Robots

Your Next Fitness Coach Could Be a Robot A.I. fitness trainers are here, at a fraction of the price of human coaching. But how useful [… Read more ]

As artificial intelligence continues to advance, researchers, scholars and ethicists consider whether robots deserve to be treated more like people Last year a software engineer [… Read more ]

You may have already seen them in restaurants: waist-high machines that can greet guests, lead them to their tables, deliver food and drinks and ferry [… Read more ]

The economy is a bit better — kind of, maybe, sort of? While things appear to be trending in the right direction, it’s going to [… Read more ]

Humanoid robots are one of those ideas that never truly goes out of style — it does, however, tend to ebb and flow across the [… Read more ]

There are growing fears around the impact automation could have on jobs, but there’s been much less focus on how it could impact unpaid labor. New [… Read more ]

In the 1866 novel Crime and Punishment, Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky drills straight into a dark and perplexing question: Is it ever acceptable for a human to [… Read more ]

Could a robot steal your job? Think your job is super-secure? Don’t get too cozy. Experts predict many existing roles will be automated within the [… Read more ]

The latest robot research about robots choosing new behavior is a step beyond artificial intelligence. Instead of simply adapting to situations, a conscious robot would proactively improve itself. Is [… Read more ]

You might have heard of killer robots, slaughterbots or terminators – officially called lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs) – from films and books. And the idea [… Read more ]

It was a busy weekend at the local supermarket, and lines were forming at checkout. Around a half-dozen people lined up at the automated checkout [… Read more ]

There’s not a lot of burgeoning tech out there that so often vacillates between being cute and absolutely horrifying as robodogs. In a further baffling twist, they’re now able [… Read more ]

Dec. 1, 2022 – It’s common for many people to fear the unknown, and exactly how artificial intelligence might transform the health care and medical [… Read more ]

Researchers from Google’s Robotics team have open-sourced Code-as-Policies (CaP), a robot control method that uses a large language model (LL M) to generate robot-control code that achieves a user-specified [… Read more ]