(Natural News) Joshua Browder, the founder of DoNotPay, showed in a video shared on Twitter his newly launched artificial intelligence (AI) tool’s ability to handle customer service calls on behalf of users. Browder said using an AI-generated version of Browder’s own voice, it successfully requested a refund from Wells Fargo, a San Francisco-based multinational financial […]

(Natural News) There are 13,266 McDonald’s stores in the United States as of this writing, but one in Fort Worth, Texas stands out. It is the first fully automated outlet of the giant fast-food chain. The customer can go in, order the food, get the meal and pay the bill without human interaction. Of course, […]

(Natural News) Agricultural machinery company John Deere is planning to manufacture nothing but fully automated farming vehicles by 2030. Jorge Heraud, vice president of automation and autonomy for John Deere, noted that he sees the company’s future as being a leader in the manufacturing of robotics and artificial intelligence-infused equipment alongside the tech giants of […]

(Natural News) Robots are set to replace human workers as shelf stockers in a Japanese convenience store chain. Convenience store company FamilyMart collaborated with Tokyo-based Telexistence to deploy these robots called TX Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm (TX SCARA) in 300 locations across the country. The robot arms designed to replenish drinks in refrigerators are now […]

(Natural News) A massive meat rendering facility is due to begin construction in Rapid City, South Dakota next year, with plans for its completion by 2026. The $1.1 billion facility is known as the, “Western Legacy Development Corporation,” and it promises to bring large-scale production to the beef industry, rendering an estimated 8,000 cattle per […]

(Natural News) The first 3D-printed house made of fully natural and recyclable raw earth was built in Massa Lombarda in Ravenna, Italy. It was a collaboration between Mario Cucinella Architects (MC A) and WASP, which both specialize in 3D printing. The circular housing prototype is called TECLA – from the combination of the words technology […]

(Natural News) Walmart has announced it is expanding its drone delivery offering, extending the service to six states in a move that will provide four million Americans with aerial delivery of thousands of Walmart goods within just 30 minutes. Walmart’s Senior Vice President of Innovation and Automation, David Guggina, said earlier experiences with their existing […]

(Natural News) Say what you will about Donald Trump and his ‘mean tweets,’ but the man knew what he was doing when it came to reinvigorating our economy. After eight years of decline and then stagnation under Barack Obama, in three years’ time, America became an economic powerhouse under Trump’s policies: Unemployment was at record […]

(Natural News) Experts in military strategy and artificial intelligence are raising the alarm after a UN conference did not reach an agreement on banning the use of so-called slaughterbots at a recent meeting in Geneva. Slaughterbots is the name that has been given to weapons that can select and apply force to targets without using […]

(Natural News) The recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is a powerful reminder about the detriments of “smart” technology, which is gone in an instant once the “cloud” goes down. One wonders how many thousands (millions?) of people out there were left without working doorbells, Roomba vacuum cleaners and even refrigerators that normally run on […]