While investors focus on AI chips, the real transformation is unfolding in the systems that bring automation into the physical world, from surgical robots to warehouse sensors to emerging humanoid ...

As the world shifts from AI hype to physical automation, robotics could be the next great wealth-building trend.

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Industrial automation is entering a new era with physical AI, where machine learning meets real-world motion control.

Robots and cobots are vital to supply chain work, but they are only part of the equation.

The Chinese city aims to pioneer a new age of ‘smart dining’, where automated kitchens, robot servers and data-driven menus ...

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India’s economy rebounded in September, Bloomberg Economics’ monthly GDP tracker shows — defying expectations after the US ...

The evolution of wireless power offers new approaches to several structural challenges, including labour shortages, ageing ...

Because we've seen so many robots. We've seen Robbie the Robot from the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet, Rosie the housekeeper from The Jetsons, the animated Gigantor, C-3PO and R2-D2 from late 1970s Star ...

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