Moravec‘s Paradox

By NASA November 4, 2020 This is what it looks like to punch an asteroid. Last month, NASA’s robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx descended toward, thumped into, and then quickly moved away from the small near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu. This video depicts the Touch-And-Go (TAG) sampling event over a three-hour period. As…

E1: Yann LeCuncolor> Artificial Intelligence VS Cats We train machines for a particular task and they can be very good at this particular task, in fact, better than humans sometimes, but you modify the task just a little bit and they fail. Intelligence, it turns out, is hard to recreate.…

The food and beverage industry is a tough line to be in—from intense competition to rising manpower and rental costs and now, a global pandemic. According to Enterprise Singapore, only 60% of small F&B businesses survive in their first five years of operation, and a third of F&B outlets are replaced…

Real-time health monitoring and sensing abilities of robots require soft electronics, but the challenge of using such materials lies in their reliability. Unlike rigid devices, being elastic and pliable makes their performance less repeatable. The variation in reliability is known as hysteresis. Guided by the theory of contact mechanics, a…

Alita wrecking. Image: 20th Century FoxAs a woman who is also at least part robot, I have a deep-held affinity for Alita. Her first film outing (hopefully not her last) didn’t check every box, but it was a lot of fun. And it sure was visually striking, with some intense…

In the new horror movie Come Play, John Gallagher Jr. plays Marty, whose son communes with an otherworldly presence named Larry. Focus Features This story is part of I'm So Obsessed (subscribe here), our podcast featuring interviews with actors, artists, celebrities and creative types about their work, career and current…

Lamborghini 2020 EVO RWDRobert Frank | CNBCIn the age of Zoom meetings, Grub Hub orders, Netflix movies and Amazon shopping, we're all craving a little less virtual living and more real fun.Which is why the 2020 Lamborghini EVO RWD has arrived at the perfect moment."EVO" stands for "evolution," since it's…

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have come a long way in recent years, with solid business cases, powerful algorithms, vast compute resources, and rich data sets now the norm for many enterprises. However, AI managers and specialists are still grappling with seemingly insurmountable organizational and ethical issues that are hamstringing…

iRobot Roomba i3+ Robot Vacuum “Cleaning is done efficiently and without intervention thanks to its auto dirt disposal system.” Excellent cleaning performance Efficiently cleans to save time Auto dirt disposal system Great at avoiding obstacles Can't create virtual boundaries Sounds obnoxiously loud emptying You don’t need to have ever owned…

In the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “The Measure of a Man,” Data, an android crew member of the Enterprise, is to be dismantled for research purposes unless Captain Picard can argue that Data deserves the same rights as a human being. Naturally the question arises: What is the basis upon which something…