You: “Alexa, I’m lonely.” Amazon Alexa: “Sorry to hear that. Talking to a friend, listening to music or taking a walk might help. I hope you feel better soon.” ...

Any future robotic device would clearly rely on AI for its internal smarts. In a Power On newsletter from April, Gurman said that Apple has been exploring the development of personal robots.

If you come out of a coma in 2026, this is the machine you might see staring down at you Taiwanese tech manufacturer Foxconn ...

We've all read for years that mobile assistant robots would help us to take over repetitive and boring work. Surprisingly, there are very few robots able to do this. This is why the German ...

As any techie could tell you, smart home assistants are all the buzz right now, with Amazon.com, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others with significant stakes in the market.While the current ...

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So there's a desire for robots that can help with at least one of the workloads in the house. However, industry leaders argue that part of Roomba's success is its accessibility.

The beauty of the system, Perchik tells me, is that you'll still use Any.do like a standard to-do list. Only now, whenever the service's algorithms deem a task "actionable," a dot pops up next to it.

Engineers at the Fraunhofer Italia Innovation Engineering Center (IEC) in Bolzano, Italy, are developing software that would enable a robot assistant to help on construction sites. Based on the ...

A mobile autonomous robotic lab assistant developed by researchers from the University of Liverpool is 1,000 times faster than human researchers at performing experiments. It uses LIDAR to ...

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