Calder McHugh is deputy editor of POLITICO Nightly.

With labor shortages affecting the utility-scale solar segment, some companies are presenting so-called robot “super workers” as a solution. California-based startup RoboForce aims to eventually ...

From lowering labor costs to keeping employees safe and happy, “cobots” have many advantages. Labor costs are a perpetual challenge for restaurant operators. Recruiting, hiring, training, and ...

There has been a lot written recently about ChatGPT, a new artificial intelligence bot created by a company called OpenAI. It’s scary good. New York magazine got the thing to write a brief story about ...

The adult world is ever more full of robots. Children’s entertainment feels as if it’s working hard to make them seem adorable. By Diego Hadis One near certainty about raising a young child these days ...

The possibility that robots might one day run our lives has long been a fantasy and a fear. As a forward-looking tech-obsessed city, it should be no surprise that we’re right in the middle of ...

Dreame Technology has announced that its X50 Ultra robot vacuum has been included in TIME magazine’s list of the Best Inventions of 2025. This recognition puts the X50 Ultra among a group of products ...

From inventory management to self-service ordering and delivery integrations, automation is a central part of modern restaurant operations. These solutions not only help address industry challenges ...

Scientists at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), have investigated the impact of the shadow produced by moving cleaning robots on ...

In this 1987 cartoon by Bulgarian artist Milen Radev, an engineer operates a wireless remote control to command a towering ...