Moravec‘s Paradox

The second planet from the Sun, Venus, went through a climate change process that transformed it from an Earth-like environment to a barren world. According to researchers, studying Venus can help model the evolution of climate on Earth and serve as a reference for what can happen in the future.…

Serve Robotics An autonomous sidewalk delivery company is announcing the closing of a seed funding round with some big backers. Serve Robotics joins a rapidly expanding list of autonomous delivery developers wooing investors with the notion of robots conducting last mile deliveries in urban and suburban areas. The autonomous delivery ecosystem has…

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China is poised to gain on the US in the fields of AI, 5G, quantum information science, semiconductors, biotechnology and green energy In some areas, China is already leading the US, according to a report from the Harvard Kennedy School Read More

BUSAN, South Korea —  Son Eun-ji’s newborn son will begin the first months of his life in a sci-fi-like home in the middle of a sparse river delta that was until recently sprawling fields of scallions. The young family will move early next year into an experimental project showcasing South Korea’s…

Operational robot stock in food and beverage manufacturing has almost doubled since 2014, according to the latest data from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). Now, over 90,000 robots are in use in the global food and beverage manufacturing industry, picking and packing confectionery or placing different toppings on fresh…

We're in a new era of spaceflight: The national space agencies are no longer the only game in town, and space is becoming more accessible. Rockets built by commercial players like Blue Origin are now bringing private citizens into orbit. That said, Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic are all…

The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) seems almost unbounded in its ability to derive and drive new sources of customer, product, service, operational, environmental, and societal value. If your organization is to compete in the economy of the future, then AI must be at the core of your business operations.  A…

The steel industry put Pittsburgh on the map, leveraging its natural bounties in coal and strategic location at the intersection of three rivers to satisfy America's unquenchable thirst for steel to build bridges, factories, buildings and automobiles. Once again Pittsburgh finds itself in the right place at the right time…

Home News A knot and a graph representing the problems that the artificial intelligence program DeepMind tackled. (Image credit: DeepMind) The artificial intelligence (AI) program DeepMind has gotten closer to proving a math conjecture that's bedeviled mathematicians for decades and revealed another new conjecture that may unravel how mathematicians understand…