Humanoid robots are coming, and Ameca is designed to be the ideal platform to study human-robot interactions.
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In a state of “hyperwar,” accidents or unexpected AI decisions could lead to widespread devastation before humans could intervene.
Living is about staying busy.
It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
Bend it. Stretch it. Use it to conduct electricity.
Humanity is never fully in control of its creations. This lesson from Mary Shelley has remained relevant for over 200 years.
We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.
Will all robots think like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg?
But it’s still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.
The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.
A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.
These missions will put us one step closer to the ultimate goal: crewed trips to Mars.
AIs can imitate but not innovate — for now, at least.
Inspired by the group behaviors of simple animals, a team of roboticists has developed a new way for swarm robots to maneuver on land.
Smaller family networks, more great-grandparents, and fewer cousins.
The road from Kant to modern cognitive psychology has taught us much about our mental filtering systems.
Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.
The most technically impressive feats of animation often strike us as eerie instead of impressive, and it’s all thanks to the uncanny valley.
If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.
NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.
AI was key to making Moderna’s COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.
Unfortunately, the Lunar Ark project is an idea more at home in science fiction than science fact.
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The U.S. economy is creating thousands of new jobs each month–and overwhelmingly, most of them go to people with education beyond high school.
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The famous social robot is about to start rolling off the assembly line.
Giving speech to the speechless.
Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.