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This is a cyborg stingray. It’s as big as a penny, guided by a laser, and moves on its own when exposed to blue light. And it’s the brainchild of Kevin Kit Parker.

The saying in coding goes: if you have to do a job more than once, automate the task. Bots will one day unburden you from these tasks.

Researchers announce a potential breakthrough in using nanotechnology to fight cancer.

Tesla’s Elon Musk gives a grave warning to those trying to hold back self-driving car technology. According to him, we have it all backwards.

The Kardashev Scale measures the advancement of cosmic societies.

The thinking behind Turing Machines and “universal systems,” is being extended to build a new kind of physics. “Constructor Theory,” is being developed by David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto to better explain life. It even suggests why morality arose. 

Google’s DeepMind and the Future of Humanity Institute are trying to find a way for human operators to stay in control if artificial intelligence starts acting out. 

We are entering a new generation of prostheses. In years to come bionic limbs will become a reality. Soon the paralyzed and amputees will have limbs that they can use as if they were their real arms and legs. Learn more about this development and the technology behind it.

Does your doctor have the right to choose not to help you if they oppose the procedure you request? Several schools of thought offer differing answers.

Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) has sent in five robots to locate the spent fuel rods in one of the Fukushima plant’s buildings. However, the robots have gone dark. Operators believe radiation from the plant melted their wires.

The current buzz is that robots are set to take our jobs – whether we work on the factory floor or the halls of finance. What could possibly be next? Perhaps robots will even replace our children.

Creators of artificial intelligence measure how well machines can imitate human qualities like empathy, listening, affirmation, and love. Don’t reciprocate, says Sherry Turkle.

On this week’s episode of Think Again – a Big Think Podcast, Ethan Hawke and host Jason Gots discuss fatherhood, perpetual warfare, and the daily struggle between light and dark within every person.

With apps and digital connectivity ruling our lives, the need to physically be somewhere is less urgent. So what does this mean for robotic or driverless cars? Will the Millennial generation’s cold shoulder for cars affect the way they cost, look, and hit the market?

Three current trends hint at the future of global business: the rise of artificial intelligence, the shifting center of economic gravity from west to east, and new existential problems like obesity and climate change.

With gift ideas from as little as $11, there might be something to tickle anyone’s fancy. “It is worthy of notice that in Table VI the brighter variables have the longer […]

New analyses of data gathered by the 2001 Mars Odyssey rover reveals that water molecules are bound up in the very soil of Mars.  

Nanotech could revolutionize diagnostics, research and development, drug delivery, tissue repair, and so much more. But challenges remain, and certain threats may arise out of this new technology.   

A new generation of humanoid robots are coming in the 2020s, says innovation and industry expert Alec Ross. They will care for our aging populations and revolutionize manufacturing.

How autonomous weapons will be utilized in our military is uncertain. Paul Scharre shares why their future use on the battlefield should be carefully considered. 

Future clothing will make you look dazzling with amazing special effects.   

SETI is searching for the same signals humans were producing in the 1960s. Why wouldn’t aliens do better? “I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening […]

Tesla announced it’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system was involved in its first deadly crash on May 7, 2016. This marks the first fatality involving an autonomous vehicle. However, this tragedy should not hinder progress.

Healthcare, education, food production, and resource management will all have to change if we are to survive and thrive.   

Since the dawn of automation, robots have been taking human jobs. But a short period of unemployment has always been followed by new kinds of jobs to offset this loss. This scenario may not be the case in the future.

Robots could be considered legal drivers in the United States. This means human occupants inside the vehicle wouldn’t require a valid license in order to ride inside — the software would be the vehicle’s legal “driver.”

When the Viking landers ran their three experiments looking for life, one came up positive. That’s still a mystery. “This suggests a robust biological response. These analyses support the interpretation that […]

SuitX, a robotics company out of California, is making it possible for the injured to walk again. Exoskeletons are the next step in health care technology, advancing medical science beyond wheelchairs.

We’re looking back in time when we look across the light years, so what’s different between what we see and what’s really there? “I saw a star explode and send out […]

The evolution of driving might disconnect us from each other even more.