Moravec‘s Paradox

Although small, invertebrates have an outsized influence on their environments, pollinating plants, breaking down organic matter and speeding up nutrient cycling. And what they lack in stature, they make up for in diversity. With more than 1 million known species, insects alone vastly outnumber all other invertebrates and vertebrates combined.…

Home News Spaceflight A tiny robot known as MIRA will be blasting off to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024 to perform simulated surgical procedures in microgravity. MIRA, or "Miniaturized in vivo Robotic Assistant," will fly to the International Space Station thanks to a $100,000 award to the University…

No More Robots’ extreme downhill freeriding experience Descenders ($9.99) just hit mobile platforms this month through Noodlecake Games as a premium release. This is No More Robots’ first game on mobile. Following the game’s release on both iOS and Android, I had a chance to talk to No More Robots…

South Korea’s logistics and restaurant industries are becoming leading sectors in robot adoption as labor shortages and a hike in the minimum wage prompt many companies to introduce work robots. Major logistics companies have introduced transport robots to streamline package handling. A big food delivery service provider and a convenience…

Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. Apply to role › About the roleAs a mechanical engineer at Charge Robotics, you’ll own a significant chunk of the ground-up development for a new robotic system that assembles solar farms. You'll work with very large industrial hardware, become an armchair expert…

Teaching robots to understand language turns out to help them deal with the open-ended complexity of the real world, Google has discovered. The tech giant has grafted its latest artificial intelligence technology for handling language, called PaLM, onto robots from Everyday Robots, one of the experimental divisions from parent company…

A heat wave like the one Calgarians are currently sweating through can make spending your day in a restaurant kitchen quite a challenge. An example of that is Pizza Culture, where pizzas are made in the traditional style, old-fashioned all the way. “The oven’s straight from Napoli, Italy,” Pizza Culture…

Toyota Research Institute Gill Pratt, Toyota’s Chief Scientist and the CEO of TRI, believes that robots have a significant role to play in assisting older people by solving physical problems as well as providing mental and emotional support. With a background in robotics research and five years as a program…

Mark Godfrey, Carly Whitefield, Elvia Wilk and Anicka Yi | Tate, 2021 | Book Hyundai Commission 2021: Anicka YiThe In Love With The World 2021 exhibition catalog features a captivating short story by Elvia Wilk that reimagines facets of the endeavor in a speculative future space, as well as remarkable…

Image: onurdongel / GettyImagesResearchers at Everyday Robots are tapping large-scale language models to help robots avoid misconstruing human communications in ways that might trigger inappropriate or even dangerous actions. Google Research and Alphabet-owned Everyday Robots integrate what they call 'SayCan' (language models with real-world grounding in pre-trained skills) and its largest…