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There are numerous situations in which a robot doesn’t need to move quickly, but it does need to cover long distances without having to recharge its batteries. The minuscule energy-harvesting MilliMobile robot was designed for just such scenarios.Conti… Continue reading Tiny energy-harvesting MilliMobile robot has no need for batteries
Callboats has become the first company in the world to offer autonomous water taxi rides between the Finnish city of Helsinki and a nearby archipelago. These solar-charged electric boats aim to drastically cut prices and address a captain shortage.Cont… Continue reading World’s first autonomous water taxi service opens in Helsinki
At the risk of stating the obvious, even when you’ve got unlimited resources and access to the best engineering minds, self-driving cars are hard. Building a multi-ton guided missile that …read more Continue reading Teaching a Mini-Tesla to Steer Itself
The US Deputy Secretary of Defense has officially kicked off the AI drone wars, announcing a radical “Replicator” plan to put many thousands of intelligent autonomous war drones into service within 18-24 months, to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.Co… Continue reading US military plans to thwart China with 1,000s of autonomous war drones
It can really get us down watching as AIs learn to write music, poetry and technology news, but watching this clever autonomous toilet-bot mop up the bogs somehow makes it all worthwhile. It’s good to know robots are coming for the crappy jobs too.Cont… Continue reading Toilet-cleaning robot makes us feel better about all this AI business
Keeping panels clear of dust in large solar farms can be a time-consuming, wasteful and costly business. A Sicilian technology startup called the Reiwa Engine has developed an autonomous robot called SandStorm to reduce maintenance and cleaning costs b… Continue reading Autonomous cleaning robot brushes away solar panel dust as it rolls
Grass has got humanity wrapped around its little finger. We carried our favorite grasses with us from the savannahs of Africa as we spread across the world, and even tens of thousands of years later, we’re so desperate to be among it that a house doesn… Continue reading Autonomous mega-mower rips through 19 football fields on a charge
On frequently travelled waterways, it’s essential for vessel operators and local authorities to have maps of both bottom and shoreline features. A newly adapted autonomous watercraft could soon make the creation of such maps easier than ever before.Con… Continue reading High-tech watercraft autonomously 3D-maps seabeds and shorelines
While farmers have to perform a number of difficult tasks, tending to the grain stored inside grain bins (aka granaries) is particularly arduous – not to mention dangerous. That’s where the Grain Weevil grain bin management robot is designed to come in… Continue reading Grain-flinging robot goes into granaries so farmers don’t have to
For the past year, Uber-backed Serve Robotics’ wheeled robots have been delivering takeout food and groceries to customers in the Los Angeles area. The company has now announced that up to 2,000 of the bots are set to enter use with Uber Eats in other … Continue reading Uber Eats food-delivery robots set to enter use in multiple US cities