Humanoid Robots at Amazon Provide Glimpse of an Automated Workplace — Bloomberg Businessweek

Another growing area is in the ability for robots to swarm, greatly amplifying the potential capabilities of any individual robot into a hive mind. Examples include the Harvard Wyss Institute’s miniature Kilobots—a swarm of a thousand robots that work collectively and assemble in shapes taken from nature that could be used on difficult, distributed

Humans abstract themselves from reality, drawn into the mirages of the metaverse. The machine, meanwhile, is learning to walk in our physical world, conquering the space we abandon. We have ceased to inhabit space.

A world where education prepares us for a future that no longer exists. Where work produces nomadic bodies, minds evaporated into the c

Boston-based Rethink Robotics has taken a different track with Baxter, a lightweight humanoid manufacturing robot that can easily be trained to perform a variety of repetitive tasks.

A video of Industrial Perception’s box-moving robot can be seen on the company’s website at http://www.industrial-perception.com/technology.html.