Set in Miami in the year 3050, “Positive Vibration Nation,” a rock guaguanco opera created by Sol Ruiz and co-commissioned by Miami Light Project, comes to the Miami Beach Bandshell on Nov. 2. Maria ...

Restocking inventory and mopping floors are probably the types of jobs you’d want robots to carry out. It’s a menial and unrewarding activity, and it takes a fair bit of time. 7-Eleven estimates that ...

At CHI 2025 in Yokohama, Japan, the annual ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, where researchers identify salient problems in interaction design and bring them into sharp relief t0 ...

Japan ’s biggest convenience store chain has started trials of robot workers in an effort to address a serious worker ...

Abstract: We investigate the problem of teaching a robot manipulator to perform dynamic non-prehensile object transport, also known as the ‘robot waiter’ task, from a limited set of real-world ...

A Fells Point restaurant's experiment with a robot waiter didn't quite pan out, but the owner remains open to future AI innovations in the dining industry. 'When AI Meets Main Street': BBJ explores AI ...

Researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Waseda University, and Fujitsu have developed a novel way to make robots move smoothly and efficiently using quantum computing. Usually, when a robot ...

One of the defining characteristics of early successful food robots has been focus. Whether it’s the Flippy burger-flipping robot, Bear’s front-of-house robotic waiters, or the Autocado avocado-coring ...

The advancement in technology can be seen as good news or bad, depending on your point of view. As the use of Artificial Intelligence continues unabated and threatens to take away the jobs of the ...

Bizarre imagery flooded newsfeeds this week as word spread about a new "pregnancy robot" in development in China. The images featured plump human babies curled inside the bellies of chrome-plated ...