Amazon’s hardware R&D teams are keeping busy, as the tech giant is reportedly working on a pair of intriguing new projects out of its secretive Lab126 group in Sunnyvale, Calif.:… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ handshake is at least as firm as a robotic hand’s grip. I found that out for myself today at Amazon’s inaugural re:MARS conference,… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Amazon says there are now 200,000 robots working alongside 300,000 people at its distribution facilities around the world, and there’s more to come. Brad Porter, vice president… Read More
Autonomous delivery robots will soon be allowed on Washington state’s sidewalks. On Tuesday, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law that establishes new regulations for “personal delivery devices”… Read More
Well, these were certainly the droids people were looking for on a Saturday in Seattle. Members of the Pacific Northwest R2 Builders Club gathered at the Museum of Flight and… Read More
Boston Dynamics’ latest robo-creature may be cuter than its creepy robot dogs, but its potential application could nevertheless make warehouse workers wary. The Handle robot, demonstrated in a YouTube video… Read More
As a former longtime Microsoft chief technology officer, David Vaskevitch has seen most of the major computer revolutions. He’s ready for the next wave, autonomous machines, and is building a… Read More
Bank customers who have already embraced technology as a way of handling their transaction needs could be lured offline and back into a retail branch if one cute robot has… Read More
Robotics researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have developed a robotic system that can feed pieces of fruit to humans on command. The work is an early-stage project… Read More
Weasel Eggs, Mini-Taurs, LEGO Lassies, and the Cyber Cheetahs! With team names like these, you know the first annual GeekWire Robotics Cup is going to be a true geek gathering.… Read More
You can celebrate “Bring Your Kids to Work Day,” or you can be a real parental hero and bring your budding geeks to the GeekWire Bash on Thursday, March 7. We’re… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the first human explorers head for Mars, they’re likely to have a non-human judging their performance and tweaking their interpersonal relationships when necessary. NASA and outside… Read More
Oh, the poor, poor robots and smart devices. One minute we’re supposed to be scared that they’re coming for our jobs and the next minute we have to feel sorry… Read More
It’s been a year since a squadron of underwater robots was sent out to monitor the underside of Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf, and researchers report that the whole squad has… Read More
When Paul and Cathy Dietz learned they could score free tickets to the GeekWire Gala earlier this month by winning GeekWire’s ugly sweater contest, the engineers got to work. In just two… Read More
Oh, great, more Russian propaganda. Only this time it appears it was the Russians who were fooled by some fake moves. A human dressed in a robot costume reportedly danced… Read More
No doubt the proliferation of voice assistants has changed the landscape in which we live. Whether it’s Alexa or Siri or Google Assistant, we’ve come to accept voice as a… Read More
The Ewoks are going to want to run for their lives if this thing tramps through the woods of Oregon. A bipedal robot named Cassie, created at Oregon State University,… Read More
Looks like that Boston Dynamics robot is spending too much time on Instagram watching the kids do the parkour. I think parkour is French for “please stop before you break… Read More
For five years, a University of Washington spin-out called BluHaptics has been building up a business focusing on robotic control software for underwater robots — and now the Seattle startup is… Read More
Boston Dynamics’ scary-smart robots make use of sophisticated computer vision, but MIT is following a different strategy with its Cheetah 3 robot. The vision-free version of MIT’s 80-pound, Labrador-sized Cheetah… Read More
When Georgios Chrysanthakopoulos decided to launch a startup building small, weed-controlling robots, he wanted an enviro-friendly solution for flattening the leafy pests. His solution is not only non-toxic — it’s… Read More
News Brief: After a month of unloading and reloading, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule was set loose from the International Space Station today and made a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.… Read More
Tesla relied too much on robots, and not enough on humans. That’s what Elon Musk admitted on Friday, tweeting that “excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake.” Yes, excessive automation… Read More
A working paper written for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates that about 14 percent of the jobs in 32 OECD countries, including the U.S., are at high… Read More
Robotics pioneers from Carnegie Mellon University, who made their mark in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear disasters, are revisiting their heritage with a cutting-edge new… Read More
All Nippon Airways’ newly announced sponsorship of a $10 million contest for real-life avatars is just one part of a grander vision that aims to break down barriers through robotic… Read More
All Nippon Airways is sponsoring a $10 million, four-year competition to spur the development of real-life avatars that could provide telepresence over a span of dozens of miles. Registration opens… Read More
First the robots proved they can do back flips, now they’re flipping hamburgers. Flippy, the world’s first autonomous robotic kitchen assistant, made his public debut this week and will begin… Read More
Does something need checking out in your data center? Before you send out a technician, why not send out a robot? That’s the upshot of a newly published Amazon patent… Read More