Japan’s New Interactive Gummy Robot Candies Become Latest Snack Craze

Japanese researchers created an interactive gummy robot in the lab—but it's not the snack sensation headlines suggest.
Safety standards, certifications, risk assessment

Japanese researchers created an interactive gummy robot in the lab—but it's not the snack sensation headlines suggest.

Campus delivery robots promised efficiency and innovation—but rising costs and winter weather forced another shutdown in Wisconsin.

Four-legged robots are stepping into utility infrastructure inspection, reaching hazards that drones cannot and replacing the slowest aspects of human crews.

Rather than allowing the instrument to become inert in orbit due to fuel depletion or component failure, robotic systems could perform refueling, replace...

Self-driving vehicles promise to reshape transportation, but a gap between technical readiness and regulatory clarity threatens to derail their rollout.

Waymo operates 70 times more robotaxi vehicles than Tesla, highlighting a vast gap in commercial readiness and market dominance.

Robot lawn mowers from Navimow automate grass cutting but require careful planning around boundary systems, seasonal limitations, and yard complexity.

Autonomous cleaning robots are moving beyond experimental pilots into everyday office buildings, reshaping facility operations and labor dynamics.

Robotic window cleaners work in ideal conditions but remain limited by weather, building geometry, and maintenance challenges.

SwitchBot's hybrid robot vacuum-stick cleaner tackles storage and convenience, but shared batteries and performance trade-offs define real-world use.