Moravec‘s Paradox

Even the Dark Knight didn't come close to defeating the blue cat robot. Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021, the 41st feature film in the Doraemon anime franchise, earned 281 million yen (2.37 million USD) on 229,000 admissions on its second weekend. It was 29 percent down from its opening weekend…

by Debra Werner — March 14, 2022 Agile Space Industries operates its own additive manufacturing and altitude testing facilities in Durango, Colorado. Credit: Agile Space Industries SAN FRANCISCO – Agile Space Industries, a Durango, Colorado company focused on in-space chemical propulsion, is additively manufacturing thrusters for robotic lunar landers being…

John Abraham’s upcoming action entertainer Attack has raised the anticipation levels higher ever since the launch of the teaser, trailer and first song 'Ik Tu Hai' from the movie. Helmed by Lakshya Raj Anand, Part 1 of Attack is a big-ticket franchise based on a world where future wars will be fought on technology and artificial…

If you read the news covering artificial intelligence (AI) developments on any given day, you may feel pangs of fear and dread. From the recent UN report on AI's potential to harm human rights to the use of AI in spyware to hack into journalists' phones, it can seem as though…

The gyrfalcon, capable of a stoop at 250km/h, clasps its target in its talons in mid-flight. The target happens to be a robotic crow passably resembling a potential meal. This isn’t about the raptor defending its territory but part of a rehabilitation program operating in Western Australia – that is…

Space startup Astrolab, led by ex-SpaceX manager and NASA engineer Jaret Matthews, has successfully tested a lunar rover prototype that can operate telerobotically or ferry around a crew of two astronauts. A full-scale prototype was lately tested in the California desert near Death Valley. The five-day field test (which included…

Physicists have discovered a new way to coat soft robots in materials that allow them to move and function in a more purposeful way. The research, led by the UK's University of Bath, is described today in Science Advances. Authors of the study believe their breakthrough modelling on 'active matter'…

While iRobot’s high-end robot vacuums like the s9 and j7 series are regarded widely as some of the best in the industry, the company’s mid-range offering doesn’t have the same stellar reputation because it’s missing a key feature — smart mapping. Thankfully, that’s no longer the case now that iRobot…

As fun as operating heavy machinery looks, complex machines like excavators require a trained and skilled operator to get a job done quickly and safely. But as the pool of trained operators continues to retire and diminish, the future of construction might be machinery upgraded with robotic smarts so they’re…

Virrage Images/Shutterstock Artificial intelligence has the potential to address a variety of life's problems, including helping doctors diagnose tricky health conditions and aiding scientists in sorting through troves of raw data. Gambling addiction is another issue A.I. may help humans tackle — though it can't necessarily stop someone from engaging…