Clumsy, child-sized robot with dreams of being a doctor put to work at Astoria vein clinic
This guy makes R2D2 look cuddly. A child-sized robot with dreams of being a doctor is working its way up the ranks at a Big Apple vein treatment clinic — ...
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Robin the Robot cheering sick tots at St. Mary’s hospital in year-long pilot program: ‘She’s like my comfort’
There’s a new resident on the floor of a Queens hospital. Kids at St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital have a new staffer to help brighten their days — a four-foot tall ...
NYPD putting up nearly $400K on Wall-E style robot with ‘crazy mechanical arm’
The NYPD is shelling out nearly $400,000 for a remote controlled Wall-E look-alike robot that can roll into danger — so cops don’t have to. The PackBot 525 — built ...
This Robot Can Work Nonstop—and Change Its Own Batteries to Prove It
Robots have long been great at doing one thing over and over again. But they’ve never been great at doing that forever. Eventually, something needs to be charged, rebooted, or ...
Florida deploys furry robot rabbits to fight invasive Burmese python overpopulation
Night of the Robbits! A water management district in Florida’s Everglades is using robot rabbits to help monitor and eventually eliminate its ever-growing population of invasive Burmese pythons that have ...
Slick-talking, cowboy hat-wearing robot dubbed ‘Jake the Rizzbot’ spits Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang, leaving strangers gobsmacked
The Wild West meets Wall-E. A slick-talking, cowboy hat-wearing robot, unofficially named “Jake the Rizzbot,” stunned both Texas locals and the Internet with its proficiency in both Gen Z and ...
Humanoid Robot Turned on Handlers at Factory in ‘Dystopian’ Attack
It was like a B-level sci-fi movie come to life. In shocking video, a humanoid robot was seen attacking workers at an undisclosed Chinese factory. “This is what the machine ...
Inside the FDNY’s high-tech robot firefighting team and its mechanical dogs that go where people can’t
It’s not your grandfather’s FDNY. New York’s Bravest are increasingly leading the world in the use of mechanized firefighters to snuff out blazes in the Big Apple — and they’re ...
