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Canada’s manufacturing sector seeks to reduce ‘repetitive labour’ through AI
People attend the 2019 Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show in a handout photo. Artificial intelligence and increased automation can help lessen the load for workers at a time when Canada faces a labour shortage in the construction and manufacturing sector. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show-Marcus Oleniuk **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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UN tech agency rolls out human-looking robots for questions at a Geneva news conference
Humanoid robot Sophia is pictured during the ITU's AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 5 2023. Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics innovators and their high-tech creations will join diplomats, industry executives, academics, policy-makers, and UN partners in Geneva from July 6-7 for ITU's AI for Good Global Summit. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
international business
Quiet effort under way to use robots to sew blue jeans
A worker uses a sanding block to distress the surface of new blue jeans at Saitex's factory in Los Angeles, California, U.S. September 21, 2022. REUTERS/Timothy Aeppel
world
Tesla previews humanoid robot, but Musk cautions it is not ready just yet
This video screen grab made from Tesla AI Day 2022 livestream shows the humanoid robot walking on stage in Palo Alto, California on September 30, 2022. (Photo by various sources / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / TESLA " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Elon Musk faces skeptics as Tesla gets ready to unveil ‘Optimus’ robot
FILE PHOTO: The logo of car manufacturer Tesla is seen at a dealership in London, Britain, May 14, 2021. REUTERS/Matthew Childs/File Photo
science
OK Google, get me a Coke: AI giant demos soda-fetching robots
A Google robot moves while carrying a bag of chips during a demonstration for members of the media at a micro-kitchen in Google’s robotics research space in Mountain View, California, U.S. August 11, 2022. REUTERS/Nathan Frandino
alberta
‘It’s not science fiction’: Calgary researchers working on rescue robots for disasters
Schulich School of Engineering professor Alejandro Ramirez-Serrano leans on one of his robots at the University of Calgary’s Unmanned Vehicles Robotarium Lab in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, June 14, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
u.s. business
North American firms order record number of robots in 2021 amid increased demand, labour shortages
FILE PHOTO: An inventory of manufacturing robots waiting to be shipped to customers are seen in a FANUC American facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan, U.S. August 11, 2021. Picture taken August 11, 2021. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
life
How robots can make aging in place more enjoyable
A graduate student in the University of Toronto’s Autonomous Systems and Biomechatronics Laboratory interacts with the robot named Pepper
investment ideas
Musk’s bets on Tesla: no human drivers this year, robots next
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory groundbreaking ceremony in Shanghai in January of 2019.
advisor etfs
Robots prove their value as the pandemic spurs growth in automation
FILE PHOTO: A robot engineered by Kuka adjusts a windscreen in a fully automated process on a model of the A-class production line of German car manufacturer Mercedes Benz at the Daimler factory in Rastatt, Germany, February 4, 2019. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File Photo
opinion
Portraying a robot on stage allows us to explore what it is to be human
Jacob Berkowitz
technology
Rent-a-robot: Silicon Valley’s new answer to the labour shortage in smaller U.S. factories
A Rapid Robotics robot moves products inside a Westec Plastics Corp warehouse in Livermore, California, U.S. on August 19, 2021. Picture taken August 19, 2021. REUTERS/Nathan Frandino
international business
Tesla likely to launch humanoid robot prototype next year, Elon Musk says
FILE PHOTO: SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk looks on as he visits the construction site of Tesla's gigafactory in Gruenheide, near Berlin, Germany, May 17, 2021. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi
world
Are robotic police dogs useful hounds or dehumanizing machines?
Spot, a robotic Honolulu police dog, stands outside department headquarters during a demonstration to reporters Friday May 14, 2021. Police officials experimenting with the four-legged machines say they’re just another tool, like drones or simpler wheeled robots, to keep emergency responders out of harm’s way. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
canada
New underwater glider to help scientists track movements of endangered right whales
In this Wednesday, March 28, 2018, photo, the baleen is visible on a North Atlantic right whale as it feeds on the surface of Cape Cod Bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass. A new marine robot will be used to help monitor and protect endangered North Atlantic right whales.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Michael Dwyer
world
Can robots offset China’s population decrease?
books
Literacy in the pandemic: We asked kids to tell us about their favourite books
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What Elon Musk’s SNL appearance and a Domino’s robot can tell us about the automobile in 2021
Andrew Clark
world
Indonesia says 53 crew of lost submarine are dead, wreckage found
This handout photo taken on April 25, 2021 and released by the Indonesia Military shows parts of the missing submarine which has been found cracked apart on the seafloor in waters off Bali. (Photo by HANDOUT / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT /AFP PHOTO/Indonesia Military/NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
Steel resolve: A hands-off approach to investment gains
Biff Matthews and Doug McCutcheon
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How BrainBox AI thought outside the box to thrive during the pandemic
Sam Ramadori, president of BrainBox AI, poses inside their offices in Montreal, Quebec, December 16, 2020. (Christinne Muschi /The Globe and Mail)
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Canadian Space Agency awards Canadarm3 contract worth $22.8-million to MDA
The Canadarm 2 reaches out to capture the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft and prepare it to be pulled into its port on the International Space Station, on April 17, 2015.
world
The robot dolphin that might one day replace captive animals at theme parks
Walt Conti, founder and CEO of Edge Innovations, uses a handheld controller to move an animatronic dolphin in a tank at the company's warehouse in Fremont, Calif., on Sept. 30, 2020.