Moravec‘s Paradox

Russia’s David Belyavskiy in action (Source: Reuters) By Andrew Keh The rectangular gray boxes arrayed around the floor at the gymnastics world championships this week are easy enough to ignore. But these little boxes, 30 of them in all, hold outsize signi…

Spot is getting ready to run with the big dogs.Spot is Boston Dynamics first major robot to be released into the wild, according to a September 24 report by the Verge. Engineers at the robotics research company see this as …

As artificial intelligence, or AI, moves further and further into a future we only dared to dream of before, we now have to find ways to coexist with our robot counterparts. The robots are shaping up to adapt to our nature in a way only other humans could pr…

Netflix has set a December 24 launch date for Season 2 of Lost In Space, the streaming service’s family adventure series. The news came as the cast and crew talked up the upcoming season during its panel Saturday at New York Comic Con, where a teaser preview …

At SP Robotics Maker Lab in Nallagandla, Jasper greets visitors at entrance. Standing at 4.5 feet tall, she is a six-wheel 30 kilogram bluetooth controlled delivery robot that can carry upto 50 kilogram of items in her belly. Say hello to Jasper; meet my new …

Getty PricewaterhouseCoopers, the large accounting and management consulting firm, released a startling report indicating that workers will be highly impacted by the fast-growing rise of artificial intelligence, robots and related technologies. Banking and …

If elected, the Green Party of Canada will enact a robot tax that will get companies to pay a tax every time it replaces a human with a machine. The tax would be equivalent to the income tax that the laid-off employee would pay. GPC Leader Elizabeth May sai…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Why your next job interview will be with a robot. Coming to a cubicle near you: robot co-workers. These are the sort of attention-grabbing headlines that spark panic in …

By Colonel Walter Frank Coppersmith With the arrival of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) on the 21st century battlefield, the nature of warfare is poised for dramatic change. Overseen by artificial intelligence (AI), fueled by terabytes of data and ope…

Image credit – Peter Means/Virginia Tech As realistic as some robots can look, it can be obvious that they are still robots namely due to their movements which can come across looking unnatural. This is because unlike humans, robots do not possess the muscle…