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TechCrunch Mobility: A ride-sharing pioneer comes for Uber, Tesla loses more ground, and dog-like delivery robots land in Texas | TechCrunch
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! It might have been a short week, but there was still plenty of news, including another Zoox recall, an update on the Stellantis-Amazon partnership, and a few…
Introducing Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, AI models designed for robots to understand, act and react to the physical world.
Research Published 12 March 2025 Authors Carolina Parada Introducing Gemini Robotics, our Gemini 2.0-based model designed for robotics At Google DeepMind, we’ve been making progress in how our Gemini models solve complex problems through multimodal reasoning across text, images, audio and video. So far however, those abilities have been largely confined to the digital realm….
AI comes alive: From bartenders to surgical aides to puppies, tomorrow’s robots are on their way
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Humanoid robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction. Imagine a world where robots not only collaborate with us in factories but also greet us in stores, aid in surgeries and care for our loved…
The Wildest CES 2025 Robots: Blade-Wielding Lawnmowers, Lamp With Legs and More
If there’s one thing I knew I’d find at CES 2025, it’s robots. Other tech trends come and go, but robots are a staple here at one of the world’s largest tech shows. Some are cute, some are creepy, others practical and some promise the world but never quite deliver. Regardless, I have a deep, abiding…
Our unofficial, silly and meaningless CES 2025 awards, just for fun
CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show) is the biggest tech convention of the year. It helps set the stage for all the wonderful gadgets we’re going to see over the next 12 months. However, among all the quadcopters, questionably benevolent robots and devices with fancy flexible screens, there’s a lot of small things that go…
Meet the Trash-Eating Robots Cleaning Lake Tahoe and Beyond
From the beach to the water itself, machines are helping remove plastic, pollutants and invasive species. We got up close and personal with these trash-eating robots to learn about how they work and how they fight pollution beyond just cleaning. The beach-cleaning BeBot We begin with the BeBot, the fully electric, solar-powered beach-cleaning robot made…