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11 stories dated February 2025.
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CEO Mary Barra said the cost of running a robotaxi fleet "[is] not our core business." About 1,000 Cruise staff are gone, and the rest will work on driver-assist features for cars people own.
Rosendin and ULC Technologies spent a year and a half developing a three-robot system, ENR reports, and it has had a year of field trials. Its SVP says the crew got smaller and the robot works. He also says the most expensive part was overbuilt.
Serve Robotics brought its delivery robots to Miami Beach and Brickell for Shake Shack and Mister O1 orders. It didn't say how many robots, or what a delivery costs.
The salad chain ended 2024 with 12 automated "Infinite Kitchens" and plans to roughly triple that in 2025. Its own filing warns that Chinese-made parts and new tariffs could make more units too costly.
DoNotPay sold a subscription it called "the world's first robot lawyer." The FTC says the company never checked whether it worked like one, and has now finalized an order that bans the claim without evidence.
CEA kept a hydrogen plasma going for 1,337 seconds on 2 MW of heating, 25% longer than China's EAST weeks earlier. CEA itself says fusion is unlikely to matter much for net zero by 2050.
Three printed buildings, two in Texas and one in New Mexico, each house up to 56 soldiers. The Army didn't publish what they cost.
Louth County Council's three Grange Close houses were printed in 12 days. The builder says each cost about €253,000 before VAT, the same as conventional construction.
SQ4D printed more than half of the Brentwood house. Because the method was new, Habitat couldn't use its usual grants, and the town put in $250,000.
On its February 2025 earnings call, Wendy's said its voice-AI order taker is in about 100 restaurants and will reach 500 to 600 this year. The only accuracy number it has published, 86%, comes from four Columbus restaurants in 2023.
Technicians photograph turbine blades and AI picks which images they review. GE says the tool cut inspection time in half on GEnx engines over about three years, and is now going to more than a dozen MRO sites for narrowbody LEAP engines.