Emerging Tech
Robots Used to Be Advertised As Job-Saving Technology
Automation is now viewed in the same manner as outsourcing.
Artificial Intelligence
The Mars Robot Making Decisions on Its Own
Thanks to artificial-intelligence software, the Curiosity rover can target rocks without human input.
Artificial Intelligence
Low-Skill Workers Aren’t Actually the Ones Most Threatened by Robots
Thanks primarily to automation, and to a lesser extent globalization, no rich country’s middle-skilled workers are safe.
Artificial Intelligence
Is it Unethical to Design Robots to Resemble Humans?
The more we humanize chatbots, virtual assistants and machines, the more we in turn display human emotions toward them.
Artificial Intelligence
Tax the Robots? 'No Way,' Says EU Official Tasked With Preparing Europe For a Digital Future
He believes a tax would discourage automation technologies from staying and innovating in Europe.
Artificial Intelligence
Robots of the Future Will Learn Just Like They Do in Star Trek’s Holodeck
When future robots enter the world, they won’t have a learning curve.
Emerging Tech
San Francisco to Delivery Robots: Get Off the Damn Sidewalk
A city lawmaker has proposed legislation banning autonomous delivery-bots. But the battle over who gets to use the sidewalk may just be getting started.
Emerging Tech
Meet NASA's Newest Crew Member: Astrobee
It's a friendly little cube that will fly around the International Space Station.
Artificial Intelligence
The Military is Using Human Brain Waves to Teach Robots How to Shoot
Without even realizing it, soldiers could soon be training robot sharpshooters to take their jobs.
Artificial Intelligence
What Will We Do When Robots Have Taken Our Jobs?
Automation could affect our mental health as well as our salaries.
Digital Government
Robot Exoskeletons Are Finally Here, And They’re Nothing Like the Suits From 'Iron Man'
After years of tinkering and military adventures, the first exoskeleton suits are finally walking out of the lab and into the market.
Artificial Intelligence
Robots Don’t Have to Take Over Jobs in Order to Be a Problem for Workers
“I think full automation is a big red herring."
Digital Government
The Rise of the Health Care Robots
The robots are coming and they want you to get well soon.
Artificial Intelligence
How Should We Treat Our Military Robots?
Increasingly human-like automated weapons demand an honest accounting of our emotional responses to them.
Artificial Intelligence
People Are Scared of Artificial Intelligence For All the Wrong Reasons
According to one survey, people are most afraid of robots in their home.
Emerging Tech
The Israeli Finalist in Google’s $20 Million Race to the Moon Won’t Make It to the Starting Line
The Google Lunar XPrize is a contest offering $20 million to the first private team to send a robot to the moon.
Artificial Intelligence
No One Is Prepared to Stop the Robot Onslaught. So What Will We Do When It Arrives?
Economists say somewhere between 9 percent and 47 percent of workers in the West could lose jobs to automation over the next two or so decades.
Digital Government
What Is It Like to Regain a Sense of Touch, Only to Lose It Again?
A mind-controlled robotic arm might one day feel real, but for its first two paralyzed users, the sensation is only fleeting.
Emerging Tech
A Problem That Keeps Warehouse Work From Being Fully Automated Has Just Been Solved
A startup called RightHand robotics recently began piloting technology that automates a task robots have previously struggled to master.
Artificial Intelligence
NASA’s Scientists Formed a Club to Dream Up Uses for AI Like Self-Replicating Robots and Harpooning Comets
Some ideas developing in the lab are so far-flung, the brains behind them don’t want to involve the agency’s top brass at all.
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