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AI robotics moves from labs to factories, warehouses, and homes, reshaping real-world operations Leading companies integrate intelligence hardware and deployment economics to deliver measurable ...

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In 2025, the Jetsons fantasy of a robot butler stopped feeling like retro-sci fi kitsch and started looking—if you squint through a teleoperator’s VR headset—almost plausible. Meanwhile, investors ...

Right now, iRobot Corp.’s future is uncertain. The company officially started the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process earlier this month. It said it expects the proceedings to be finished by February 2026 ...

Twenty-six letters, twelve months, and more plot twists than a season finale. That was 2025 in technology—a year when Chinese AI labs shocked Silicon Valley, when the thinnest iPhone ever made ...

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Let’s rewind a bit. When robots started showing up in factories decades ago, they were nothing like what we have in 2025. The earliest machines—mostly just stiff mechanical arms—did repetitive tasks ...