Moravec‘s Paradox

If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Alas, poor Bastion! I knew him, Torbjorn Robot damage hero Bastion has been unplayable in Overwatch 2 for the past week due to some unfortunate shenanigans with his artillery ultimate.…

A Twitter post featuring a video of a robot dog firing a gun that’s racked up nearly 120,000 likes since July. Videos of Ukrainian soldiers apparently modifying off-the-shelf drones to airdrop weapons. An art project featuring Spot, the Boston Dynamics robot most known for viral dancing videos, outfitted with a…

When it comes to self-driving cars, there are still plenty of concerns ranging from safety and technology to price and availability. But one robotaxi company wants potential riders to imagine what switching to self-driving cars might look like as it readies to drive around more cities’ streets. As it gets…

According to a report by the Intercept published Monday, an Oakland police spokesperson said that despite objections from a civilian oversight board, the department still has its sights on using said robots. The police department needs permission from a "governing body," per California law, to use military-grade percussion-activated non-electric (or PAN)…

GENEVA (AP) — For their first trip to a celebrated robotics contest for high school students from scores of countries, a team of Ukrainian teens had a problem. With shipments of goods to Ukraine uncertain, and Ukrainian customs officers careful about incoming merchandise, the group only received a base kit…

The robots are coming. Literally. A fleet of knee-high food delivery robots will soon be scooting around Chicago sidewalks following the expansion of a University of Illinois pilot program. The white, compact bots with little orange flags and vaguely tortoise-like bodies will bleep-bloop food from participating businesses to locations within…

And now the game of submarine hide-and-seek may be approaching the point at which submarines can no longer elude detection and simply disappear. It may come as early as 2050, according to a recent study by the National Security College of the Australian National University, in Canberra. This timing is…

As Verne understood, the U.S. Civil War (during which 60,000 amputations were performed) inaugurated the modern prosthetics era in the United States, thanks to federal funding and a wave of design patents filed by entrepreneurial prosthetists. The two World Wars solidified the for-profit prosthetics industry in both the United States…

The project seeks to develop AI solutions to improve the energy usage of 5G networks Ericsson Canada announced a research program led by three Montreal-based universities, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Concordia University, Polytechnique Montréal, as well as with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). The research program will explore…

Fact’s Fall/Winter ’22 issue explores how artificial intelligence is being used by artists in unconventional, exciting ways. Rabit, VTSS, Richard Mosse and Universal Everything feature on the covers of the fourth print edition of Fact, an ever-evolving platform for artists working at the intersection of the physical and virtual, pushing…