The robots arrived years ago. They help build stuff in factories. They shuttle packages and products across the massive warehouses that drive Amazon's worldwide retail operation. And so much more.
Helicopters may be able to take off and land from places that fixed-wing airplanes can't, but those whirling exposed rotor blades still keep them out of tight spaces.
Why exactly is it that everyone seems not just okay, but downright gleeful at the thought of computers controlling virtually every aspect of our lives? Why are we running around paying to spy on ourselves?
Andrew Ng hands me a tiny device that wraps around my ear and connects to a smartphone via a small cable. It looks like a throwback--a smartphone earpiece without a Bluetooth connection. But it's really a glimpse of the future.
VertiGo is a wall-climbing robot that is capable of transitioning from the ground to the wall, created in collaboration between Disney Research Zurich and ETH. The robot has two tiltable propellers that provide thrust onto the wall, and four wheels.
Big-name scientists worry that runaway artificial intelligence could
pose a threat to humanity. Beyond the speculation is a simple question:
Are we fully in control of our technology?
When facial recognition tools are available to everyone, everywhere, their use will become ubiquitous and gradually put a net of control over unsuspecting users.
Boston Dynamics, a robotics company that's a part of Google X, itself a subsidiary of Alphabet, today posted a Christmas video that's best described as "unnerving."
Maybe it's time to rethink the stiff, mechanical movements of the popular "robot" dance: A new NASA video features the agency's humanoid R5 robot breaking it down on the dance floor to an epic techno beat.
Russia and China are creating highly autonomous weapons, more commonly referred to as killer robots, and it's putting pressure on the Pentagon to keep up, according to US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work.
Tech titans join forces to fund research into artificial intelligence that has a positive social impact - amid dire warnings that rapid, unexpected advances could kill off humankind
Can't find a partner? Don't worry, the 'sexbot', programmed to meet all your desires, is on its way. Eva Wiseman explores the troubling world of sex robots
Tesla founder Elon Musk, big-name venture capitalist Peter Thiel, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and several other notable tech names have launched a new artificial intelligence startup called OpenAI, assembling a particularly impressive array of
As frustrated as you might get that voice-controlled tools like Apple Siri and Microsoft Cortana don't always understand you, it used to be a lot worse.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is responsible for some of the world's most significant scientific and technological breakthroughs.