Humanoid robots are one of those ideas that never truly goes out of style — it does, however, tend to ebb and flow across the decades. Whatever you happen to think about the project or the company tha...
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 research suggests close to half of the time-consuming...
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 take another human’s life? More than ...
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 next 30 years, and the robots are already takin...
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 ...
You might have heard of killer robots, slaughterbots or terminators – officially called lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs) – from films and books. And the idea of super-intelligent weapons running rampa...
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 registers when I noticed there was no line at the chec...
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 to, uh, clim...
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 experience is no exception. People might be afraid, ...
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 us...
Public high school in America was the product of the time of its invention, which was way back in 1821. But in this era of rapid technological change marked by artificial intelligence and robots movin...
A lobby group backed by Elon Musk and associated with a controversial ideology popular among tech billionaires is fighting to prevent killer robots from terminating humanity, and it’s taken hold...
AI is becoming more sophisticated, and some say capable of writing academic essays. But at what point does the intrusion of AI constitute cheating? “Waiting in front of the lecture hall for my next cl...
Le département de police de San Francisco (SFPD) demande au conseil de surveillance de la ville l’autorisation de pouvoir déployer des robots tueurs lorsque les forces de l’ordre considère...
Researchers make progress toward groups of robots that could build almost anything, including buildings, vehicles, and even bigger robots. Researchers at MIT have made significant steps toward creatin...