Robots & AI

Alphabet-backed Waymo is leading the robotaxi revolution, but Tesla’s new Cybercab could change everything.

AI chatbots may have certain advantages when roleplaying as our friends. They may also come with downsides that make our loneliness worse.

Flexport is using generative AI to read documents, talk to truckers, and create a “knowledge agent” that’s an expert in shipping.

From paint in tubes to typewriters to photography to digital art, the history of creativity is a history of disruptive technologies.

Louis Anslow

Columbia University’s new robot hand can deftly manipulate objects without seeing them, allowing it to work in complete darkness.

Self-organising networks of tiny silver wires appear to learn and remember in much the same way as the thinking hardware in our heads.

Zdenka Kuncic and Alon Loeffler

Online dating is so mainstream that you’re an outlier if you haven’t met your partner on an app — so why not AI?

Joris Van Ouytsel and Marco Dehnert

Built Robotics has unveiled an autonomous construction robot that speeds up the installation of utility-scale solar farms.

With healthcare, it is not enough to spot patterns: we need to understand biological mechanisms. Ai can help us do it.

Leroy Hood and Nathan Price

Nearly 40% of the time spent on domestic chores could be automated within a decade, researchers estimate.

Charlotte Edmond

MIT and Stanford researchers have completed the first real-world assessment of chatbot AI in the workplace

Google has rolled out a suite of coding capabilities for Bard AI in 20 different programming languages.

A first-of-its-kind soccer robot built by researchers at UCLA is heading to France to compete in the annual RoboCup.

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