Retail’s next great efficiency breakthrough may come with an invoice addressed to someone else. As Walmart pushes robotics deeper into its distribution network, and Amazon brings artificial intelligence into consumers’ everyday conversations with new product launches across its Bee wearable line, the two retail giants are...
Every returned item has to be picked up, identified and sorted before it can be sold again, and that work has long resisted automation. “If a system only works on articles it has seen before, it does not work in a returns operation at all,”...
Regulatory approval of a new Johnson & Johnson tool opens a new category in surgical robotics, the MedTech company said in a presentation released Tuesday (Oct. 13) in conjunction with its third-quarter earnings call. Johnson & Johnson’s new OTTAVA table-integrated soft tissue robotic system achieved...
Clara Quakenbush, a medical assistant at Hancock Health’s Sue Ann Wortman Cancer Center in Indiana, used to make 10 to 15 trips a day carrying specimens to the hospital lab, according to an October 2025 news release from autonomous delivery company Arrive AI. She spent...
October 07, 2025
Watch more: Digital Shift: GridRaster, Dijam Panigrahi The conversation around robotics often swings between two poles: either a utopian vision of fully autonomous machines or a dystopian fear of human workers being displaced. But as the global push toward more automated, efficient and safe industrial environments accelerates, a third option is emerging. One where machines […]
August 20, 2025
Remember the metaverse? Two decades into the 21st century, Big Tech’s largest firms suddenly decided to spend hundreds of billions of dollars and countless hours of technical resources on building...
June 11, 2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is turning his attention to the next critical enabler of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution: quantum computing. “There’s an inflection point happening in quantum computing,” Huang...
May 09, 2025
Competition comes best in twos. Think Apple and Microsoft, Coke and Pepsi, McDonald’s and Burger King and many other famous pairings. It’s because a dose of healthy competition ultimately benefits...
October 28, 2026
Autonomous factory company Foundry Robotics is planning an expansion of its manufacturing footprint after raising $100 million. The company said its Series A round, announced Wednesday (Oct. 28), will allow it to build out its facility in Emeryville, California, and to accelerate deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) models into real-world manufacturing, and expand its robotics […]
October 13, 2026
Regulatory approval of a new Johnson & Johnson tool opens a new category in surgical robotics, the MedTech company said in a presentation released Tuesday (Oct. 13) in conjunction with...
October 05, 2026
RobCo, a builder of autonomous industrial robotics, topped a $1 billion valuation in an employee secondary share sale, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) press release. RobCo’s new...
September 03, 2026
Artificial intelligence cloud company Nscale has signed a major, multi-year agreement with humanoid robotics developer Figure. This deal will see Nscale provide computing resources for Figure and commit at least $3.5 billion —...
