This paper studies how minimum wage policy affects firms’ adoption of automation technologies. Using both state-level measures of robot exposure and novel plant-level data on industrial robot imports ...

The AgiBot X2 can do hip-hop moves, Tai Chi, and even a full split. I saw it at MWC 2026 and was captivated. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of ...

Abstract: Semi-supervised learning based on consistency learning offers significant promise for enhancing medical image segmentation. Current approaches use copy-paste as an effective data ...

Abstract: In recent years, emotion expression systems have attracted growing attention in the field of Human-Drone Interaction. However, most of these systems adopt discrete expression models, which ...

The legacy of the robot in film is a long and storied one, whether we’re considering such synthetic cinematic luminaries as Andy Kaufman’s character Val in 1981 comedy Heartbeeps, or Bernadette Peters ...

A former Citi executive predicted that there will be more AI robots than human workers in just a few decades. "You can already buy a humanoid today, which gives you a payback period versus human ...

When the streets of Los Angeles flooded with rain last week, some of the city’s residents found themselves feeling sorry for a peculiar object: a food delivery robot floundering in water and debris.

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A Chinese robotics company recently did something most tech firms would never dare attempt. Agibot put more than 200 robots on stage for a live one-hour televised event called Agibot Night. The gala ...

China's humanoid robots impressed at the Spring Festival Gala earlier this week, shifting public sentiment. The robot's abilities displayed at the event were far more advanced than those shown just ...

Eduardo B. Sandoval is a Friend of The Conversation. Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: “the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform ...

After a year-long pilot project, Toyota’s Canadian manufacturing subsidiary has contracted seven humanoid robots to work in a plant building RAV4 SUVs under a robots-as-a-service deal. “After ...