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Scientists weigh in on the controversy.

Two British economists argue that the plummeting birth rate combined with increased life expectancy worldwide will cause a labor shortage in the upcoming decades.

We will need a good dose of healthy stoicism if we are to survive in the world after work. 

Set self-driving car to “kill.”

Self-driving cars aren’t the only emerging technology facing major questions about ethics and accountability.

Volvo is spearheading an effort to develop refuse robots and tech-enhanced dump trucks to revolutionize waste management.

They cannot thrive in the current ecosystem.

Experimentation-out-of-love is often inefficient and hard to measure. It isn’t always “solution-oriented.” But it’s as necessary and natural to us as breathing, and all too easily swept under the rug. 

Culturally and economically, modern Turkey is at a dangerous crossroads.

We’re better at teaching robots to reason than we are at getting them to perceive. That’s good for human laborers in industries that value the latter.

Our grandparents shouldn’t lose out on life just because they age.

This is a great way of understanding the difference between artificial intelligence and genuine intelligence, i.e., human intelligence.

How Futurism gave us the word “robot,” the movie Metropolis, and this map of the body as a factory.

Author and entrepreneur Jerry Kaplan offers an interesting crash course on computational ethics, the idea that robots and machines will require programming to make them cognizant of morals, decorum, manners, and various other social nuances.

How does he deliver presents to hundreds of millions of households in just one night? With physics, of course! “Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to […]

Learning how to code will get you a job and a salary. More importantly, it allows you the freedom of understanding that you can solve problems that seem overwhelming.

How the biggest NASA mission of the decade will solve some of the Universe’s greatest mysteries. “Now the world has gone to bed,Darkness won’t engulf my head,I can see by […]

AI will throw a wrench into many of our theological foundations. How will we adapt? 

One researcher explores the ethics of tomorrow through the science fiction stories that entertain us today.

Human motorists can’t handle their do-goodery driving.

Who will care for you in old age? Given dramatically lower fertility rates and population aging, combined with the high cost of caregiving, the future of eldercare and senior housing may be in for a big change. Can you imagine a future where robots provide care to older adults? Whether you think it cool, or creepy, the future may begin on July 17th when the Henn-na Hotel in Japan opens with a mostly robotic staff — is senior housing next?

It was a dark and stormy night when a car accident was prevented by very cool technology.

A discovery that never would have happened with robots instead of humans. “It’s like trying to describe what you feel when you’re standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or […]

Researchers outfitted him with a system that filtered out electrical signals through an algorithm to isolate brain waves dealing with leg movement.

Researchers found kids will assault a robot, even when it pleads for its abusers to stop.

Carly Fiorina is rising in the polls and raising Donald Trump’s ire, likely resulting in a Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robot Edition of the GOP debates.

“You’ll never get a good job, son, if you’re smoking pot all the time!” That’s a scolding you won’t hear in the future.  

Hillary Clinton continually tweaks her public image, but there is a greater cost to not knowing who you are: We don’t know, either. 

The threat is real and many scientists and engineers are standing behind them.

If you live in China, Finland, or Switzerland, you could be closer to receiving your packages from flying robots. Meanwhile, the FAA is not taking action on drone regulation.