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The layoff alphabet hits the garbage sorting robot
teach robots to open a door, and it will open opportunities in life. Not so for one of the Alphabetyoungest…
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A robot finds more trouble under a doomsday glacier
Scientists have accurate estimates of the position of the retreating ground line, thanks to satellites that track small changes in…
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Amazon’s New Sparrow Robot Can Handle Most Items in the Everything Store
Amazon built an e-commerce empire by automating much of the work needed to move goods and pack orders in its…
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Elon Musk’s half-baked robot is a clumsy first step
Several robotics experts watching saw a project that seemed to be rapidly accelerating. Stefanie Tellex, an assistant professor at Brown…
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GM’s Cruise recalls self-driving software linked to June crash
Autonomous driving company Cruise and US regulators said today that Synthetic engine The subsidiary recalled software deployed on 80 vehicles…
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The end of the astronauts — and the rise of the robot
How much do do we need humans in space? How much do we want them there? Astronauts are the embodiment…
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Too many emails? Let your bot respond; it can be better than you at it
As artificial intelligence continues to improve, we humans will have to decide what we are comfortable letting it do. What…
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The history — and unsettling resurgence — of black Android
In the 1930s, Westinghouse produced “Mechanical Blacks,” also known by a racist slur. Powered by electricity, that android bowed to…
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