Modernization

This iPhone Factory in China Is Replacing 60,000 Workers With Robots

The next time you buy a new iPhone, it’s possible it will have been made by a robot.

Artificial Intelligence

Can Computers Be Creative? Google Launches Project to Find Out

The team specifically hopes to determine whether AI systems can be trained to create original pieces of music, art, or video.

Emerging Tech

This Robot Mermaid's Main Goal Is to Explore the Deep Sea

The OceanOne robot has successfully explored the wreckage of a ship that sank in 1664.

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk’s AI Group Has Set Up a 'Gym' to Train Bots

OpenAI Gym is meant to be used as a benchmarking tool for artificial intelligence programs.

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.

Digital Government

12 Inventions That Could One Day Change the World

The European Patent Office announced its annual shortlist for its European Inventor Awards, which honors a range of scientists across industries.

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.

Digital Government

Google Wants to Call Drones to Medical Emergencies at the Push of a Button

A new patent awarded to Google outlines a device that can call for a drone to fly in with specific medical equipment.

Digital Government

We’re Closer to a Future Where We Can 3-D Print Anything

We were promised sneakers and dinner at the push of a button, and instead we got tchotchkes.

Modernization

Apple Turns 40

Forty years ago today, two college dropouts decided to start selling cobbled-together computers out of a garage in California because they couldn’t afford the ones on the market.

Emerging Tech

Scientists Figured Out How to Steal Any 3-D-Printed Product Just From the Sounds the Printer Makes

If your company uses 3-D printing for anything confidential or sensitive, it might be time to invest in some soundproofing.

Emerging Tech

The First Cyborg Olympics Is Coming to Switzerland

Governing bodies of pretty much every sport in the world generally consider it an unfair advantage for athletes to ameliorate themselves in any way. But what if that was the whole fun of the sport?

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.