On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, and the potential for disease transmission is worrying, health experts say.
Category: Robots and Robotics
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Lovable Movie Robots Are Coming to Charm Your Children
The adult world is ever more full of robots. Children’s entertainment feels as if it’s working hard to make them seem adorable.
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Review: ‘We Are Your Robots,’ Still Tuning Up
In Ethan Lipton’s musings on A.I., Mozart has a place alongside humpback whales.
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Hummingbirds’ Flight Offers Clues to Improve Drones
Scientists study the flight of hummingbirds to design robots for drone warfare.
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Robots Struggle to Match Warehouse Workers on ‘Really Hard’ Jobs
The machines can load and unload trucks, move goods and do other repetitive tasks but are stymied by some, like picking items from a pile.
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Tales of 19th-Century A.I.: Don’t Fall in Love With a Singing Robot
Now we fret about chatbots. An earlier age worried about automatons, the uncanny humanoid contraptions whose voices could trigger love or mania.
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Physical Intelligence, a Specialist in Robot A.I., Raises $400 Million
The start-up raised $400 million in a funding round with investments from the likes of Jeff Bezos, Thrive Capital and OpenAI.
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When Self-Driving Cars Don’t Actually Drive Themselves
An immersive article shows readers what a New York Times reporter has tracked for nearly a decade: Robot taxis still need human help.
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A Hip-Hop Comic Book Star Comes to Life in Steel
A statue of Rappin’ Max Robot is bound for Paris. But first it’s making a stop in the Bronx.
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Teslas and Teens: Two Young Drivers Take the Wheel
Can my son learn from the example of the robot controlling the steering wheel? Or should it be the other way around?
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In Ukraine War, A.I. Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots
Driven by the war with Russia, many Ukrainian companies are working on a major leap forward in the weaponization of consumer technology.
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On Titan Submersible Anniversary, World Rethinks Deep Sea Exploration
A year after the first deaths of divers who ventured into the ocean’s sunless depths, an industry wrestles with new challenges for piloted submersibles and robotic explorers.