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Watch and freak out a little as Boston Dynamics puts Atlas robot to work

The most stunning thing you've ever seen a robot do is no longer parkour, it's a robot finding, fetching, and delivering a tool bag to a human worker. This week, Boston Dynamics posted its latest Atlas Robot demonstration video , but this one was different. In previous videos, we've seen the humanoid, bipedal robot, walk, run, dance, climb stairs, and do parkour. We've even seen it perform synchronized dances with a robot dog ( Spot ), but we've never seen anything like this. In the scenario, which features Boston Dynamics' first human actor, a construction worker is building a scaffold until he realized he forgot his tools. Enter Atlas. The now-familiar robot has been equipped with grabbers. In the video, it appears to seek a path to reach the worker, which includes finding a wood plank and making a bridge between the stairs and scaffold. Atlas then locates the tool bag, grabs it, walks up the stairs, across the plank, and, when it's just a level below

TechRadar Pro, TWICE and Residential Systems announce Picks Awards winners for CES 2023

TWICE ,  Residential Systems  and  TechRadar Pro  are proud to announce the winners of this year’s Picks Awards, the brands’ annual program honoring the best and most influential consumer technology that was at CES 2023 or introduced in 2022. The judges selected winners based on innovation, quality, and the impact they’re expected to have on the consumer electronic industry. More details on all winners will be provided shortly here and on residentialsystems.com and TWICE.com TechRadar Pro Picks Award Winners AMD Ryzen PRO 7030 Series Processors for Mobile Anycubic Kobra Max 3D printer Bullitt Satellite Connect IPEVO TOTEM 120 Multimodal Collaboration Camera IPEVO TOTEM 180 Panoramic Conference Camera Jabra Evolve2 Buds Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 80 External SSD Lenovo ThinkBook 16p Gen 4 QNAP, Inc. TS-464 Samsung Galaxy Tab Active4 Pro Samsung Galaxy XCover6 Pro Hisense Smart Mini Projector Thunderbolt Go Dock TWICE Picks Award Winners 5Gen Care Thermo AI Baby

A tale of two headsets: Hands-on HTC Vive XR Elite and Magic Leap 2 at CES 2023

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The ephemerality of virtual and augmented reality was matched by the technologies’ ubiquity at CES 2023 . It honestly felt a little like the mid-1990s when every tech company had an internet strategy. Now, almost everyone has either a way of overlaying images in the real world or immersing you in fantasy ones . The driving force behind this is the hardware, and CES 2023 was packed with it. There was a lot of it on the floor - so many AR glass companies, unafraid to jump into the risky breach that once gobbled up Google Glass. But the real leaders are Meta, Magic Leap, and HTC. While the once-secretive and now newly open Magic Leap was on the show floor at the metaverse space encouraging everyone to whip through a series of enterprise scenarios, Meta and Vive were offering invite-only demos of their latest gear at nearby hotel ballrooms. (Image credit: Future) I started with a Magic Leap visit where I met company CTO Julie Larson Green, a once-retired Microsoft Windows le

WowWee Dog-E is a robot pet that's finally completely unique to you

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No two real dogs are alike. They differ in temperament, personality, and looks. It's why we love them. Now WowWee thinks it can bring that one-in-a-million appeal to robot dogs. Back when robot toys were a thing, their weirdness and proximity to the uncanny valley was often part of their appeal. Leading the charge was WowWee, which sold a succession of oddball robo characters from Robosapiens to Roboraptor that were all surprisingly weird.  But the robot fad faded, and interests shifted from physical to screen-based fun. Robot toys mostly disappeared and, in their place, arrived blind surprise toys : often eggs you would buy sight-unseen, all for the opportunity of tearing them open to discover a collection of figurines and plush toys. WowWee didn’t sit around watching the demise of robot toys, it shifted to things like the Fingerlings and Avastars . It never forgot about robots but getting back in would require a shift in perspective: it couldn’t be expensive; it couldn’t

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