Category: Robots

Venture capitalists are the startup experts, the ones who have their finger on the pulse of which fledgling companies will boom and which will bust. As part of Business Insider Prime’s comprehensive coverage of the startups that will strike gold in 2019, we asked VCs to name the startups they think are going to be…

Robotics company Boston Dynamics has begun leasing out one of its robots for the first time ever.It’s leasing out Spot, a dog-like robot which it says could be used for inspecting building sites or oil and gas facilities.Boston Dynamics’ VP of business development Michael Perry told TechCrunch the company’s getting a “deluge” of applications.Visit Business…

Alibaba Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce conglomerate, opened a high-tech “hotel of the future” in Hangzhou, China, earlier this year. The hotel allows guests to manage reservations and make payments entirely from a mobile app and enter rooms using facial-recognition technology rather than a traditional key card. Robots created by Alibaba’s AI Labs serve food, toiletries, and…

Taycan is Porsche’s new flagship vehicle and first all-electric car.The Taycan is being produced at a newly constructed wing of Porsche’s main factory in Zuffenhausen, Germany.Business Insider got a behind-the-scenes look at how the Taycan is made.Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Following is a transcript of the video.This is Porsche’s first all-electric vehicle, the…

(CNN)In the first trailer for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” the ninth installment in the saga, a new hairdryer-esque droid named D-O can be seen next to fan favorite droid BB-8. And the diminutive droid is a feat of engineering, even in toy form. Two s…

Im standing inside Samsung Digital City, where some 35,000 employees work, eat, play, and work some more in Suwon, South Korea. It feels like a university campus with green parks, throngs of young people, social clubs and coffee shops. Theres also a massive c…