The Future of Robots
‘Artificial Intelligence’ Has Become Meaningless
Robots Raising Children
How millions of kids are being shaped by know-it-all voice assistants
Disney Research has robots matching verbal styles with kids
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Robots Driving Cars
Waymo Asks Court to Block Uber’s Self-Driving Car Project
Uber get its self-driving vehicle test permit in California
Robots as Friends
Hugging Face wants to become your artificial BFF
Learning AI
How to solve the artificial intelligence “stop button” problem
Baidu’s Artificial Intelligence Lab Unveils Synthetic Speech System
Facebook’s AI Chief: Machines Could Learn Common Sense from Video
Robots as Chefs
Robotic Chefs Are Getting Better – If You Like Fast Food
Meet Flippy, a burger grilling robot from Miso Robotics and CaliBurger
Robots as Doctors
DeepMind’s New Blockchain-Style System Will Track Health-Care Records
Assisting Pathologists in Detecting Cancer with Deep Learning
Buoy hopes to fight fake online health news with an artificially intelligent app
Robots as Musicians
Arpeggio, A Robotic Player Piano System That Flawlessly Plays the Instrument Like a Human
These magical (robotic) socks teach you to dance (robotically)
Robots at Home (Spying on You)
Kuri the adorable smart home robot can now detect your face
In video, Alexa goes strangely quiet when asked if it’s connected to the CIA
Robots as Judges
How to Upgrade Judges with Machine Learning
Robots Reading Your Mind
MIT programs a robot to self-correct when a human detects a mistake
MIT Engineers Create Robots That Can Correctly Sort Objects by Reading Human Minds
Researchers Show Off ‘Mind-Reading’ Robot
Robot Teachers
So long, banana-condom demos: Sex and drug education could soon come from chatbots
Could AI Replace Student Testing?
Imagining an AI-First Student Experience
Amazon extends AI development race to college classrooms
Nuclear Disaster Robots
Experts baffled as robots sent to clean up Fukushima nuclear site keep dying
Humans as Machines
The Modest Problem of Death: On Mark O’Connell’s “To Be a Machine”