But robots can’t easily tell materials apart just by looking at them with the help of cameras. That’s why sifting through piles of recycled material that can include paper, plastic, and metal ...

While our desktop machines are largely limited to various types of plastic, 3D printing in other ... It uses three robotic arms to lay down metal prints of remarkable size, around eight meters ...

A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race between human runners and 21 robot models—and showed how far robots still are from being able to mimic human activity.

It’s all about speeding up the process of taking apart e-waste and getting to the materials that can be recycled much faster.

Microsoft has released a new generative model, dubbed Magma, that can autonomously control an entire robot while processing ... show the AI placing a plastic mushroom in a metal bowl and pushing ...

The robot uses artificial intelligence and cameras ... of workers remains based on human connection, rather than metal and plastic. “We’re not even looking at self-checkouts here.