Emerging Tech
Amazon Tests Out Robots That Might One Day Replace Warehouse Workers
The company hosted a competition over the weekend to find out if a robot could take the jobs of any of its many employees.
Emerging Tech
Unbreakable: A Robot That Can't Be Stopped
New research shows that artificial intelligence can use trial and error to finish a job even when a robot's body is damaged.
Emerging Tech
Google Wants to Make Creepy Bunny Robots to Talk to Your Kids
Google’s patent application suggests it wants to build a device with cameras and audio sensors that could determine when someone is looking at it and follow voice commands to control other internet-connected devices.
Digital Government
Secret US Military Space Drone Heads Back to Orbit
The flying robot looks like a shrunken down version of the Space Shuttle—and we still don’t know exactly what it will do up there.
Emerging Tech
Video: Meet Some Helpful New Robots
A 2-foot tall humanoid robot, Milo is designed to teach social skills to children with autism.
Emerging Tech
Building a Robot in Your Garage? You Could Get a DARPA Contract in Less Than a Month
DARPA's new Robotics Fast Track effort aims to reduce the proposal-to-contract turnaround time to less than a month.
Artificial Intelligence
Questioning the Hype About Artificial Intelligence
Fresh fears about the singularity have prompted new critiques of what it will mean for humanity.
Emerging Tech
Video: Inside Microsoft's HoloLens
Microsoft's holographic goggles could change the fields of genetics, engineering and paleontology.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence Is the Next Big Thing for Hedge Funds Seeking an Edge
A trading robot, developed by a team of academic roboticists, mathematicians and ex-bankers, is the brainchild of fledgling hedge fund Aidyia.
Emerging Tech
Congress Considers Roads for Robot Cars
But before that, lawmakers face an immediate transportation-funding shortfall.
Emerging Tech
Super Strong Mini Robots Can Haul Up to 2,000 Times Their Weight
These tiny robots' feats of strength are equivalent to a human dragging a blue whale across land.
Emerging Tech
Two Shape-Shifting Robots Now Stranded for Eternity Inside Fukushima’s Radioactive Ruins
The robots were sent into the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear reactor to assess the damage.
Artificial Intelligence
Do Killer Robots Violate Human Rights?
When machines are anthropomorphized, we risk applying a human standard that should not apply to mere tools.
Artificial Intelligence
Google Has Patented Ability to Control Robot Army
The patent suggests the robots could be controlled by a smartphone
Digital Government
Army Wants Robot Four-Wheelers and Decepticons
The service is outlining a multidecade plan for autonomic and robotic systems.
Emerging Tech
The UN Wants to Make Sure We’re Not Developing Killer Robots We Can’t Control
The United Nations has a lot of things to worry about. Famine, war, inequality, discrimination, epidemic disease… and now, reports New Scientist, the threat of autonomous robots that could destroy us on a whim.
Emerging Tech
Robot Spiders Could Build the Next Generation of Objects in Space
One of the most difficult parts about constructing satellites, space stations or other orbiting objects is getting the materials into space.
Artificial Intelligence
Teaching a Computer Not to Forget
One of the keys to unlocking artificial intelligence will be to figure out why biological brains are so good at remembering old skills—even when learning new things.
Artificial Intelligence
A Search Engine Could Become the First True Artificial Intelligence
What if Google, or Facebook, or any of the companies we entrust our information to, wanted to use our search histories to create an artificially intelligent robot?
Emerging Tech
Google's Next-Gen Robots Could Have Personalities
Google’s patent details a cloud-based system where a personality could be downloaded to a robot, in the same way one might download an app.
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