Emerging Tech
This Startup Thinks Future of Deliveries Is an Ostrich-Shaped Robot
This leggy robot that can traverse any awkward footings that come naturally, or at least more easily, to humans.
Artificial Intelligence
Alphabet’s Boston Dynamics Is Working on a Robot Its Founder Calls 'Nightmare Inducing'
The company's latest creation takes things a step further.
Artificial Intelligence
Silicon Valley Is Right—Our Jobs Are Already Disappearing
It's happening with the development of artificial intelligence, robotics, software and automation.
Artificial Intelligence
Video: Look for This Robot Barista on Your Morning Commute
A different kind of handmade.
Emerging Tech
A Grocery Store Is Testing Squishy Robot Hands to Pack its Bags
We’re getting really close to completely automated deliveries.
Artificial Intelligence
The EU Is Exploring Legal Personhood for Robots
For the time being, robots don’t need civil rights—they have a hard enough time walking, let alone marching—but the European Union doesn’t expect that to be the case forever.
Artificial Intelligence
Skills Your Kids Should Cultivate to Be Competitive in the Age of Automation
Perceptive and emotional AI is developing fast.
Artificial Intelligence
Don’t Want a Robot to Steal Your Job? Be Creative
Cheap computing power and rapidly advancing AI mean that machines already outperform us on tasks that involve retaining, processing and repeating rule-based information.
Artificial Intelligence
Why Injecting Personality in Technology Makes People Angry
Talking bots make people mad, product designers have found.
Artificial Intelligence
If You’ve Been Stuck in an Airport Because of Delays Recently, You Already Know How Bad a Highly Automated Society Will Be
We, in the U.S. at least, live in a world where we often can’t talk to humans, even when we want to.
Emerging Tech
Moths Are Driving Miniature Cars to Help Scientists Build Odor-Tracking Robots
It turns out, moths are actually pretty good at driving—at least when scientists hook them up to the right equipment.
Emerging Tech
Robotics Expert Predicts Kids Born in 2017 Will Never Drive a Car
The auto industry is racing toward a driverless future.
Emerging Tech
A 13-Foot-Tall, Avatar-Like Manned Robot Took Its First Steps
A South Korean company recently debuted a robotic exoskeleton.
Emerging Tech
The $10,500 Robot Arm that Can Build Its Coworkers
A company has built a safer robot arm to work alongside humans.
Artificial Intelligence
Apple’s First Research Paper Tries to Solve a Problem Facing Every Company Working on AI
It addresses a core problem: training a machine takes a huge amount of data.
Digital Government
Video: Hyundai is Bringing Exo-Skeletons to the Masses
The company hopes to expand the notion of mobility.
Artificial Intelligence
Researchers Push Limits of Machine Learning by Programming Robot to Fold Laundry
It won't really save you time.
Emerging Tech