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The Future of Robots


The Future of…Automation

How to Beat the 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

Alexa: Don’t Screw Up My Kid

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”

Audrey Watters


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The History of the Future of Intelligent Machines

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