Moravec‘s Paradox

Leaders are readers. It’s a mantra many of us heard growing up, and it turns out it’s true.  In particular, research suggests that leaders read to gain a competitive edge. Author Steve Siebold dedicated 30 years to studying 1,200 of the world’s richest, most…

Zac Freeland/Vox Demographics will determine who gets hit worst by automation. Policy will help curb the damage. The robots will someday take our jobs. But not all our jobs, and we don’t really know how many. Nor do we understand which jobs will be eliminated…

Financial institutions must address the issue of technological sustainability, especially with regard to data, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Although these new technologies have vast potential, businesses also need to understand their risks, social i…

The Drone Racing League recently held its first Human VS AI match, pitting a drone helmed by AI developed by Delft University of Technologys MavLab against one flown by human pilot Gabriel Kocher. Despite early race hype, MavLabs machine took a big L as Koche…

Drone racing with human pilots at the controls has quickly evolved from an underground hobby to a fully fledged professional sport. But for its 2019 season, the Drone Racing League introduced a new type of competition, calling on developers of autonomous dron…

SpaceX Dragon On Sunday morning, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) in orbit. The spacecraft's re-supply mission carried up 5,700 pounds of gear to the ISS, including equipment for 38 d…

(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — SpaceX made an early holiday delivery to the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing muscle-bound “mighty mice,” pest-killing worms and a smart, empathetic robot. The station commander, Italy’s Luca Parmitano, used a large ro…

This is SpaceXs 19th supply run for NASA. Forty mice are aboard, including eight mighty mice with twice the muscle mass of ordinary mice, according to the experiments chief scientist, Dr. Se-Jin Lee of the Jackson Laboratory in Farmington, Connecticut. Rese…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An intelligent robot equipped with emotion-sensing voice detectors was headed to the International Space Station after launching from Florida on Thursday, becoming the latest artificial intelligence-powered astronaut workmate in orbit. …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. SpaceX launched a 3-ton shipment to the International Space Station on Thursday, including mighty mice for a muscle study, a robot sensitive to astronauts' emotions and a miniature version of a brewery's malt house. The Dragon capsule al…