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For #techworkers who currently don't have a pee bottle or a suicide net at their job-site, it's long past time to get over this founder-in-waiting bullshit and #organize Recognize that you're a worker, and that workers' only real source of power isn't ephemeral scarcity, it's durable #solidarity:

New blog post!

☆An honest review of the Yarbo experience☆

To start this off, I'm going to be breaking this up into distinct sections: the robot itself, the customer service, the snow performance, the lawn performance, and trials and tribulations.

The robot

Let me just start this off by saying I got the original robot and then I paid a bit more to upgrade to the c(...) https://blog.bluestarcreations.net/blues-reviews/an-honest-review-of-the-yarbo-experience/

#BluesReviews #hardware #robots #robotics #Yarbo

#ICYMI: Last month, I chatted to Prof. Heather Knight from Oregon State University about #robots in theatre, dance and comedy.

Catch up here 🎧 - https://www.robottalk.org/2025/11/14/episode-133-heather-knight/ or wherever you get your podcasts!

#Robotics #HRI #Theatre #Dance

Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
https://news.mit.edu/2025/artificial-tendons-give-muscle-powered-robots-boost-1201 #robotics #robot #technology #engineering #robots #arduino #electronics #automation #tech #innovation

Beeple’s Art Basel Robot Dogs Satirize Musk, Zuckerberg and Our AI Future | Scientific American - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/beeples-art-basel-robot-dogs-satirize-musk-zuckerberg-and-our-ai-future/

Billionaire-headed machines lampoon tech power and the way our images quietly become fuel for AI.

#ArtBasel #Art #Robots #AI #future #art #Satire #press

🌵🤖 Researchers at Swiss university #EPFL discovered that tumbleweeds have asymmetrical porosity that makes them efficient #wind-powered travelers, inspiring the HERMES #robot that uses 48% less #energy than traditional #robots.

The tumbleweed-inspired #design includes a built-in quadcopter for windless conditions and could eventually explore disaster zones or even #Mars.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/technology/tumbleweed-robot-hermes/

#robotics #biomimicry #engineering #tech #technology #innovation #nature #science

"We’ll need to give him the specs for voltage, current, frequency, and physical dimensions. That’s assuming we even get that far. Right now the whole Petisol concept is in this head here,” I said gesturing to MIke’s avatar.

#PositiveSF #CanadianSF #HoE #Transmigration #MachineIntelligence #Robots #Gaia

Looking for the perfect gift for the robotics fan in your life? Why not give them a membership to the Robot Talk community on Patreon? 🤖

They'll get exclusive bonus episodes, behind-the-scenes updates from the podcast & more!

🛍️ Gift a membership here: https://www.patreon.com/ClaireAsher/gift

#Robots #Robotics #Gifting #Podcast

A photo of Claire (Robot Talk host) looking happy. She's wearing headphones, there's a microphone in front of her and a monstera plant in the background.

Students at Texas A&M University have developed a robotic dog that never forgets where it's been and what it's seen. It's AI-powered navigation system integrates computer vision, reasoning, and path optimisation to plan its route and react quickly to obstacles, making it ideal for search-and-rescue, disaster response or other emergency operations. 🤖 https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-ai-powered-robotic-dog-human.html #Robots #Robotics

Sometimes, I like to switch gears and read something that is poignant and wholesome. This novella definitely hits the spot - Automatic Noodle by Anna Lee Newitz!

https://www.reedfaster.com/2025/12/do-robots-dream-of-electric-noodles.html?m=1

#books #bookreview #robots #dragcryptid

Waymo recalls robotaxi software after school bus safety failures

https://www.therobotreport.com/waaymo-recalls-robotaxi-software-after-school-bus-safety-failures/

#robots #press

From iCub to humanoids: Generative Bionics raises $81M

https://www.therobotreport.com/from-icub-to-humanoids-generative-bionics-raises-81m/

#robots #press

“Sure. I’ve told Michel that the Petisol needs to be a direct plugin replacement for the battery packs. Publicly we have implied that the units will be much larger, the size of a small car. That’s a cover story, and such a major advance as to be almost believed. But the real aim is to power the robots first, everything else after that."

#PositiveSF #CanadianSF #HoE #Transmigration #MachineIntelligence #Robots #Gaia

"Que los #robots y la #IA no nos quiten el #trabajo", es una proposición completamente deformada.
La #humanidad tendría que estar haciendo todo lo posible para que "los robots y la IA" le quiten todo el trabajo.
Para liberarnos y no tener que perder más #tiempo -de una #vida única y breve- trabajando.
Sólo bajo la #barbarie sociópata, parasitaria, del #capitalismo y la apropiación y concentración de #riqueza se entiende semejante desaguisado.
#GuerradeClases #MediosdeProducción #Marx #política

Eufy’s Best Robot Vacuum Is $405 Off (2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/the-best-robot-vacuum-deal-2025/

WRITER FUEL: Scientists have created a prototype robot that can grow, heal and improve itself by integrating material from its environment or by "consuming" other robots.

What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.limfic.com/2025/12/10/writer-fuel-were-teaching-robots-to-build-themselves-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/

#WriterFuel #StoryIdeas #Robots #Terminator

@RobotTalkPod

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/amazon-robots-automation-workforce-ai

#Ai #Amazon #Automation #Capitalism #Robotics #robots #warehouseworkers

Capitalists are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour” (eg Billionaire Jeff “bossy boots” Bezos) https://jacobin.com/2025/12/amazon-robots-automation-workforce-ai

#Ai #Amazon #Automation #Capitalism #labourmovement #organize #Robots #solidarity #unions #warehouseworkers