by admin | Jul 20, 2017 | Locomotion
A thick tendril snakes its way across a desk. It turns sharply, heading up to wrap its single, tube-like appendage around a valve that moves slowly under its pressure. Though it looks like the work of a sentient vine, it’s actually a robot: a soft, plant-inspired...
by admin | Jul 20, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence
Imagine you had a chance to tell 50 of the most powerful politicians in America what urgent problem you think needs prompt government action. Elon Musk had that chance this past weekend at the National Governors Association Summer Meeting in Rhode Island. He chose to...
by admin | Jul 20, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence
Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) were very much present at last week’s Rise Conference in Hong Kong. One of the highlights seemed to be two robots “debating” the future of humanity.These robots – Sophia and Han –- are from the Hanson Robotics company. Their...
by admin | Jul 20, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence
A San Diego-based company that believes “tomorrow’s robots will be intelligent autonomous machines that can take care of us,” which will be “as commonplace as computers and mobile phones are today” has raised $114 million in Series C funding led by SoftBank’s Vision...
by admin | Jul 20, 2017 | News
Wal-Mart and other large retailers, under pressure from Amazon, turn to technology to do workers’ rote tasks. More on this...
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