robotics

Toyota to spend $1bn on artificial intelligence project in Silicon Valley

Posted in Software on 7th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller

The investment, which will be spread over five years, comes on top of $50m Toyota announced earlier for artificial intelligence research at Stanford and MIT.

Skype founders invent self-driving robot that can deliver groceries

Posted in Business on 3rd Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller

The new self-driving robot, Starship, promises to shake up the local delivery market.

New batch of Pepper robots sell out in 1 minute

Posted in Business on 2nd Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller

Softbank has upgraded the Pepper robot to memorize and store data on human responses by using cloud technology-based artificial intelligence applications.

Service robots are finally starting to catch on

Posted in Hardware on 1st Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller

One of the new categories to emerge in the last year is the humanoid helper, kiosk robot or retail robot.

Samsung aims to build bots who work for less than Foxconn staffers

Posted in Hardware on 21st Oct, 2015
by Alex Muller

South Korea's target is smartphones and other kit that currently requires human hands.