Moravec‘s Paradox

Zijiao Chen can read your mind, with a little help from powerful artificial intelligence and an fMRI machine. Chen, a doctoral student at the National University of Singapore, is part of a team of researchers that has shown they can decode human brain scans to tell what a person is…

Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in late November, technology companies including Microsoft and Google have been racing to offer new artificial intelligence tools and capabilities. But where is that race leading?  Historian Yuval Hararia—author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, and Unstoppable Us—believes that when it comes to “deploying humanity’s most consequential technology,”…

Levi’s is partnering with an AI company on computer-generated fashion models to “supplement human models.” The company frames the move as part of a “digital transformation journey” of diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability. Although that sounds noble on the surface, Levi’s is essentially hiring a robot to generate the appearance…

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Robotics Summit & Expo: 10–11 May 2023, BOSTONICRA 2023: 29…

SUBSCRIBE: Apple | Spotify Listen to Episode One of this three-part Science, Quickly Fascination here. Transcript Allison Parshall: As a kid, I was something of a composer. Please brace yourself for Mozart-level brilliance. Parshall: As you can hear, I was a lyrical genius. And I did stick with it. In high school I…

Teleoperating a physical robot could become an important job in future, according to Sanctuary AI, based in Vancouver, Canada. The company also believes that this might provide a way to train robots how to perform tasks that are currently well out of their (mechanical) reach, and imbue machines with a physical sense…

On a cold morning, swallowed up in the gray and brown landscape that is winter in Brooklyn, I rose from my unkempt bed on a mission. I had just finished up a documentary project tracking the rise and eventual fall of one of America’s most extreme neo-Nazi terror groups (it’s…

Santiago, Chile – WEBWIRE – Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - Expansion of the regional partnership with the French sports retailer in Chile - New Santiago Fulfilment Center with state-of-the-art robotics enables productivity to be tripled in omnichannel order pickin Kuehne+Nagel, one of the world’s leading logistics companies, has signed a…

SUBSCRIBE: Apple | Spotify Transcript Allison Parshall: This is Scientific American’s Science, Quickly. I’m Allison Parshall. I’m going to play you a song. And I’m willing to bet good money that you’ve never heard anything like it before. Parshall: So listening to this for the first time, I was intrigued and also baffled.…

Built Robotics, inventor of the exosystem for autonomous trenching, has introduced the RPD 35: the world's first fully autonomous solar piling system. With the RPD 35, Built Robotics says that utility-scale solar foundations can be constructed up to five times faster than with traditional means and methods. Piling is a…