Backers of the “social robot” Jibo received disappointing news last week as Jibo CEO Steve Chambers announced another shipping delay for customers who backed the project on Indiegogo in 2014.… Read More
You may soon see small six-wheeled self-driving delivery robots strolling around the streets of Seattle. Starship Technologies, an Estonia-based company started by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, is meeting… Read More
Sarcos Robotics, a maker of industrial robots, has secured $10.5 million in funding from investors including Microsoft, Caterpillar Ventures, and GE Ventures. The company announced the funding today, and a… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. – In a sixth-floor executive suite here, Deepak Savadatti’s robot has its own office with a view. Savadatti himself may be sitting in front of a computer hundreds of miles… Read More
Jibo is having trouble. The round, cute “social robot,” which raised more than $3.7 million on Indiegogo, was originally scheduled to be released “Holiday 2015.” Jibo still has not yet shipped. Now,… Read More
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both promising to bring good-paying jobs back to America, but analysts say neither of them has addressed one of the biggest challenges looming… Read More
Thursday night’s horrific Dallas shooting ordeal may well mark the first time police ended a standoff with a suspect by sending in a killer robot, but it almost certainly won’t… Read More
It’s not unprecedented for a Microsoft CEO to write a book. Remember “The Road Ahead”? Now Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is following in Bill Gates’ footsteps with his own book, called… Read More
Here’s some drone news worth buzzing about. Researchers have developed insect-sized flying robots that have the ability to perch on objects using static electricity in order to conserve energy and… Read More
Pianists, surgeons, typists, gamers and baton-twirlers all learn to use their hands more skillfully as they ply their trade, but what about robots? Researchers at the University of Washington say they’ve… Read More
Amazon’s acquisition of the robotics company Kiva Systems in 2012 has helped the retail giant efficiently ship almost any product on earth to just about anyone. But those robots are pretty… Read More
We’ve already seen robots that get you a beer and coffee machines that start brewing when you text. Now, those two glorious ideas are coming together with the Texterator, a… Read More
A group of friends originally from Bellevue, Wash., many of whom also attended the University of Washington together, are approaching their $10,000 goal on Kickstarter to fund a board game. In just about a… Read More
Humanity is sitting on the cusp of an artificial intelligence boom, as the technology transitions from rare and experimental to ubiquitous and standard. Society is grappling with what it means… Read More
Dogs are not dummies and robots can be scary. That’s the takeaway from a new video uploaded to YouTube by venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, which features a terrier barking at a quadruped robot… Read More
This year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a New Year’s resolution to build an artificial intelligence that helps out at work and home. We haven’t heard much about Zuckerberg’s progress… Read More
Experts expect self-driving cars to make the roads much safer, and driving much more convenient. But what will they do to the environment? A newly published study suggests that, under… Read More
You’ve got to hand it to the roboticists at the University of Washington: They’ve built a robotic hand modeled so closely on human anatomy, it’s almost scary. The hand uses… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The robot revolution may put half of us humans out of a job by 2045 – and if that happens, what are the politicians going to do about… Read More
If agriculture conjures images in your mind of a farmer sweating atop an old tractor or rusty sprinklers watering crops, it’s time to rethink that impression. More than a century after… Read More
OAKVILLE, Wash. – The Austin family’s cows seem a lot more contented since the robots took over the milking. It’s the humans, not the cows, who have had to make the biggest… Read More
Legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog has a new documentary set for release which explores “one of the biggest revolutions we as humans are experiencing.” His examination of the Internet, our connectivity,… Read More
A new consumer electronics venture, based in the Seattle region, is launching this week with a factory-direct model — selling straight to technology consumers online, and promising prices significantly lower than those for similar… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state Sen. Marko Liias suspects that ticket bots are creating skyrocketing prices for the July 26 Adele concert at Seattle’s Key Arena — and he is… Read More
Santa Claus is coming to town, pulled by robot reindeer. But is that a promise, or a threat? To celebrate the holidays, Boston Dynamics put out a video that brings… Read More
At our recent GeekWire Summit, we made a point of asking two consistent questions as part of our broader conversations with leaders in the fields of technology, business and science:… Read More
If the Monday a.m. blues got you down, this piece might not help. According to this report from BBC Tech, the jobs at greatest risk of automation in the near… Read More
Last month, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak and hundreds of others wrote a letter that detailed their concerns for autonomous weapons controlled by robots. That begged the question: Should everyday… Read More
The battle of paying a $15 minimum wage — especially to workers in the fast-food industry — is stoking the fires of companies asking if they need those human workers at… Read More
It might be every science geek’s dream come true — robots that get you beer. MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory engineers have created “BeerBots,” a set of robots… Read More