Page 4 - Robots

Get ready to work with robots in the kitchen

Emerging new technologies are bringing deep changes in the way food is prepared, stored and disposed of.

83% Indians trust robots more than humans to manage their finances

In India, 106 per cent of business leaders saw an increase in financial anxiety and stress, and their sadness grew by 47 per cent due to coronavirus pandemic

Walmart is enlisting the help of robots to manage a surge in orders

Walmart to build more robot-filled warehouses at stores

Robotic packers, AI that reads buyer emotions: Flipkart nurtures startups

The pandemic has not only accelerated a shift to e-commerce but has also spawned startups that are building solutions relevant for the new normal, attracting the attention of big online retailers

Kogo review: This AI-powered bot is a companion that weaves your travelogue

Kogo is an artificial intelligence-powered travelogue bot that goes on a journey with you and returns with a neatly knit photo and video story of your journey, ready to go on social media

Trifo Max review: A robot vacuum cleaner that doubles up as security camera

The Trifo Max robot vacuum cleaner is not meant for deep cleaning jobs, but it is good for everyday floor cleaning from dust and dirt

Meet Asha, a robot nurse that will take care of patients like human nurses

Bengaluru's Artpark is building tech solutions to solve problems unique to India

Walmart lays off robots deployed in 500 stores, lets humans do the work

The retailer said Monday it has ended its relationship with startup Bossa Nova Robotics, which builds roving robots equipped with cameras for identifying out-of-stock and misplaced products

Pandemic speeds labour shift from humans to robots, WEF survey finds

Robots will destroy 85 million jobs at mid-sized to large businesses over the next five years as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates changes in the workplace likely to exaggerate inequalities

Maid to order: Robotic vacuums that do a great job cleaning your house

Consistent, never on leave, working without supervision. Corona times have led to spurt in automated devices that mop, scrub and vacuum your house unobtrusively

Smart games, AI & robots can revive the toy industry

New toy makers can now deploy emerging technologies. They don't have to worry about legacy investments, since most were importing from China and not manufacturing

After robots, Bengal plans to procure drones for better fire fighting

West Bengal fire services department is contemplating to procure drones after acquiring four robots as a better fire fighting gear, state minister Sujit Bose said on Friday. These four robots would be used in situations where it is too dangerous for fire brigade personnel to venture or in places not accessible to them, the fire and emergency services minister said. West Bengal is the only state that has four such robots, he said. "Now, the department is planning to introduce drones," the minister said at a valedictory session of the Safety Symposium & Exposition organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Fire audits are conducted regularly in the state, he said. Bose said that fire services department personnel also helped in the sanitisation and fumigation of COVID hospitals, quarantine centres and administrative offices across the state during the pandemic.

Milagrow expects 15-20-fold growth in robot sales in FY21 due to Covid-19

The company has its own assembly plant in Gurgaon. Milagrow has provided robots to hospitals like AIIMS, Medanta etc during the lockdown period

ABB India opens new robotic solution delivery facility in Bengaluru

Engineering major ABB India on Friday said that it has opened a new robotics facility to support the digital transformation of manufacturing in India.

From meal delivery to patrolling, Milagrow's new humanoid robots do it all

These robots include RoboDiCaprio, RoboJulia, RoboNano and RoboElf - which are specially designed to cater to hotels, hospitals, restaurants and corporate offices

RPF deploys multi-purpose robot to screen passengers amid Covid-19 outbreak

The robot, named Captain ARJUN, acronym for "always be responsible and just use to be nice", displays the temperature in a panel with a response time of 0.5 seconds, said a CR release

Service robots may increase efficiency of Covid-19 impacted hotels: Report

The researchers noted that their project completed in March 2020 just as Covid-19 broke out and as the virus rendered non-essential travel impossible

Robots expected to play a key role in post-Covid world, say experts

Hospitals and healthcare centres have started deploying robots and automated guided vehicles

Robots to stethoscope: Institutes, start-ups develop tech to fight Covid-19

IIT Roorkee and Kanpur have developed low-cost portable ventilators

Delhi students build robot to aid health workers in fight against Covid-19

Taking cue from countries like China, Thailand and Israel where a remotely-controlled robots tend patients, three Class XII students of Delhi schools have come up with their own Robot Prithvi.