Jul 06, 2023
AI robots could play future role as companions in care homes

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Nadine, a social robot powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) with human-like gestures and expressions, could have an important future role to play in tending to the sick and elderly, according to a professor who…

Apr 12, 2023
Rodents beware: New York City hires first ‘rat czar’

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - New York City's unending war on rats has a new commanding general. Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday announced that Kathleen Corradi, an education department employee, has been appointed New York’s first-ever "rat czar," part of…

Feb 10, 2023
A boy and his boat help Chile firefighters combat blazes

By Cristobal Saavedra RIO FUTA, Chile (Reuters) - As his parents fought wildfires threatening their home in southern Chile, 13-year-old Lucas Cespedes decided to take action, ferrying firefighters across the local river in a small yellow rowing boat to help…

Oct 12, 2022
Arizona cryonics facility preserves bodies to revive later

By Liliana Salgado SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Reuters) - Time and death are "on pause" for some people in Scottsdale, Arizona. Inside tanks filled with liquid nitrogen are the bodies and heads of 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved in hopes…

Oct 04, 2022
Robots are making French fries faster, better than humans

PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) -Fast-food French fries and onion rings are going high-tech, thanks to a company in Southern California. Miso Robotics Inc in Pasadena has started rolling out its Flippy 2 robot, which automates the process of deep frying potatoes,…