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Noodle peelers should probably start looking for other things to do around the kitchen – there’s just no competing with these robots. Not only are they saving restaurants in China money in wages, they can work rapidly and tirelessly for hours. We reported on the robots, invented by restaurant owner Cui Runguan, last August. Now, we’re hearing from another restaurant owner who has had one of the ro

AIBiotechnologyRoboticsComputingFutureScienceSpaceEnergyTech Robotics1 Million Robots To Replace 1 Million Human Jobs At Foxconn? First Robots Have Arrived. Foxconn, the Chinese electronics manufacturer that builds numerous mobile devices and gaming consoles, has been in the media lately because of labor issues, complaints over working conditions, rumored riots, and even suicides, all occurring in

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2009 has been an amazing year in the world of robots and Singularity Hub is here to tell you all about it!  Thats right, its time to unveil our second annual roundup of the best robots of the year.  In 2009 robots continued their advance towards world domination with several impressive breakouts in areas such as walking, automation, and agility, while still lacking in adaptability and reasoning ab

AIBiotechnologyRoboticsComputingFutureScienceSpaceEnergyTech Robot innovation continued its relentless advances during 2008. In this post we would like to showcase some of our favorite robots and robot videos of the last year or so.  This review is heavily slanted to consumer robots and research robots.  Perhaps in the future we can do a review of industrial robots.  Given the sheer number of robo