Two acre vertical farm run by AI and robots out-produces 720-acre flat farm ~food Article 613 words, published Dec 23 2020 21 votes
Hyundai Motor acquires Boston Dynamics from SoftBank for approximately $920 million ~tech Article 472 words 4 votes
The dangerous rise of military AI: Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns ~tech Article 3551 words 7 votes
Innovation Lab showcases the construction industry’s tech future. Or to get to the point: A robot dog ~tech Article 1143 words 4 votes
Japanese convenience store chain begins testing remote controlled robot staff in Tokyo ~tech Article 517 words, published Aug 28 2020 6 votes
Hello Robot's Stretch wants to reinvent how mobile manipulators perform tasks in home environments ~tech Link 4 votes
Boston Dynamics will now sell any business its own Spot robot for $74,500 ~tech Article 1177 words 8 votes
'Man becomes the sex organs of the machine world: Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media' (2012) ~humanities philosophy Article 2186 words 14 votes
Danish robot swabs throats for coronavirus – advance could mean healthcare workers are not exposed to risk during the monotonous process of taking samples ~health healthcare Article 375 words 6 votes
How hard will the robots make us work? In warehouses, call centers, and other sectors, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they’re making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous ~tech Article 5902 words 18 votes
Will the 2020s be the decade that the robots finally come for our jobs? ~life work Article 892 words 7 votes
Hugo- and Nebula-winning science fiction author David Gerrold was spot-on in his 1999 predictions about smartphones. Here's his next prediction, from 2018 ~tech Article 1313 words, published Apr 2 2018 6 votes
Helsinki Library has robots to help reshelve books – they get a lot of press attention but they're not the important part of the library ~books libraries Video 4:44, published Oct 14 2019 5 votes
How googly eyes solved one of today’s trickiest UX problems ~tech Article 988 words, published Aug 27 2019 10 votes
Robots that can kill: Tomorrow’s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare ~tech Article 5651 words 6 votes
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords: Tips for working with a co-bot ~tech Article 2735 words 6 votes
The once-hot robotics startup Anki is shutting down after raising more than $200 million ~tech Article 597 words 7 votes
Israeli robotic moon landing fails in final descent ~space rocketry spaceflight Article 308 words 10 votes
Google TossingBot - DeepLearning meets physics to create a robot that can grasp and throw items ~tech google Link 3 votes
Seeing through a robot's eyes helps those with profound motor impairments ~tech Article 1029 words 5 votes
Kyoto temple enlists android Buddhist deity to help people ~humanities religion Article 282 words 7 votes
Learning to Drive Smoothly in Minutes - Reinforcement Learning on a Small Racing Car ~tech Article 1355 words 2 votes
Using insects as templates, researchers are buildings robots that are very small, very mobile—and very useful ~tech Article 1267 words 10 votes