Moravec‘s Paradox

Home News Scientists will deploy two robot gliders like this one to study iceberg A-68a. (Image: © David White/ BAS) The world's largest iceberg, A-68a, may be mere days away from crashing into the Antarctic wildlife refuge of South Georgia island, and researchers are already preparing for the aftermath. According…

Zoox, the self-driving start-up owned by Amazon.com and co-founded by Australian Tim Kentley-Klay, unveiled a fully autonomous electric vehicle with no steering wheel that can drive day and night on a single charge.The vehicle, which Zoox describes as a driverless carriage or robotaxi, can carry as many as four passengers.…

Back in October 1950, British techno-visionary Alan Turing published an article called "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," in the journal MIND that raised what at the time must have seemed to many like a science-fiction fantasy. "May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which…

Hyundai takes a controlling stake in an iconic robotics company, Twitter acquires a screen-sharing startup and we round up some security-themed gift ideas. This is your Daily Crunch for December 11, 2020. The big story: Hyundai acquires 80% stake in Boston Robotics Boston Robotics is behind a number of impressive…

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(Reuters) — Hyundai and its chair have agreed to buy an 80% stake in robot maker Boston Dynamics from SoftBank, Hyundai said on Friday. Hyundai said the deal values the robot firm at $1.1 billion, suggesting the automaker group offered $880 million for the 80% stake. Hyundai can leverage robot…

Virtual Reality is something most of us have been able to experience at home, or at a friends house. While the experience is compelling, for many, they’d struggle to justify the cost, or space for a permanent VR setup at home. Thankfully VR as a destination is proving to be…

Although robots and robotics have become hot topics in recent years, the actual robots that make it to the news aren’t exactly like the robots of Hollywood. Flying drones, delivery bots, concierge bots, and even waiter bots all share in the same basic nature but are quite far removed from…