Digital Government
What Is It Like to Regain a Sense of Touch, Only to Lose It Again?
A mind-controlled robotic arm might one day feel real, but for its first two paralyzed users, the sensation is only fleeting.
Emerging Tech
A Problem That Keeps Warehouse Work From Being Fully Automated Has Just Been Solved
A startup called RightHand robotics recently began piloting technology that automates a task robots have previously struggled to master.
Artificial Intelligence
NASA’s Scientists Formed a Club to Dream Up Uses for AI Like Self-Replicating Robots and Harpooning Comets
Some ideas developing in the lab are so far-flung, the brains behind them don’t want to involve the agency’s top brass at all.
Artificial Intelligence
How Many Robots Does It Take to Replace a Human Job?
A new study looks at how recent technology innovation has affected workers thus far.
Digital Government
NASA Just Made a Tiny New Robot Companion for the Mars Rover
It’s built to manage all kinds of situations.
Artificial Intelligence
In the Great Robot Job Takeover, Women Are Less Likely to Suffer Than Men
Fields such as manufacturing and transport tend to be dominated by men.
Digital Government
Russia Joins US in Race to Field Gun-Launched Swarmbots
A pair of Russian programs hastens the day drone swarms may meet each other over the battlefield.
Digital Government
We Can Now Work Next to Our Robot Colleagues Without Getting Mauled to Death, Thanks to an Airbag
German researchers at the DLR Robotics and Mechatronics Center are working to create a safer workplace for both man and robot.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence: The Park Rangers of the Anthropocene
We worry about machines going rogue. What if they went green instead?
Artificial Intelligence
Robots Are Coming to Your Home: Here's What to Expect
Robots hitting the market soon might one day be a part of your family.
Artificial Intelligence
Robots Won’t Take Your Job—They’ll Help Make Room For Meaningful Work Instead
A dire view of automation excludes a lot of the story.
Artificial Intelligence
A Rogue Robot is Blamed For Human Colleague’s Gruesome Death
Usually when people worry about machines and work, they are concerned automation will take away their livelihoods, not their lives.
Emerging Tech
When Robots Race, the Student Engineers Win
Surprisingly, an obstacle course for robots teaches practical skills.
Artificial Intelligence
The Optimist’s Guide to the Robot Apocalypse
Widespread unemployment due to technology has never materialized before.
Artificial Intelligence
MIT’s New Robot Reads Your Thoughts and Knows When It Made a Mistake
Instead of taking over for a computer, typing instructions onto keyboards, or speaking them aloud, what if you could just think them?
Digital Government
The 'Curious' Robots Searching for the Ocean's Secrets
A new class of machines knows how to recognize and investigate unexpected things that pop up underwater.
Artificial Intelligence
The Post-Human World
A conversation about the end of work, individualism, and the human species with the historian Yuval Harari
Artificial Intelligence
The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes, Says Bill Gates
It’s a striking position from the world’s richest man and a self-described techno-optimist who co-founded Microsoft.
Emerging Tech