Weeds may be a fast-growing headache for farmers, but a startup building machinery powered by artificial intelligence to zap them is growing pretty quickly, too. Seattle-based Carbon Robotics unveiled its… Read More
Watch your back, Seattle. The robots are hoping to follow you. Boston-based Piaggio Fast Forward is targeting the Emerald City as a particularly walkable and tech-savvy place where they hope… Read More
Zume is shutting down its Seattle engineering office amid widespread layoffs at the pizza making robotics company. The Bay Area-based startup is laying off 360 employees, or about 50 percent… Read More
The only thing more attention grabbing than the technology at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas might be the food that keeps attendees fueled at the massive conference.… Read More
Seattle startup Picnic, which makes robots for the restaurant industry, raised $5 million in a seed round led by Creative Ventures with returning investors Flying Fish Partners and Vulcan Capital.… Read More
After three years of quietly toiling away on a robotic food system, Seattle startup Picnic has emerged from stealth mode with a system that assembles custom pizzas with little human… Read More
Today’s featured stories A more ‘humanlike’ Alexa? Amazon shows off ‘home of the future’ and what’s next for voice AI Will Seattle become a one-bike town? Spin’s future in city… Read More
Vroom-vroom service! A new hotel that opened last week south of Seattle features a zippy little robot that will roam the halls and make deliveries to rooms. “Hazel, the Relay… Read More
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To err is human. To prove you’re not a computer by making a mistake is divine. That’s the premise of a patent application from Amazon, made public this week, that… Read More
I can’t even do jumping jacks without fear of pulling something. Now the robots do backflips?! In a new video posted on YouTube Thursday, Boston Dynamics further proved that the… Read More
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a double-armed, laser-guided robot that can basically 3-D print a 50-foot-wide house in less than 14 hours with almost no human… Read More
If you’re one of Amazon’s competitors, be afraid. Be very afraid. Jeff Bezos, the Seattle-based online giant’s billionaire founder, has tweeted a picture of himself at the controls of a… Read More
Don’t underestimate robots, or their ability to get around the ridiculous CAPTCHA services that are designed to keep internet scammers out. This googly-eyed robot won’t let anything keep it offline. In… Read More
We could all use a good cry right about now. If you’re feeling jaded and cynical from recent news, watch the video above and let the empathy of the innocent… Read More
Sometimes my young son talks to Siri as if she’s a real person and, admittedly, it creeps me out a little bit. But watching a robot named Sophia be interviewed… Read More
WiBotic is coming out of stealth mode. The University of Washington spin-out today revealed more details about its technology that wirelessly powers drones and other robotic devices. WiBotic, originally founded within the… Read More
The latest robot dog-like thing from Boston Dynamics — that we would totally want but be totally afraid of — is called SpotMini and in the the last day or… Read More
If Google is frightened of robots that could one day take jobs away from humans, Amazon certainly hasn’t shown the same sort of squeamishness. Bloomberg reports that Google wants to… Read More
We already know that Boston Dynamics’ robots can run with the big dogs and go dashing through the snow. But can they pick up and put away 10-pound boxes? And… Read More
A major Tokyo department store has placed a robot receptionist at the front to greet customers today. As reported by the AP, the robot “Aiko Chihira” was placed at the… Read More
If you want to figure out how to fix that nasty slice that’s been hampering your golf game for years, a robot sitting in South Seattle wants to help out.… Read More
If you happen to catch “Ender’s Game” at the theaters this weekend, there’s a little Seattle love in the form of a ridiculous surgical robot that was designed and put… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — A popular iPhone-powered robot just got a whole lot more customizable. Romotive, the TechStars Seattle-incubated robotics startup and maker of the Romo, just released an update to… Read More