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    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      Security companies are turning to robots as the labour shortage bites

      Most androids focus on repetitive tasks, augmenting human labour, say executives

      A Knightscope security robot
    • 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
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