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  • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
    South Korean business & finance
    Chinese robot waiters fuel Korean anxiety over labour shortages

    Imported machines designed to serve diners in restaurants outnumber homemade rivals

    A artificial intelligence serving robot delivers meal during a demonstration at a restaurant on September 15 2020
  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    FT GuidesArtificial intelligence in business: an explainer
    The FT AI glossary

    Want to know the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning? Or the definition of God-like AI? Look it up here

  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
    Farm robots poised for growth as labour costs rise

    Humans used to be much cheaper and far more dexterous. Those advantages are eroding fast

    Weeding robot that uses computer vision and artificial intelligence
  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    Surrender your desk job to the AI productivity miracle, says Goldman Sachs

    Legal assistants and office administrators, prepare for displacement

  • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
    Leo Lewis
    The politics of deglobalisation favours the robots

    As labour supply problems persist, automation sales are hotting up

    Illustration of robots sitting in rows on a production line with one human with a helmet sitting amongst them
  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    John Thornhill
    Can generative AI’s stimulating powers extend to productivity?

    ChatGPT and similar software could prove transformative but we should temper our optimism

    Robot illustration
  • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
    Retail & Consumer industry
    AutoStore rolls out new sales plan as economic growth slows

    SoftBank-backed warehouse robotics group cuts initial cost for customers

    Karl Johan Lier and Mats Hovland Vikse
  • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
    Lex
    Blue sky thinking: exoskeletons build framework for productivity Premium content

    Devices that were developed for spinal injuries have industrial applications

    An employee of ActiveLink demonstrates the company’s PowerLoader light exoskeleton in Tokyo
  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
    Ocado Group PLC
    Ocado chief plans technology push into south-east Asia

    Tim Steiner wants to be ‘Tesla’ of ecommerce by introducing platform to more companies

    An Ocado robot-powered warehouse
  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    Amazon.com
    Amazon debuts new warehouse robot that can do human jobs

    Sparrow can pick up and sort millions of individual unpackaged products in tasks previously done by employees

    Amazon’s Sparrow
  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    John Thornhill
    Forget the humanoids — it’s industrial robots that will transform the world

    Societies need all the imagination of science fiction writers to use proven functional skills rather than replicate our own

  • Saturday, 1 October, 2022
    Tesla Inc
    Elon Musk unveils Tesla’s humanoid robot prototype

    Chief executive says ‘Optimus’ should soon be able to walk and one day will carry out a range of jobs

    Optimus robot, on stage in Palo Alto, California
  • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
    LexTesla Inc
    Tesla: share price recovery depends on revenue, not robots Premium content

    Futuristic robots are not what investors in the electric car maker care about

  • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
    Explainer14 min
    Will Tesla's Optimus robot become a reality? | FT Tech

    Elon Musk wants to put humanoid robots in his factories - and in your home

  • Sunday, 18 September, 2022
    Leo Lewis
    The era of the weak yen should be boom time for robots

    It is now cheap for Japanese companies to ‘reshore’ production, but automation is key

    Illustration of the Japanese yen as an automated factory production line. The weak yen is pushing Japan towards the brink of its next robot revolution
  • Saturday, 3 September, 2022
    Lex
    Fast food restaurants: high wages are helping robot chefs Premium content

    As labour costs rise, cyborgs are finding their way into the kitchen

    Miso’s Flippy robotic arm next to deep fat fryers
  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    SoftBank-backed warehouse robotics group doubles on trading debut

    Symbotic executive eyes automation trend due to wage costs and labour shortages

    Truck trailers at a Walmart distribution centre
  • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
    Ouch! Robotic hand with smart skin recoils when jabbed in the palm

    Glasgow university engineers develop new generation of ultra-sensitive electronic skins

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Technology sector
    What it’s like to ride first and only public robotaxi in US

    Waymo’s self-driving car offers a smooth but time-consuming ride

  • Monday, 31 January, 2022
    Special ReportFuture of AI and Digital Healthcare
    Robots give surgeons a helping hand

    Machines are common in US hospitals but Europeans remain more sceptical

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
    Do Tesla robots dream of infinite planetary resources?

    Robot slaves will have to compete with cheap human labour, not the other way around.

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    FT Magazine
    A remote village, a world-changing invention and the epic legal fight that followed

    The twisted tale of the battle between Norway’s AutoStore and the UK's Ocado

  • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
    Ocado Group PLC
    Ocado deploys lightweight robots in battle with delivery start-ups

    Online grocer unveils new technology to help win customers and compete with the likes of Getir and Gorillas

    Ocado’s previous robot model inside a warehouse in London
  • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
    Special ReportFuture of Industry
    ‘Factory of the future’ offers new blueprint for manufacturers

    Robotics and data analytics can make processes more efficient, less energy-intensive, and less expensive

    An operator uses tablet data to tap into realtime factory data and analysis tools
  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
    Lex
    AutoStore: robot warehouses continue to stack up Premium content

    A push to replace humans should support earnings growth

    AutoStore’s warehouse robots in use at a logistics centre in Germany
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