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Amazon to start testing drones that will drop prescriptions on your doorstep
File - The Amazon logo is displayed at a Best Buy store in Pittsburgh on Jan. 23, 2023. The Federal Trade Commission's long-awaited antitrust case is the agency's most aggressive move yet to tame the market power of Amazon, a company that's become synonymous with online shopping and fast deliveries.(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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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)
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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)
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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
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This photo taken on November 7, 2022 shows a man playing table tennis with a robotic coach at the Omron stand during the 5th China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
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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
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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
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Patent claim by Calgary warehouse robot-maker Attabotics should be dismissed, U.S. rival says
Scott Gravelle, the CEO of Attabotics Inc., describes how his robots work at his robotic logistics company based in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. Jeff McIntosh for The Globe and Mail
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Canadarm maker MDA’s CEO touts rapidly growing space economy
Mike Greenley, CEO of MDA, is photographed in the company’s DREAMR lab at the company’s Brampton facility, on April 6, 2021. The lab emulates Dextre (a manipulator for performing fine tasks) for performing and other future robotic servicing missions. MDA is best known for manufacturing the Canadarm which has been used during the NASA shuttle missions, and is employed on the International Space Station (ISS). Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
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Otto Motors, Ontario-based maker of autonomous vehicles for factories, raises US$29-million
Clearpath, a robotics company, pics in the warehouse for Supply Chain series. Product photos include the OTTO self-driving vehicles. The large one is the OTTO 1500, designed for heavy-load material transport. The smaller one is the OTTO 100, designed for light-load material transport.
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Ventilator from old car parts? Afghan girls pursue prototype
In this Wednesday, April 15, 2020, photo, Somaya Farooqi works with a team of five young girls is developing cheap ventilators from Toyota car spare parts to help the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan faces the pandemic nearly empty-handed. It has only 400 ventilators for a population of more than 30 million. So far, it has reported just over 700 coronavirus cases, including 23 deaths, but the actual number is suspected to be much higher since test kits are in short supply. (AP Photo/Hamed Safarazi)
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