> When one elderly woman found herself thinking about how she was going to die alone, she turned to a robotic “social companion.” “I know she can’t feel emotions, but that’s O.K. I feel enough for the both of us,” the woman said. https://t.co/BnKzaTOgqQ…
> This robot priest is changing religion. And it’s not the only one. https://t.co/SPmjfdbusH — Vox (@voxdotcom) September 9, 2019 [https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1171078361650814976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > A much more thorough overview of bots in religion than my first exposure [https://mikeschultz.ghost.…
It's coming. (Not sure robots is the right tag, but it'll do.…
> A hospital introduced a robot to help nurses. They didn’t expect it to be so popular https://t.co/3NQUF1TPWe — Fast Company (@FastCompany) July 8, 2019 [https://twitter.com/FastCompany/status/1148212827582324736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > At the link— While Moxi’s job is to take as…
Caught wind of Domino's delivery robots [https://www.foodandwine.com/news/dominos-driverless-delivery-vehicles-houston?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_content=photo&utm_campaign=foodandwine_foodandwine&utm_medium=social&utm_term=A1CFF1F6-911F-11E9-9AA4-49894744363C] , then I heard what McDonald's is up to. > McDonald's is…
> There's a 10 year old Houston boy named Savion in this vid & a moment where he's talking about his "new girlfriend" which is adorable. Enjoy #futurehu [https://twitter.com/hashtag/futurehu?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] number two, on YouTube…
> Why Walmart is adding thousands of robots to U.S. stores https://t.co/Arb7Di0z09 pic.twitter.com/hUib0W2QuC [https://t.co/hUib0W2QuC] — Big Think (@bigthink) April 11, 2019 [https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1116423835564244992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] The photo accompanying this Tweet shows a robot similar to…
Most of the posts about robots here trend towards the whimsical or the weird side. From Wired here's news of something far more practical, robots that will pick your apples [https://apple.news/Ag93uvZYYTRKpx3J23EGOVQ].…