Moravec‘s Paradox

SPACE Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Build One Starship a Week—and Settle MarsEric Berger | Ars Technica “Musk always wants to go fast. He will not live forever, and the money may eventually run dry. He knows this. One day, the window to spread humanity to Mars may close, but…

Nearly 60 years after Americans watched cartoon mother of the future Judy Jetson have a machine prepare a full meal with the press of a few buttons, a robotics company in Somerville is turning that science fiction into reality. Dexai Robotics has unveiled a robot sous chef that uses artificial…

One view is that in the world of abundance we would all act as the British upper class acted, as portrayed in the books off Jane Austen. But even there the fear of descending in the class hierarchy—of failing to marry well, or marrying a husband whose gambling and debauchery…

Healthcare artificial intelligence market is estimated to be US$ 3,120 Mn in 2018 and is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 25.9% over the forecast period owing to digitalization of medical device and patient registriesPUNE, India, March 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In terms of revenue, the global healthcare artificial intelligence…

Rutgers engineers have created a tabletop device that combines a robot, artificial intelligence and near-infrared and ultrasound imaging to draw blood or insert catheters to deliver fluids and drugs. Their most recent research results, published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, suggest that autonomous systems like the image-guided robotic device…

Over the past few years I’ve had many opportunities to speak on the subject of technology—a natural consequence of having written a book called The Next Story: Faith, Friends, Family, and the Digital World. I almost invariably end my speeches with a time of Q&A and one question I can…

Outsourcing human decisions to computers used to bear a glimmer of hope for a more equal society: a robot cannot tell the difference between genders, geographies or skin colours and it will treat everyone equally, right?Wrong. And the wake-up was quite harsh as we realised that an algorithm is only…

Airline staff can communicate with customers through the screen on a robot. Photo: robotstart.info All Nippon Airways (ANA), the largest airline in Japan, recently announced it was deploying 1,000 robots in shopping malls, tourist attractions, museums and hospitals in Tokyo before the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The robot, named “Newme,”…

Over the years, humans have predicted fantastical feats would be achieved by 2020, from robot servants to public space travel. Now that 2020 is here, some of the accomplishments are different—but still grand. In the decade ahead, transformational technologies that better meet constituent needs will define the missions of local…

In the months leading up to Christmas of 1998, parents assembled in droves to buy their children a furry, talking, animal-like toy—equal parts gerbil, owl, and gremlin. It was no bigger than a Nerf basketball, and had wide, blinking eyes with long lashes. From late October 1998 to the end…