Moravec‘s Paradox

Some three students of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko(AAUA) have achieved a significant feat in the world of robotics as they have built a robotic dog.The students are of the Physics and Electronics Departments of the University and they came together to share ideas on how best they can…

Just because Apple refuses to make the switch to USB-C on its phones doesn’t mean all users are left despaired. Enter Ken Pillonel - a Master’s degree student of robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) who single-handedly converted a regular Lightning-equipped iPhone X into the first Apple…

Baron von Brunk is at it again. We know that sounds like the beginning of a video game about shooting evil guys who definitely aren't Nazis but kind of are, but Baron von Brunk is a REAL MAN, whose actual name is Julius von Brunk, and he makes LEGO transformers.…

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has announced the launch of its Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health, aimed at enhancing opportunities for collaboration among medical and computer scientists. Billed as the foremost department of its kind within a medical school, the department will train the next…

Cloud services provide resources on a massive scale to support artificial intelligence and machine learning efforts, but a hybrid approach may be the best course in many cases. That requires an enterprise architecture approach to get everything right. Photo: Joe McKendrick "We're seeing a lot of companies kind of doing…

Posted by Jason Cartwright on October 11, 2021 CSIRO’s Data61 is the dedicated data & digital arm of Australia’s national science agency and they are recruiting more than 60 new roles. If you’re keen to work with a group of really talented people to solve some of Australia’s greatest challenges…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. We still have a long way to go before we realize the dream and have robot assistants like the Jetsons. I’m talking about robots that can tackle anything and…

The last two episodes of What If…? Season 1 (read our What If...? season finale review) saw Ultron, or at least a variant thereof, return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Of course, the Avengers villain made his big-screen debut in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, a debut that was greeted…

If you've ever had the misfortune of following along with Esquire's Westworld coverage, you will know that the show is the harbinger of my pandemic nightmares. It once made me spend hours looking at robot gumball brains, wondering who the hell they belonged to, and exists mainly as an alleged…

A look back at the decades since that meeting shows how often AI researchers' hopes have been crushed—and how little those setbacks have deterred them. Today, even as AI is revolutionizing industries and threatening to upend the global labor market, many experts are wondering if today's AI is reaching its…