DoorDash’s New Delivery Robot Rolls Out Into the Big, Cruel World
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DoorDash’s New Delivery Robot Rolls Out Into the Big, Cruel World

App-based companies have publicly spoken for years about the money-saving potential of autonomous vehicles. These firms have poured billions of dollars into recruiting and managing the independent contractors who do the delivering and driving for them, and millions more ensuring they’ll stay independent contractors and not employees. What if the firms could skip all that?...

Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid robot
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Famed roboticist says humanoid robot bubble is doomed to burst

Renowned roboticist Rodney Brooks has a wake-up call for investors pouring billions into humanoid robot startups: you’re wasting your money. Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexterity by showing them videos of humans doing tasks. In a new essay,...