Robots

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 ]

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 [… Read more ]

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 [… Read more ]

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 [… Read more ]

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 [… Read more ]

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 [… Read more ]