’s EX1 wearable robot is designed to improve mobility in older adults
I tend to be wary when consumer electronics corporations dip their toes into the world of robotics. The category offers an attention grabbing shorthand for companies attempting to […]
Bluewhite rakes in $39M for robots-as-a-service that can be retrofitted to drive any tractor
Agriculture has a long heritage of being constantly disrupted by technology, an evolution that has continued to play out until today. In one of the latest developments, an […]