Tag: robotics

• Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines

  October 22, 2025

  Tele-operators in Manila control robots and train AI for global firms, as offshoring automation creates new tech jobs and new risks in the Philippines. https://restofworld.org/2025/philippines-offshoring-automation-tech-jobs/ more ›

• Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots

  October 22, 2025

  Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE8.FwGC.6M9rnks4nUaO&smid=url-share more ›

• Reuters Econ World: Robots

  May 28, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/PH9SwAT There’s a global race for robot supremacy.  From Shanghai to Silicon Valley, companies are trying to develop humanoids that can take on physical work. China is emerging as… more ›

• Global Robot Density in Factories Doubled in Seven Years

  February 19, 2025

  New World Robotics Data by International Federation of Robotics reveal Robot adoption in factories around the world continues at high speed: The new global average robot density reaches a record… more ›

• Full Page Reload

  June 17, 2020

  https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-dog-now-available more ›

• Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program

  March 27, 2019

  In 2013, the company started an ambitious, flashy effort to create robots. Now, its goals are more modest, but the technology is subtly more advanced. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/technology/google-robotics-lab.html more ›