Tech evangelists dream of a future when we’re all liberated from mundane work by artificial intelligence. In the long term, automation of labor might benefit the human species immensely.
Shimizu, the architectural and contracting company, is ready to trial three different autonomous construction robots.The robots will be used to fill the gap of the generation of Japanese workers entering retirement.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will soon have a new crew member to interact with, a ball-sized robot dubbed 'Cimon'.
Daisy can take apart up to 200 iPhone devices per hour, removing and sorting components, so that Apple can recover materials that traditional recyclers can’t — and at a higher quality.
Engineers were able to use robots to assemble a chair from IKEA, intended for human assembly. Robots with force sensors and a 3-D camera independently found grooves and coordinated actions to help each other.
Britain is in a strong position to be a world leader in the development of artificial intelligence. But to get there—and to keep AI safe and ethical—tech firms should follow the Committee’s newly proposed “AI Code.”
The lifelike movements of the robot mean it can navigate aquatic environments without triggering any discernible alarm among marine life.
The XPRIZE Foundation launches $10 million competition to build robot avatars that can be controlled from at least 100 kilometers away.
Robotics company releases video of the SpotMini, its four-legged and well-mannered machine.
Erica, a lifelike android designed to look like a 23-year-old woman, may soon become a TV news anchor in Japan.
Dr David Hanson, who created the life-sized Sophia, was quoted saying that the humanoid is already being used to help research autism and other diseases.
The algorithm, which uses natural-language processing, managed to beat human scores on the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD).
A new type of neural network made with memristors can dramatically improve the efficiency of teaching machines to think like humans.
The design evolution of Kuri, from prototype to consumer product, provides a fascinating glimpse into a new era of interaction between humans and increasingly sophisticated machines.
A Chinese robot has become the world’s first machine to pass a written medical exam, making futuristic ideas about robot doctors seem closer to reality.
