Moravec‘s Paradox

In its 10th edition, Maker Faire Austin takes making into the next dimension: This years’ faire is all about the 3d, augmented reality, robots and drones, and artificial intelligence! With over 60 exhibits and well over 100 makers, Maker Faire Austin features…

The Gorge Tech Alliance is bringing TEDx speaker Charles Jennings to present on the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) today and what it means for attendees businesses. The event is May 8 at The Ruins, 13 Railroad Ave., Hood River, and includes networking…

Some good news: The robots aren’t coming for your job. Experts say fears that rapid advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation will leave all of us unemployed are vastly overstated. But concerns over growing inequality and the lack…

A Tribeca Film Festival attendee experiences Bonfire in an installation.  Sarah Tew/CNET Last week, I befriended a fuzzy pink alien that my robot sidekick and I nicknamed Pork Bun. We played fetch around a bonfire and munched on virtual marshmallows. Pork B…

Anki, the robotics company behind Vector, is shutting down, a report said. Sarah Tew/CNET Robotics company Anki will apparently close its doors on Wednesday. The San Francisco-based maker of adorable mini-robots Vector and Cosmo will lay off its entire sta…

UiPath, a “robotic process automation” (RPA) platform that helps companies automate repetitive software-based tasks, has raised $568 million in a series D round of funding led by hedge fund Coatue Management, with participation from Alphabet’s CapitalG, Sequo…

Companies are on the hunt for ways to reduce the time and money it costs their employees to perform repetitive tasks, so today a startup that has built a business to capitalize on this is announcing a huge round of funding to double down on the opportunity. …

Anki, the San Francisco-based robotics and artificial intelligence startup, has announced that it will be closing its doors. Despite being featured on-stage at Apple events and raising more than $200 million in funding, the company says it has run out of mone…

All you need is love,I want to know what love is, I want you to show me, Foreigner sang. Bad Company crooned: Im ready for love. Oh baby, Im ready for love... These lyrics comprise but a drop in the bucket when it comes to the vast number of odes…

Shadow Robot Company Somewhere in North London, in an anonymous office block on a nondescript road in the U.K.s capital city, a robot hand is tapping out a message on a keyboard. Hello, World it writes, a geeky reference to the basic computing program often …