April 10, 2017 Japan and the US are having a giant robot duel We finally know when the giant robot duel, pitting California-based robotics company MegaBots against Japanese robotics company Suidobashi, will take place. And we don't have too long to wait.
April 10, 2017 These robots can talk to one another to 'see' around factory corners Locus Robotics' autonomous warehouse robots just got a whole lot smarter, thanks to a new software update that allows them to talk to each other on the warehouse floor. Here's how they work.
April 6, 2017 What would happen if Mark Zuckerberg really did 'accidentally create Skynet'? If you look up in the sky at night, you might notice one of over 1,300 active satellites orbiting the Earth. (There’s also another 3,000 up there that don’t work anymore.) If you believe they are all controlled by human operators, think again.
March 30, 2017 This construction robot can lay bricks 6 times faster than you can You can't throw a rock in 2017 without finding some new area where robots are being employed. The latest? A bricklaying robot called SAM100 that is capable of building walls six times faster than a human bricklayer.
March 29, 2017 Here's proof robots are taking jobs and cutting wages It turns out the robot uprising was a whole lot less The Terminator and a whole lot more Roger & Me.
March 23, 2017 Scientists issue dire warning about tomb of Jesus Few places are more holy to Christians than what's thought to be Christ's tomb in Jerusalem, but scientists are now warning that there's a "very real risk" of collapse at the site.
March 23, 2017 NASA's origami-inspired robot can crouch, crawl, and climb serious inclines Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California are developing a small scout robot called the Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER) to accompany the next generation of Martian rovers.
March 20, 2017 This Valkyrie R5 humanoid robot is put to the test with Mars colonization on the horizon Northwestern University has a Valkyrie R5 robot that is now undergoing agility tests in a Massachusetts warehouse to prepare for the NASA's Space Robotics Challenge finalist round this June.
March 17, 2017 Machines have only completely stolen one US occupation since 1950 While there's a lot of worry about robots replacing American workers, a paper by Harvard economist James Bessen found automation has made humans obsolete in just one job over the past 67 years.
March 16, 2017 Ray Kurzweil predicts computers will be as smart as humans in 12 years 12 years. That’s how long Google’s Director of Engineering Ray Kurzweil thinks it will take for computers to reach human levels of intelligence.
