5 posts tagged ‘robot’
What CES 2024 told us about the home robot
TechCrunch,
Few tech demos can match the spectacle of robotics. Even as the field grows increasingly prevalent in a broad range of industrial workplaces, mechatronics doing impressive things will never cease to amaze. For many, the mere presence of a robot is shorthand for the future, and for big electronics firms, it’s a quick and simple […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Should auld acquaintance be robot
This is always a strange week for us. Save for the occasional disastrous patent dispute, things are (thankfully) almost uncannily quiet in the week separating Christmas and New Year’s Day. You see a lot of reflective posts go up during this time, not only because the calendar year is coming to a close, but also because […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Marc Thorpe, Father of Robot Wars, Passes Away
Gizmodo,
Marc Thorpe, the original creator of the famed remote-controlled bot battling competition Robot Wars and godfather of today’s bot deathmatch scene, died this past Friday, Nov. 24, at the age of 77 due to complications from his long fight against Parkinson’s disease. His death was officially confirmed by his daughter… Read more...
I Cannot Take Amazon's New Robot for Business Seriously
Amazon just released a questionable-looking robot for patrolling businesses. Taking a page out of Wall-E’s design, Amazon’s new Astro for Business looks almost comical. Read more...
Amazon brings its home robot to businesses
In an acknowledgement that cracking the home robotics market is hard, Amazon is bringing its Astro robot to a decidedly more corporate audience. The company today announced Astro for Business, which repurposes Astro as a security robot for small- and medium-sized business customers. Astro for Business adds several new capabilities to Astro, including the ability […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.