SF News Security Robot Temporarily Decommissioned After Knocking Down And Running Over Toddler An autonomous security robot at the Stanford Shopping Center has been temporarily pulled from use following reports that it knocked a toddler to the ground and then ran the kid over last week.
SF News Security Robot Knocks Toddler To The Ground Then Runs Him Over At Stanford Shopping Center A Palo Alto toddler was injured last Thursday after his parents claim a security robot at the Stanford Shopping Center knocked him over and then proceeded to run him over. And what'
SF News Uber Has A Robot Security Guard On The Beat In San Francisco Why pay a human to do a job a robot can do for less? We learn today via Fusion that ride-hail company Uber has answered this question with a resounding "don&
SF News Video: Robot Roaming Aisles Of Downtown Target Confirms Underwhelming Future It seems that Target has chosen San Francisco (so blessed) to test out its newest potential replacement for human labor. Say hello to "Tally," a shelf-scanning robot that Fortune reports
SF News Google Artificial Intelligence Defeats Go Grandmaster, Humans Prepare For Robot Uprising Ladies and gentlemen, we make a lot of jokes around here at SFist about the robot uprising, but news yesterday out of South Korea has us feeling a little, shall we say, on
Arts & Entertainment Watch Boston Dynamics Use Their War Dog To Terrorize A Helpless Schnauzer You've already watched that terrifying video from Google-owned Boston Dynamics, in which a robot is seemingly taunted by his heartless human creators/captors. (You've probably even seen the
SF News Video: Google-Owned Boston Dynamics Improves Their Terrifying, Terminator-Like Robots Alphabet/Google-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics, the people behind those crazy robot war dogs, has just unleashed upon us yet another bit of nightmare fuel. Specifically: The new and improved Atlas Robot.
SF News Google-Owned Robot War Dogs Wail Too Loudly For US Military Use The future of the nightmare-fuel robot war machines designed by Google-owned Boston Dynamics looks bleak after the US Marines announced they would no longer work with the robo-dogs. The reason?
SF News Google-Owned Robot Maker Ruins Christmas With War-Machine Dogs Pulling Santa's Sleigh Just in time for Christmas, maker of futuristic robots for the US Military, Google-owned Boston Dynamics, has unleashed a video that is sure to crush all visions of sugar plums dancing in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DNA Lounge To Host Competition For Cocktail-Making Robots Got some free time this summer because you're not building a Burning Man camp? In September, DNA Lounge will host a competition for robotics nerds who are also cocktail nerds to
SF News Amazon.com Purchases Robot Army While it's not particularly local, the news that Amazon.com has agreed to purchased warehouse robotics manufacturer Kiva Systems for $775 million should be alarming to anyone who fears the inevitable
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Future With No Robots Created by San Jose State University students Kimberly Knoll and Yunghan Chang, animated short No Robots tells a tale about a future in which robots are banned. And more. (Thanks, Laughing Squid!) No
