After attempting to sell its tech to large food service companies, cooking automation startup Jasper has shifted to direct-to-consumer. In a recent conversation, CEO Gunnar Froh told TechCrunch about the pivot and gave a general update on the company, a member of this year’s Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2022.

Researchers and companies have tried over the years to automate the chore with limited success. Using a brand new method, researchers have taught a robot to fold a record 30-40 garments per hour.

California produces about 90% of the nation's strawberries, but severe drought and worker shortages are threatening the fruit. One company is hoping to change that with the power of robots. Eric Adamson's company is behind a strawberry robotic revolution. He said they're programmed to think on their own, with cameras that sense texture and color.

British shoppers looked on with surprise and delight as a supermarket worker casually handed over groceries to the newest members of the team - delivery robots. "Where are you going?" one passer-by asked a white robot, resembling a small fridge on wheels. Another person stopped to wave it goodbye as it rolled off to drop an order to a customer's door in the central English town of Bedford.

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk blamed overreliance on factory robots for sending the electric carmaker to "production hell" four years ago, saying humans were better at certain jobs.

Medtronic placed a $2.6 million order for some of the company’s instruments and cameras, and its interest in Titan should help the smaller firm as it seeks to win approval for its device and market it globally.

Autonomous vehicle (AV) startups have raised tens of billions of dollars based on promises to develop truly self-driving cars, but industry executives and experts say remote human supervisors may be needed permanently to help robot drivers in trouble. The central premise of autonomous vehicles - that computers and artificial intelligence will dramatically reduce accidents caused by human error - has driven much of the research and investment.

We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks seriously.

A great success for robotic microsurgery not only in Münster but worldwide. A team led by Dr. Maximilian Kückelhaus and Prof. Tobias Hirsch from the Centre for Musculoskeletal Medicine at the University of Münster has carried out the first completely robot-supported microsurgical operations on humans.

Amazon has signed an agreement to acquire iRobot, makers of Roomba robot vacuums. The deal is valued at approximately $1.7 billion, and Amazon will acquire iRobot for $61 per share in an all-cash transaction. “Customers love iRobot products — and I’m excited to work with the iRobot team to invent in ways that make customers’ lives easier and more enjoyable,” says Dave Limp, SVP of Amazon Devices. It’s not immediately clear how iRobot will be integrated into Amazon once the deal is finalized and cleared by regulators, but Amazon intends to keep Colin Angle as the CEO of iRobot.

Discovering how animals learn to walk and learn from stumbling was the goal of a study carried out by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS). They created a four-legged, canine-sized robot to aid them in comprehending the specifics.

Researchers trained robots on artificial intelligence exhibited racist and sexist behavior, bringing concerns for the future of automation.

As every athletic or fashion-conscious person knows, our body image is not always accurate or realistic, but it's an important piece of information that determines how we function in the world. When you get dressed or play ball, your brain is constantly planning ahead so that you can move your body without bumping, tripping, or falling over.

Amazon has unveiled its first fully autonomous mobile robot. While it looks very much like a robot vacuum, Proteus is designed for transportation not cleaning.

Hospitality businesses look to hi-tech gadgets amid staff shortages after Covid pandemic and Brexit

Orders for workplace robots increased by 40 per cent in the first three months of 2022 amid a labour shortage in the US, according to new figures. A report by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), first cited by the Wall Street Journal, found that orders worth $1.6bn (£1.3bn) were placed between January and March.

The next raspberries you eat might have been picked by a Kraken-like four-armed robot, rather than a human. Fruit harvested by what is believed to be the world’s first raspberry-picking robot in commercial operation is now on sale in British supermarkets.

Creating a machine that can perform the delicate work of picking an apple is tricky – and farmworkers say it could be a benefit

Dyson has been getting into more and more offbeat products these days, like the Zone noise-canceling headphones that blow purified air at your face. Now, the company has revealed that it has an entire division that's secretly been developing robot prototypes that do household chores.

Venture capital firms are eager to allocate money into robotics firms in a wide range of industries from shipping to healthcare as more automation became a focus during the global pandemic. In 2021, funding globally for robotics and drone companies rose to $14.9 billion, according to PitchBook.