This Month
Robot joins Melania Trump at White House event to tout AI teachers
The humanoid robot, which introduced itself as “Figure 03”, joined the first lady to welcome first spouses from around the world to a technology summit.
Former Downer execs raise millions for robots that repair trains
Institutional investors, including Queensland Investment Corporation, back Brisbane start-up that has sold robots to Rio Tinto, Dubai Metro and Lufthansa.
February
How AI and robotics are changing your hotel stay
Futuristic technologies are becoming commonplace within Australia’s biggest hotel chains, with their uses ranging from booking systems to housekeeping.
To stay in her home, she let in an AI robot
At 85, Jan Worrell lived alone on a remote corner of the Washington coast. Could ElliQ become her companion?
Hollywood fights and kung fu robots. China’s AI blitz sparks alarm
Chinese tech giants are using the Lunar New Year holiday to unleash their new tools that range from stunning fake videos to sophisticated humanoid robots.
January
Big retailers risk losing their souls in the rush to AI
The key will be to ensure the new shopping experiences are better and more efficient without inadvertently bungling the rollout or alienating loyal customers.
GQG faces ‘redemption risks’ as anti-tech bet scares off investors
Investment chief Rajiv Jain’s bold call to rotate out of tech stocks last year has eroded GQG’s stellar track record, causing investors to pull billions from its funds.
Why this Australian pioneer thinks humanoid robots are doomed to fail
Rodney Brooks has spent his career making intelligent machines a part of everyday life. But now he finds himself playing the sceptic.
New robovac that climbs stairs is ungainly (but it works)
Roborock, the Chinese firm that wowed crowds at last year’s CES by adding a single arm to one of its robot vacuum cleaners, has added a pair of legs this year.
November 2025
‘I can feel the neurons shrinking’: Leave me alone, AI
Considering how fast changing this stuff is, I live in hope that today’s tedious intrusions by chatbot helpers will soon fade as people adapt to it.
November 2025
Russian humanoid robot falls on its face in hyped debut
The artificial intelligence-powered creation was supposed to put on a world-beating performance, but wound up on its face.
No more rip-offs: AI turns everyone into an expert negotiator
When everyone has a genius in their pocket, they will be less vulnerable to mis-selling – benefiting them and improving overall economic efficiency.
October 2025
It took 6 seconds for Musk to say the magic word. It didn’t work
The Tesla chief executive has a message for shareholders: give me my money and my shares, or I won’t build your robot army. It’s a bold way to play his AI bet.
Tesla’s record quarterly revenue tops forecasts
However, profit per share in the third quarter landed at US50¢, which was below analysts’ estimates of US55¢.
Amazon plans to replace more than half a million jobs with robots
Interviews and a cache of internal strategy documents reveal that the e-commerce giant’s executives think it is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift.
OpenAI’s latest ‘breakthrough’ is a sobering reality check
The company’s leading scientists claimed GPT-5 had solved a famous set of math problems. Turned out it had basically “Googled” the answers.
Echoes of lithium boom as the ASX’s rare earth stocks rocket
Fund managers are betting a rally in critical minerals producers is only getting started, despite having lifted some stocks more than 200 per cent this year.
September 2025
A 25-year-old Melburnian now has a $100m robot helper start-up
Female founders are still struggling to receive funding, but Grace Brown’s robotics start-up Andromeda just banked a $23 million series A funding round.
August 2025
The AI era is HR’s time to shine. But they’re not invited
Australia’s top bosses think their people chiefs are not up to managing the artificial intelligence transition, and that’s a big problem.
Robots could unleash big gains in the care economy, says PC
In its final report before next week’s roundtable, the Productivity Commission also urged the government to create uniform rules on AI in the care sector.
