ICON Technologies Inc., which builds homes using 3D printing, is laying off 114 people, according to a WARN letter filed with the Texas Workforce Commission. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the news to TechCrunch, providing a statement that ICON had “recently made a difficult decision to re-align” its team and team size “to focus […]
CES 2025 has been a mixed bag for humanoid robots. The form factor had a watershed moment, as images of the top players flanked NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang during his Monday keynote. Of these, Agility’s Digit also showed up alongside a miniature conveyer belt at a closed access NVIDIA booth. It was a nice return
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Like anything in life, the secret to becoming Steph Curry or Sabrina Ionescu is practice, practice, and more practice. You practice when it’s too hot, too cold, you’re tired, or you’re sick. Finding a willing one-on-one partner through all of that is, however, another question entirely. The good news is that later this year, you
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Roughly two and a half years after their patent battle began, Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics have settled the dispute on reasonably amicable terms. The robotics firms on Wednesday issued a joint release announcing the end of the dispute. “We are pleased to resolve this dispute on mutually advantageous terms,” Boston Dynamics Chief Legal Officer
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Yukai Engineering is no stranger to cute, but somewhat odd, little robots. And at CES 2025, they revealed Mirumi, a robot that’s made to “delight bystanders” by turning its head to greet them. The robot has a few different modes to choose from, between a comfort mode in which it looks around after not being
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At CES 2025, Roborock unveiled a feature that it hopes could help its vacuums dethrone the Roomba: an arm. This is Saros Z70, the autonomous vacuum that comes equipped with a five-axis arm that unfolds from the top of the vacuum to pick up obstacles using onboard cameras and sensors. The S70 starts shipping on
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Nvidia continues its expansion into robotics software with Mega an Omniverse Blueprint designed specifically for robotic fleet management at scale. The offering, announced at CES Monday, specifically targets warehouses, a space that saw massive robotics adoption during the pandemic. Even so, most still lack significant automation. Companies like Locus Robotics have made significant headway in
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Monday’s Toyota CES press conference was all about Woven City, the carmaker’s planned community at the base of Mt. Fuji. Robotics will undoubtedly play a major role in the company’s bid to automate as much of the 2,000-person city as possible, including autonomous cars and drones designed to chaperone people back home after dark. One
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Tech companies love rolling a robot out onstage. These systems serve as shorthand for consumer electronics brands branching out into more bleeding-edge category. On occasion we get an Amazon Astro or Sony Aibo that actually hit in the market in some form. More often than not, however, the robots only exist in the land of
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John Deere has a bunch of new products that it just showed off at CES 2025, including an electric robot lawnmower meant for commercial-grade landscaping. Powered by a 21.4kWh battery — roughly a quarter the size of what you’d find on a passenger EV — the company says the mower is supposed to be able
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