“In the last year or two, people have taken advances in AI and machine learning and said ‘we can make a real business case here, whether it’s lowering costs or improving efficiency or whatever,” says Matthew Johnson-Roberson, director of…
California governor Gavin Newsom worked late last night, vetoing a law that would have banned self-driving trucks without a human aboard from state roads until the early 2030s. State lawmakers had voted through the law with wide margins,…
Israeli medical robotics company XACT Robotics has announced to its 65 employees that it is shutting down and laying off everybody. Most employees were unaware of the troubled state of the company and some were even hired…
Elastocapillary rolling transfer weaves soft film to spatial helical structure on curved substrates. Credit: Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh9232…
This interview is part of the Inside the Mind of the CEO series, which explores a wide range of critical decisions faced by chief executives around the world.
Robert Playter’s appointment as CEO of Boston Dynamics in 2019 came at an…
A fleet of robot ships bobs gently in the warm waters of the Persian Gulf, somewhere between Bahrain and Qatar, maybe 100 miles off the coast of Iran. I am on the nearby deck of a US Coast Guard speedboat, squinting off what I understand is…