Cota is among more than 900 seniors who have received a free ElliQ through a New York State Office of Aging (NYSOFA) program that uses technology to combat social isolation and loneliness among older adults.

Amazon cut at least 100 white-collar jobs in its robotics division as it continues restructuring, even while expanding its warehouse robot fleet and AI spending.

Nvidia and ABB Robotics are partnering to produce a new generation of autonomous industrial robots for clients including Apple supplier Foxconn, which is trialling the machines. The companies said on Monday they were integrating ABB’s robot training software with Nvidia’s Omniverse simulation platform to produce robots that can be trained in virtual environments and be used by a range of industries.

Researchers at Kyoto University have developed Buddharoid. This is an AI-powered humanoid robot designed to act like a Buddhist priest, amid Japan’s priest shortage.

Qualcomm, which purchased microcontroller board manufacturer Arduino last year, just announced a new single-board computer that marries AI with robotics. Called the Arduino Ventuno Q, it uses Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ8 processor along with a dedicated STM32H5 low-latency microcontroller (MCU).

The era in which artificial intelligence can help teach children has arrived in a Hialeah school.

Geoffrey Hinton, the British-Canadian computer scientist widely known as the “Godfather of AI,” has raised his estimate of the probability that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the next three decades.

Nvidia and Google are among a handful of major tech giants developing models for robotics and so-called "phyiscal AI."