Arts & Entertainment Elon-Headed Robot Dog Spotted In San Francisco A robot dog with the head of Elon Musk that was part of an art installation at Miami Art Basel in December was seen prancing around San Francisco on Wednesday, as part of a promo for an upcoming art show.
Business & Tech Bay Area Company Sends First Humanoid Robot to the White House, Walking Side By Side With Melania Ugh. Melania Trump thinks more robots should be teaching children, which dovetails nicely with the administration gutting the Department of Education.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Viral Video of Dancing Robot Going Nuts In Restaurant Was From Cupertino A hot pot restaurant in Cupertino that, true to its Silicon Valley location, uses a humanoid robot to take orders from customers and also features it dancing in the dining room, lost control of that robot and it started making a serious mess.
Business & Tech DoorDash Launching Its Delivery Robots In Fremont, Because Maybe People There Will Complain Less DoorDash’s longtime dream of cutting paid human beings out of the delivery process is one step closer to reality, as they’re debuting their little robots to do food deliveries, but at first only in Fremont.
Business & Tech 50 Waymos Sent to Dead-End SF Street In Prankster's 'DDOS Attack' Local novelty app-maker Riley Walz is on something of a tear, garnering local media attention from the Chronicle and others for the third time in almost as many weeks with a prank on Waymo vehicles.
Business & Tech Apple Unveils Plans for Tabletop Robot Companion and Home Security System In response to criticism that Apple has missed the boat on the AI revolution, the company is reportedly working on a new tabletop AI "companion" that could hit the market in two years, as well as home-security cameras, and a smart speaker with a display.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet Another SF Cafe Trying ‘Robot Baristas,’ This Time at the Former Creamery Spot Near SoMa Caltrain “AI slop” may soon be available in liquid form, as yet one more forthcoming SF cafe is trying the robot barista idea, but also adding AI-generated art and music plus “tech-forward coffee” at the former Creamery space on Fourth Street.
Business & Tech Ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt Starts New ‘Bot Company,’ Gets Handed $150 Million Despite Having No Products Proving again that tech executives can always fail upwards, the CEO that ran self-driving car company Cruise into a ditch, Kyle Vogt, has just been handed $150 million for his new venture called the Bot Company that claims it will eventually develop robots to do household chores.
Business & Tech State Commission Votes to Approve Autonomous Taxi Expansion In San Francisco In Historic Vote The California Public Utilities Commission voted 3-1 on Thursday night, after over seven hours of public comment, to approve the expansion of robotaxi service in San Francisco to 24 hours — and approved both Cruise and Waymo to take paid fares at all hours.
SF News Supervisors Approve SFPD Use of Killer Robots — What Could Go Wrong? The SF Police Department got Board of Supervisors approval to use robots as a “deadly force option” against suspects Tuesday night. But at least the robots will only have bombs instead of firearms?
SF News Oakland Police Mull Acquiring Robots Armed With Shotguns The shotgun-toting robots prefer to be called “percussion actuated nonelectric disruptors,” and the Oakland Police Department wants some, though is currently offering a compromise measure where they’d only be armed with pepper spray.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Salad-Making Robot Makes Debut In Palo Alto #SallyTheSaladRobot is at @wework in #sf tonight for @inteahouse's pitch event! #WhenWeWorkMetSally #MakingFoodFun A post shared by Chowbotics (@chowbotics) on Jun 8, 2017 at 5:50pm PDT Sally, the salad-making robot, may soon
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Robot Barista At Metreon Charges For Healthcare So this is funny: There's a robot-manned coffee bar thing at the Metreon called Cafe X, and even it wants you to chip for its healthcare. Local blogger Mr. Eric Sir alerts us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cocktail-Concocting Robots Sought For Nightclub Competition It seems like these days, you can find robots anywhere: Talking to your children, pissing off Supervisor Normal Yee as they attempt to deliver your dinner, and acting as a butler at your
Arts & Entertainment Sean Parker Wants You To Buy This Communication Robot For Your Kid Everyone agrees that it's never too early to begin a child on social media. The San Francisco Business Times brings us news of ELFKINS, a Sean Parker-backed toy robot designed to safety introduce
SF News SF Supe Seeks Ban On Robot Delivery Services Starship just completed its first official and completely autonomous delivery to a wonderful lady in Richmond district of San Francisco A post shared by Starship Technologies (@starshiprobots) on Sep 20, 2016 at 2:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delivery Robot Named Carry Spotted 'Learning The Sidewalks' Of The Mission Spotted on 19th Street: A delivery robot named "Carry" https://t.co/l8mXp2GqCH pic.twitter.com/EC1HGZUCuk— Mission Local (@MLNow) February 22, 2017 That R2D2-ish delivery robot on wheels that we first told
SF News Alphabet-Owned Boston Dynamics Unveils New 'Nightmare Inducing' Wheeled Robot In leaked video from a private presentation to investors by Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert, we see their latest war machine incredible mobile AI creation, Handle. Raibert himself says that it looks to
Arts & Entertainment Apocalypse Now, Please: Two Google Home Devices Have An Endless Conversation About Everything And Nothing Two Google Home devices have been programmed (tricked? hacked?) into talking back and forth to each other, and it's been going on all day and live-streamed via Twitch TV, under the header SeeBotsChat.
SF News Bay Area Company Unveils Two-Foot-Tall Robot Nanny As robots continue their relentless march into our daily lives, a Redwood City-based startup is banking on the fact that parents around the world will be all too happy to pass off basic
SF News Robot Butler And Real-Time Tenant Tracking Offered At Luxe SF Apartment With numerous over-the-top housing options competing for the dollars of San Francisco's most well paid, The Jasper is doing its best to stand out. And with at least one three-bedroom in the 40-story
SF News Autonomous Delivery Bot Hits San Francisco Sidewalks Starship just completed its first official and completely autonomous delivery to a wonderful lady in Richmond district of San Francisco A photo posted by Starship Technologies (@starshiprobots) on Sep 20, 2016 at 2:
SF News Autonomous Robots Are Coming To A Lowe's Near You Hardware and home furnishings store Lowe's is to begin staffing its 11 Bay Area stores with autonomous helper bots as soon as this month. Dubbed the LoweBot, the San Francisco Business Times reports
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's more,
