Business News
Jeff Bezos Pilots a Giant Robot
It was 13-feet tall and made him feel like Sigourney Weaver.
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Entrepreneurs
This Robot Will Carry Your Stuff and Follow You Everywhere
Meet Gita, the cargo-carrying robot.
By Rose Leadem
Business Accounting
Bill Gates Believes Robots That Steal Jobs Should Pay Taxes
If you fear automation, listen to this billionaire's idea.
By Rose Leadem
Business News
Do Robots and AI Deserve Rights?
A robot ethicist from MIT's Media Lab helps us parse what our treatment of tech says about us.
Entrepreneurs
Elon Musk’s Vision of the Future Includes Cyborgs
The Tesla founder thinks it's the only way for humans to keep up in an AI world.
By Nina Zipkin
Business News
Hyundai Shows Off Wearable Robots to Help Paraplegics, Elderly
Hyundai's Medical Exoskeleton (H-MEX) looks like a high-tech back/leg brace combination device, plus forearm crutches.
Tech
The 5 Panels Entrepreneurs Must Attend at This Year’s CES
Our recommendations for the talks that will give you the pulse on the future of entrepreneurship.
Tech
Robots Will Play a Bigger Role in the Coming Years, But Not as Big as You Think
Executives from Softbank Robotics and iRobot Corporation share their insights into the year's biggest trends in the field and their predictions for the immediate future.
Business News
Samsung Introduces Voice-Controlled Robot Vacuum
When paired with an Amazon Echo, you can control the POWERbot VR7000 using voice commands.
Business News
Amazon Alexa Data Wanted in Murder Investigation
Amazon's voice assistant may provide clues in an Arkansas case in which a man was found dead in a hot tub.
By Tom Brant
Business News
Is a Robot the ‘New Entrepreneur’?
Hint: Check-out jobs are threatened. But service jobs with distinct cognitive skills are safe. "Terminator 2" isn't here yet.
By Sam Madden
Building a Business
Cuban to Trump: The U.S. Needs to Invest in Robotics to ‘Win’
The 'Shark Tank' investor writes in a blog post that the government should spend $100 billion to create and build robots.
Business News
New Zealand Passport Robot Tells Applicant of Asian Descent to Open Eyes
Facial recognition software mistakenly registered his eyes as being closed.
By Reuters
Building a Business
These Professionals Are Excited About the Rise of Workplace Robots
A recent study reveals how new technologies can boost employee productivity.
By Rose Leadem
Building a Business
I Had a Conversation With a Robot, and It Taught Me Something About Humanity
An executive at the company that created Pepper assured me that it (she?) won't steal our jobs.
By Nina Zipkin
Business News
Elon Musk: AI Could Destroy the Internet
Let's be honest, that's a surprise to no one.
By Nina Zipkin
Building a Business
Google Home Review: The Assistant Steps Into Your Living Room
OK Google, what can Home do for me?
Building a Business
5 Reasons Your Creativity Is Your Greatest Asset
The threat of artificial intelligens and robots replacing workers should be incentive to follow your passions.
Tech
This Robot May Be Perfect for Lazy People Who Hate Cooking
A U.K.-based startup has launched a crowdfunding campaign for a machine with arms that learns recipes.
Business News
Even With Rising Wages, Robot Revolution Skips Restaurants
Silicon Valley is nurturing an appetite for risk and experimentation in the kitchen.
By Reuters
Buying a Franchise
6 Franchises Making Our Lives Easier With Robots and Drones
From getting Slurpees delivered to our door to a robot bringing us water to our hotel room, here are six chains using technology to deliver better and faster service.
By Rose Leadem
Business News
Toyota Unveils Robot Baby to Tug at Maternal Instinct in Aging Japan
Toyota plans to sell Kirobo Mini, which blinks its eyes and speaks with a baby-like high-pitched voice, for 39,800 yen ($392) in Japan next year.
By Reuters
Building a Business
Why Parent Your Kids When This Robot Nanny Can Do the Job for You?
Say hello to iPal, the cold, hard stand-in parent your kid has always wanted.
Tech
This Startup Employs Robots That Bake Pizza En Route for Delivery
Its co-founder may have this skeptical New Yorker convinced.
Building a Business
Google, Facebook and Other Tech Titans Form ‘Partnership on AI’
Apple, however, is missing from the list.
Business News
British Philosophers Consider the Ethics of a Robotic Future
A standards document offers guidelines on robot-human relationships and more.
By Tom Brant
Business News
Lowe’s Introduces LoweBot, a New Autonomous In-Store Robot
The LoweBot speaks multiple languages, and will be deployed to 11 stores to help guide home improvers to find items in store.