AFTER THE PANDEMIC, STUDENTS AND TEACHERS WERE ACCUSTOMED TO LEARNING REMOTELY. BUT FOR ONE STUDENT, FAIRFIELD WITH A RARE CHILDHOOD DISEASE, LEARNING FROM HOME BEGAN LONG BEFORE COVID. I MET THE ...

Aaron Phelps graduated high school after a lifelong battle with SMA. Facebook/@meri.strattonphelps A student in Northern California didn’t let a rare disease stop him from graduating high school, ...

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At Automate this week in Chicago, Vention Inc. is showcasing partnerships around software-defined automation. The company has expanded support for FANUC America industrial robots, and it has optimized ...

A pilot program at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital is using robotic animals to bring joy and connection to patients with dementia. Hospital staff say the lifelike robotic cats, dogs and birds ...

At IO-AI Tech, a startup about 45 minutes north of downtown Shenzhen, China, I glimpsed a wacky new frontier of blue-collar work. Workers wearing the company's VR headsets, handheld controllers, and ...

Amazon is rolling out its next-generation warehouse robots that respond to natural language. The tech giant has laid off thousands of corporate workers amid plans to invest in AI. "Our experience of ...

PepsiCo has reimagined how operations are designed, tested, and optimized. The company embraced the industrial metaverse—not as a concept, but as a capability. By combining industrial AI with advanced ...

A growing workforce of robot controllers is teaching humanoids to move like people so they can work in factories and homes. The humanoid robots are being taught how to do basic tasks: pouring coffee, ...

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has called humanoid robots and labor automation a $40 trillion total addressable market, and on the Animal Spirits podcast, Derek Yan argued physical AI is “potentially bigger” ...

Picnic, a maker of robotic pizza machines, has shut down. According to documents filed earlier this month, the Seattle-based company entered into an assignment for the benefit of creditors transaction ...

In the last few years, India’s online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public and the number of cloud kitchens increasing. Meanwhile, startups working on ...