News & Reviews:   ROBOT

Recently, Sony announced that its robot had become the first to defeat an elite ping pong player. That said, what should you know about it?

Recently, HONOR made a robot that broke the world record for a Half-Marathon event in Beijing. That said, what should you know about it?

Tiangong Ultra became the first robot winner of the Yizhuang human-robot half-marathon event in Beijing last Saturday. The robot completed the half marathon in 2 hours and 40 minutes, much slower than the human winner, who took 1 hour and 2 minutes. So, what should you know about it?

We bet that everyone would love to have a Dyson product at home, and that shows how the brand is doing an exceptional job of creating these household products. However, rather than making these products that need a human to operate them, the brand showcases something even more exciting in a video that presents the automated robots helping with various household chores.

It seems that the Kayu Nasi Kandar’s Facebook page has recently posted a video that shows the restaurant employing robot servers to serve food to their customers. With that in mind, it minimizes human contact between the customer and the server reducing the risk of infection.

MR DIY has recently announced that they have started employing programmable robots at their e-commerce warehouse in order to triple their productivity so that they can process orders much faster. Not only that, but it also gives those who are interested in robotics and automation to learn and expand their knowledge is beneficial to their career.

In the future, robots are going to be around to help with a lot of things, even 'manning' charging stations. Volkswagen has been working on such a robot, which was first unveiled as a concept last year. However, it now has an actual working prototype that was revealed recently.

With technology getting more and more advanced, we do know that some of the human works are starting to be replaced by robots. However, it is surprising to find out that actors can be replaced by robots as well. A sci-fi movie named 'b' is going to be the first to cast an AI robot to perform on the silver screen.

While we’re staying home, let’s not forget about the medical frontlines are still fighting every day to save as many lives as possible, so shout out to them! However, it looks like there’s a new technology that can lighten up their burden a little, and it’s a robot. A team from the International Islamic University Malaysia (UIA) has developed a robot with model MediBot V1-U, and they’re getting it prepared to join the Covid-19 fight.

It seems that the Business Breakthrough University in Tokyo, Japan has recently held a virtual graduation ceremony using a mobile robot called “Newme” as well as Zoom, a video conferencing tool which became really popular recently. This isn’t the first time someone hosted a virtual ceremony, as there were few occasions where ceremonies like this were held in games such as Animal Crossing: New Horizon and Minecraft.