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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.

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

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 […]

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

Could we redesign shopping as a system of “catch-and-release,” so that, like sport fishing, it’s the adventure and not the prize that becomes central?

Researchers use Minecraft as a testing ground for a new algorithm that will help robots make better decisions.

The Star Trek computer is close. Phasers can’t be far behind.

We have the ability to reach many more people than ever before in history with our stupidity.

New robot seeks to bring convenience to your life, and can master new tasks on the fly.

Work isn’t life, but it is certainly not in a company’s best interest to de-prioritize itself for the sake of its workers. What’s the solution?