Moravec‘s Paradox

Knuckles takes on our blue hero in Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Paramount Pictures When I was a kid, in the '90s, Sonic the Hedgehog represented adventure. My friends and I spent summers huddled around a Sega Genesis (well, we called it a Mega Drive), trying to dash through everything the…

Artist's depiction of a future Tesserae self-assembling space station in orbit around Mars. MIT Space Exploration Initiative / TU Dortmund Fraunhofer Institute On Friday SpaceX launched the first fully private mission to the International Space Station, but the newly minted astronauts won't just be playing tourists in orbit. Instead, they'll…

Have you got a sore back from all that vacuuming? Tired of cleaning up after your kids and pets? Get yourself the Greenworks GRV-1010 Robot Vacuum and save yourself the trouble! With household hygiene uppermost in the minds of consumers in the wake of the global pandemic, the domestic electronics…

The ability to make decisions autonomously is not just what makes robots useful, it's what makes robots robots. We value robots for their ability to sense what's going on around them, make decisions based on that information, and then take useful actions without our input. In the past, robotic decision…

Miami Mayor and extreme crypto fanatic Francis Suarez presented an 11-foot, 3,000-pound bull monument inspired by the historic Wall Street statue. But with Bitcoin laser eyes and other “ultramodern robotic” characteristics on the first day of the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami. The monument, according to Suarez, is a “symbolic…

Dive Brief: A portion of a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to the University of Michigan will look at whether robots could be used as assistants to human workers on construction sites.  Working with machines and technology from Germany-based manufacturer KUKA, the project aims to allow human workers to…

Space can be ruthless and unforgiving, which is why Starfield’s adorable robot companion VASCO will make interplanetary travel less lonely. On Tuesday, Bethesda Game Studios released a behind-the-scenes trailer detailing VASCO, one of Starfield’s new companion characters. VASCO is an expeditionary robot that’ll aid you while traversing the stars.  This…

3 minute read 5/4/2022 | 08:10pm Rangers boss Gio van Bronckhorst could be on his way to having a very busy summer at Ibrox if he fails to win the title. Failure to secure the league title would suggest that the squad is not in the right place to dominate…

A byte-sized introduction. A new behind the scenes video for Starfield has been revealed, with robot companion VASCO taking centre stage. In this video, shared by IGN, Starfield lead artist Istvan Pely introduces us all to one of his "favourite campanions in the game". Here, Pely states VASCO is a…

by Andrew Rush — April 4, 2022 llustration of (On-Orbit Servicing, Manufacturing and Assembly-2. Credit: Redwire Illustration of the On-Orbit Servicing, Manufacturing and Assembly-2 spacecraft. Credit: Redwire The benefits of in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) have long been championed. From satellite refueling, to recycling of orbital debris, to increasing…