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Maybe one day you'll have a live-in chef, there to make you meals and improve your daily life. And to take up space and judge your food choices... But until then, you can rely on the next best thing: ...

Have you ever wished you had a helper who could do anything you asked, such as cleaning, cooking, shopping, tutoring, or even guarding your house? Well, now you can, thanks to 1X, the Norwegian ...

Even cheap hardware can perform complex tasks, and AI is helping robots get smarter still. Sophisticated robots don’t have to cost a fortune. Even relatively cheap robots can do complex manipulation ...

The local Chinese government wants over 70% of major fast-food chains to incorporate automated systems by 2028. There is a Pizza Hut in a busy shopping mall in Shanghai that features a humanoid robot ...

If you look closely at it, each movement is deliberate. There’s something unnatural about its motion, but it moves with precision and efficiency. The robot tilts its torso, extends an arm, and with a ...

A robot that can cook isn’t that big a deal. After all, isn’t that technically what we’re looking at when we watch a factory machine create those perfect rows or Hershey’s Kisses? Likewise ...

In restaurants around the world, from Shanghai to New York, robots are cooking meals. They make burgers and dosas, pizzas and stir-fries, in much the same way robots have made other things for the ...