"After Yang," the second feature by Kogonada, takes place in a speculative future that looks uncannily like our listless present, with holograph-like phone calls that resemble Zoom and domestic interiors that could have been lifted from an Architectural Digest slide show.
As with Edward Said 's foundational theory of Orientalism, in which the Eastern Other is framed as peripheral to the rich humanism of the Western subject, techno-Orientalism figures Asians as distant, unrelatable, and inscrutable.
Russian delivery robots at Ohio State, University of Arizona pulled by Grubhub
Two U.S. university campuses are losing their food-delivery robots for now because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Grubhub said Thursday that it is ending its partnership with Russian tech company Yandex and pulling 100 Yandex-made food-delivery robots from the campuses of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.
Treat-vending robots are popping up in San Francisco parks
The company behind the enterprising robots is called Tortoise, a Mountain View-based robot delivery company that recently pivoted to "Mobile Smart Stores," or "the world's first robotic remote-controlled store-on-wheels," as it claims.
"We had a remote control grocery delivery robot, and we were deploying that in a bunch of different markets," said Tortoise co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko.
These hard-bodied robots can reproduce, learn and evolve autonomously
Where biology and technology meet, evolutionary robotics is spawning automatons evolving in real-time and space. The basis of this field, evolutionary computing, sees robots possessing a virtual genome 'mate' to 'reproduce' improved offspring in response to complex, harsh environments.
How to help humans understand robots | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientists who study human-robot interaction often focus on understanding human intentions from a robot's perspective, so the robot learns to cooperate with people more effectively. But human-robot interaction is a two-way street, and the human also needs to learn how the robot behaves.
Save Mart tests delivery robots in NorCal stores - The Business Journal
Starship Technologies, along with The Save Mart Companies, has announced a partnership that will bring a self-automated robot delivery service to a new location in Pleasanton — and the service may be coming to the Valley before long.
Lucky California is the first grocery store in the Bay Area to partner with Starship Technologies following the success of Save Mart's Modesto flagship location trial run.
Company launches food-delivery robots on University of Tennessee campus | wbir.com
A company called "Starship Technologies" is deploying robotic food carriers for the spring semester. They deliver food from 13 dining spots on campus by using a combination of mapping technology and GPS technology. About 25 robots were delivering food Wednesday.
They see them rolling, but no one's hating. These robots are on a mission to deliver food while being polite in the process. According to one student, if you help one that finds itself in a tricky situation, such as being stuck somewhere on campus, the robot will thank you for getting it unstuck.
Labor shortages prompt DHL and Boston Dynamics to rely on robots for help
"Our strategy is to reduce our dependency on labor, which is hard to find in the market currently, and improve the type of positions in the facilities so workers have less travel and more rewarding work" Sally Miller, DHL North America supply chain chief information officer, told Yahoo Finance.
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