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Robotics

  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    The robots preparing to get their hands on your lunch

    Technological strides have made automata soft and sensitive enough to pack bento boxes

    María Hergueta illustration of robot hands decorating a cupcake
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    Special ReportAI for Schools
    AI for Schools: Looking to the jobs of the future

    This time around, technology is shaking up the more highly-skilled white-collar roles

    A sequence of repeated images showing a man in a suit shaking hands with a woman standing on a suitcase against a blue background with wavy lines
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Tech Tonic podcast26 min listen
    China's race to tech supremacy: Shenzhen speed

    How the city of Shenzhen is helping China win the global tech race

  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    News in-depthGermany
    Germany’s robotic stores must rest on Sundays, too

    Regional chain Tegut forced to close automated shops to comply with centuries-old ban

    A man walks into a Tegut self-service store
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    Special ReportFuture of AI
    ‘Humanoid’ robot wave signals change on the production line

    AI training for manufacturing workers could minimise job losses

    The image is a collage of a quadruped robot on a rocky terrain, a female factory worker, and a robotic hand
  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    Mercedes-Benz AG
    Mercedes trials humanlike robots for ‘demanding and repetitive’ tasks

    German carmaker looks to droids as it struggles to recruit reliable workers

    Robotics in Mercedes-Benz production at its factory in  Hungary
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia back $2.6bn robot start-up

    Figure AI aims to transform labour market as it raises total $675mn in a funding round that also includes Jeff Bezos

    Figure robots
  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    Amazon.com
    Amazon to invest in start-ups that combine AI with robotics

    Franziska Bossart, head of ecommerce giant’s $1bn innovation fund, vows to increase deals aimed at automating retail network

    Franziska Bossart
  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    Lex
    The Japanese robots are coming, Europe Premium content

    EU’s tight labour market combined with tech advances mean demand for robot workers is increasing

    A Fanuc industrial robot moves a vehicle during a demonstration at a robot exhibition in Tokyo
  • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
    Ann Harrison
    Now is the time to put people before robots

    Policymakers must act to ameliorate the impact of automation on incomes

    Automated welders on a car production line
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    News in-depthJapanese business & finance
    Japan turns to avatars, robots and AI to tackle labour crisis

    Farmers, retailers and builders rethink business models as world’s fastest-ageing society runs out of workers

    An avatar at Lawsons retail store in Japan
  • Monday, 25 December, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    Naver’s Rookie robots-on-wheels test new ways of office working

    Korean tech company ready to export IT systems that direct automated workforce through the 5G cloud

    Naver’s Rookie robots act as office helpers as they roam from floor to floor in its futuristic headquarters in South Korea
  • Saturday, 9 December, 2023
    Ocado Group PLC
    Ocado to ramp up use of robotic arms to speed-pack shopping

    Online supermarket will double the number of robots with arms at Luton warehouse

    Ocado robotic arm
  • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
    Special ReportUS Manufacturing
    Robotics offers route for US manufacturing renaissance

    Advances in automation and AI provide an opportunity to compete globally

    Two persons on stage presenting a humanoid robot
  • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
    Security companies are turning to robots as the labour shortage bites

    Most androids focus on repetitive tasks, augmenting human labour, say executives

    A Knightscope security robot
  • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
    South Korean business & finance
    Chinese robot waiters fuel Korean anxiety over labour shortages

    Imported machines designed to serve diners in restaurants outnumber homemade rivals

    A artificial intelligence serving robot delivers meal during a demonstration at a restaurant on September 15 2020
  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    Special ReportAI for Schools
    The FT AI glossary

    Want to know the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning? Or the definition of God-like AI? Look it up here

  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
    Farm robots poised for growth as labour costs rise

    Humans used to be much cheaper and far more dexterous. Those advantages are eroding fast

    Weeding robot that uses computer vision and artificial intelligence
  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    Surrender your desk job to the AI productivity miracle, says Goldman Sachs

    Legal assistants and office administrators, prepare for displacement

  • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
    Leo Lewis
    The politics of deglobalisation favours the robots

    As labour supply problems persist, automation sales are hotting up

    Illustration of robots sitting in rows on a production line with one human with a helmet sitting amongst them
  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    John Thornhill
    Can generative AI’s stimulating powers extend to productivity?

    ChatGPT and similar software could prove transformative but we should temper our optimism

    Robot illustration
  • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
    Retail & Consumer industry
    AutoStore rolls out new sales plan as economic growth slows

    SoftBank-backed warehouse robotics group cuts initial cost for customers

    Karl Johan Lier and Mats Hovland Vikse
  • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
    Lex
    Blue sky thinking: exoskeletons build framework for productivity Premium content

    Devices that were developed for spinal injuries have industrial applications

    An employee of ActiveLink demonstrates the company’s PowerLoader light exoskeleton in Tokyo
  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
    Ocado Group PLC
    Ocado chief plans technology push into south-east Asia

    Tim Steiner wants to be ‘Tesla’ of ecommerce by introducing platform to more companies

    An Ocado robot-powered warehouse
  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    Amazon.com
    Amazon debuts new warehouse robot that can do human jobs

    Sparrow can pick up and sort millions of individual unpackaged products in tasks previously done by employees

    Amazon’s Sparrow
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