Emerging Tech
Siemens Is Building a Swarm of Robot Spiders to 3-D Print Objects Together
Current technology won’t allow us to make anything larger than the printing machines themselves. That could soon change.
Emerging Tech
These Robots Act Differently When You're Around
The machines of the future will tailor their behavior to humans—and even individual personalities.
Emerging Tech
Actually, We Should Teach Robots to Disobey Humans.
Should you always do what other people tell you to do? Clearly not.
Digital Government
Navy Christens First Robot Ghost Ship
Autonomous vessels like this submarine hunter will play a growing role in future naval missions and will soon crowd the seas.
Emerging Tech
MIT Scientists Create Hydraulic Robot from Single 3-D Print
The robots are made up of solid and liquid parts, which could have big implications on how we design robots to interact with humans in the future.
Emerging Tech
Why the Future Needs Huggable Robots
The distance between people and machines—the fact that robots aren’t more snuggly—poses a real problem for the future of robotics.
Modernization
Video: Want to Recycle Your iPhone? This Robot Will Do it For You
Apple hopes its newest employee can have a positive impact on the environment.
Artificial Intelligence
What Exactly is a Robot?
This has become an increasingly difficult question to answer, yet it’s a crucial one.
Digital Government
Workers in These Countries Believe AI and Robots Will Replace Them
Chinese workers have seen the future, and it involves artificial intelligence
Emerging Tech
Domino’s Has Announced the World’s First Pizza Delivery Robot
The Domino's Robot Unit, or DRU, is a repurposed military robot.
Digital Government
A Brief History of Robot Law
A new paper looks at how courts have handled a few notable conflicts between man and machine.
Artificial Intelligence
Slack Is Working on Manager Bots That Will Automatically Check up on Employees
In the future, you won’t be bugged by your manager over Slack for status updates on your work. Slack itself will be bugging you.
Artificial Intelligence
Can You Trust a Robot?
People think machines are taking everyone’s jobs. Except their own.
Artificial Intelligence
Robots 1, Humans 0: Google DeepMind Is Now Two Go Games Away From Making AI History
The game was once considered beyond the reach of artificial intelligence programs.
Emerging Tech
Why Commerce Wants Robots to Fix Themselves
NIST wants to create a standard test by which manufacturers can evaluate robots’ agility before deploying them in the factory.
Emerging Tech
Here’s Why Robots Might Not Be Taking Government Jobs Any Time Soon
We still don’t understand the full psychological impact of working with robots, a new analysis concludes.
Digital Government
The Military’s Superfast Bird Drone
The Defense Department’s mad scientists show how to make superfast, light-weight drones.
Artificial Intelligence
The Army Has Made a Robot Cockroach
Biologically inspired robot bugs could be the next big thing in intelligence collection.
Artificial Intelligence
Should We Fear an AI Arms Race?
Five reasons the benefits of defense-related artificial intelligence research outweigh the risks—for now.
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