DeepMind: We do not see them, but robots are increasingly present within companies, which use them to perform certain tasks to save time compared to manual activities. From large-scale distribution warehouses to other logistics tasks, robots provide useful resources to

By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) - ABB has bought a company specialising in boosting the mobility of industrial robots - by using artificial intelligence and 3D vision to move around factories and warehouses. The deal to buy Sevensense, a Swiss start-up, is

World's first fully autonomous, AI-powered restaurant opens in California In Pasadena, California, the first fully automated fast-food restaurant is set to open in 2024, where robots will handle all operations. Flippy, the first robot equipped with artificial intelligence, will fry chicken nuggets and potatoes,

Google has announced a new Artificial Intelligence system that could significantly contribute to the training of robots to understand everyday tasks, such as garbage disposal. Dubbed the Robotics Transformer 2 (RT-2), this model is trained on information and images from the internet, which

By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) - At machine parts producer S&D Blech, the head of the grinding unit is retiring. With Germany's acute labour shortage leaving few candidates to take on the skilled but dirty and hazardous manual work, the company

By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) - ABB is spending $280 million on a new robotics factory in Sweden, the Swiss engineering and technology group said on Wednesday, to meet growing demand from customers moving back production from Asia to avoid supply

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Robots presented at an AI forum said on Friday they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems, and would not steal humans' jobs or rebel against us. But, in the world's first human-robot

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Dozens of robots, including several humanoid ones, will take centre stage at a conference organised by the U.N. technology agency in Switzerland this week to showcase their potential to help it reach a series of

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Nadine, a social robot powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) with human-like gestures and expressions, could have an important future role to play in tending to the sick and elderly, according to a professor who helped