I want a companion ship
It’s time: We need a drone with automated follow features that not only includes a camera for cataloging your many feats, but also has an on-board voice assistant to and a cellular connection to get stuff […]
Artificial Intelligence
Having conquered Chess and Go, the robots move to master Foosball
We’ve come a long way since the days of selecting a CPU player for the other Pong paddle, tank, or hand-to-hand combatant. Now the computers are taking it to us, in meatspace, and seemingly nothing no
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Carnegie Mellon’s Mayhem AI takes home $2 million from DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge
The 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge has concluded, and the winning team — Carnegie Mellon University’s ForAllSecure — is taking home the $2 million grand prize. What’s that you say — what’s the Cyber Grand Challenge?
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The White House requested input on artificial intelligence, and IBM’s response is a great AI 101
The field of artificial intelligence is so huge, and the potential applications so numerous, that it would be folly to try to explain it all in one — no, wait, IBM just did. Read More
Watch wall-walking spiderbots weave ‘impossible’ structures with carbon fiber
Normally, the notion of setting a pair of spiderbots free in your house would seem alarming. But if you knew that they were weaving you a strange and mathematical hammock while you were gone? Suddenly that
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NASA’s Curiosity rover can now pick which bits of Mars to scan on its own
Curiosity may be an older dog (the rover landed on Mars in 2012), but it’s still picking up new tricks. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently revealed (via Verge) that the robot can now pick its own
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DIY Co. launches JAM to help kids learn what they don’t in school, with a little help from Cartoon Network
DIY Co., the education tech startup led by Vimeo designer and co-founder Zach Klein, has launched a new online learning platform for kids called JAM.com. The company also quietly closed a $4 million round of venture
Self-driving delivery robots could soon be common sights in European cities
Airborne drone delivery is still more PR than public reality, but wheeled, self-driving delivery bots could be trundling down a sidewalk near you sooner than you think. London-based Starship Technologies, which counts Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla
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