Boston Dynamics’ robot dog can now moonwalk to Uptown Funk
Boston Dynamics is wowing us again with the amazing things its robots can do. Last week, it was about Atlas’s
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Robotics
See a bizarre robot make a building out of loose rocks and string
No cement. No nails. No screws. This robot arm needs just two things to build structures: gravel, and a really,
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Here are 5 ways for workers to win in the robot age
Machines and algorithms will do more current tasks than humans by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum’s Future of
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Why Google defined a new discipline to help humans make decisions
Machine-learning systems are only as smart as their training data. So Google formalized the marshaling of hard and soft sciences
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AI has huge potential – but it won’t solve all our problems
Hysteria about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. There is no shortage of sensationalist news about how AI
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Oops! This MIT robot knows it made a mistake by reading human brainwaves
The robot detects brainwave patterns that are generated subconsciously. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a robot
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This crazy-looking robot is the chef at a new burger joint
Creator, a new restaurant in San Francisco, is home to the world’s first entirely robot-made burger. It costs $6–and it’s
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Robot Cities: Three Urban Prototypes for Future Living
Before I started working on real-world robots, I wrote about their fictional and historical ancestors. This isn’t so far removed
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The 10 Grand Challenges Facing Robotics in the Next Decade
Robotics research has been making great strides in recent years, but there are still many hurdles to the machines becoming
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Honda set to launch a family of robots at CES 2018
Each year the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) sees the launch of ground-breaking, innovative and sometimes downright unusual inventions and products
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