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A human-sounding telemarketer says she is real. Can you tell from this recording?

Instead of predicting what a human might do, this computer is incredibly fast at recognizing what a human is doing. 

While this robot may provide security, some experts also fear its monitoring capabilities will further erode personal privacy.

Scientists put an interactive robot in an enclosure inhabited by 16 chimpanzees. Their reactions were surprisingly similar to those of humans, opening up potential new ways to observe them without humans being present.

Hamilton Nolan, a Gawker writer I greatly respect but who I’ve disagreed with before, has a new post up regarding using Tweets publicly. I here want to respond to one […]

This “autonomous pack horse” is designed to interact with troops in a “natural way” like a trained animal would. 

Over 270 robotics researchers have signed on to a proposed ban on weapons systems that can fire “without a human in the loop.”

Dear Strange Maps, This really is the strangest, or perhaps most curious, map I’ve ever seen: Spam is almost as smart as chimpanzees these days. It gets harder and harder […]

Political and economic changes have a way of getting into people’s heads. Once-new tools come to feel as natural as the hands that pick them up; once-new rules, ingrained in […]

The extent to which human beings are willing to be duped by computers is already very large.  

Google is looking to build an artificial brain, a fact that “some may consider thrilling and others deeply unsettling. Or both.”

As the population of cities continues to grow, real estate runs out fast. But one innovative solution may be the wave of the future: building down! “It is not the beauty […]

An MIT scientist has succeeded in creating mini-cubes that have no external parts yet are able to move and assemble themselves into larger shapes. Possible applications include repairing damaged buildings and exploring dangerous terrain.

The AI company Vicarious has created an algorithm that can solve CAPTCHA “with greater than 90% accuracy.”

China is a manufacturing powerhouse. However, the middle kingdom has a new manufacturing challenge – can it produce enough children to change a demographic destiny that may threaten its future […]

We all feel bad for Pluto, but it had its demotion coming. “I have announced this star as a comet, but since it is not accompanied by any nebulosity and, further, […]

Being only 12, Agrawal’s version of an iRobot is not designed to do household chores but rather, deliver potato chips.

Designed by a team of University of Pennsylvania students, the Titan Arm just received a $45,000 award from the James Dyson Foundation.

Guest post by Todd Norton   (Cross post from toddnorton.me) If there is one thing I have learned as a teacher, it is that someone outside of the classroom is always […]

Your computer will be an assistant that helps you through the day, will answer your questions before you ask them or even before you realize you have a question

When things change dramatically we resist it at first and then we adapt and then we love the change. 

M-Blocks are small robotic cubes that have no exterior moving parts. But they are able to propel themselves, climb on top of each other and form all kinds of shapes. 

To take an idea and put it into Earth’s orbit requires the dedication of an incredible amount of time, energy, and resources to not only the payload itself, but also […]

New research suggests that the “automaton-like” nature of the typical immersive video game avatar can desensitize players to their own pain and that of others, regardless of the level of violence in the game.

The last above-ground map of the ancient water system was completed a century ago. Now, a group of scientists is using 21st-century technology to provide the first-ever map containing both underground and surface data.

Kirobo, a robot whose name is derived from the Japanese words for “hope” and “robot,” has made its first appearance at the International Space Station.

We’ve seen more and more human functions be transferred to machines, to robots, to computers, we haven’t all in fact grown poorer. 

Together, the fleet of drones spent all of six hours taking over 2,000 high-resolution photos, which were then assembled into a 300-million-point 3D model.

Meet e-David (Drawing Apparatus for Vivid Image Display), a robot who is programmed to copy works of art.

Even the White House is getting involved in YouTube’s “Geek Week,” hosting a special We the Geeks: Robots Hangout today at 2:00 pm EDT for “a conversation about the state of American robotics and the possibilities for robots to improve life on Earth.”