Robot Inspiration
Robot POTUS
Disney Says President Trump Will Speak at the Hall of Presidents, Contradicting Earlier Reports
Driving Robots
Volvo’s driverless cars ‘confused’ by kangaroos
Autonomous Grocery Vans Are Making Deliveries in London
Avis signs on to manage Waymo’s self-driving vehicle fleet in Phoenix
Why Waymo’s Partnership with Avis Makes Sense
Waymo’s self-driving van hits the desert to see if it can stand the heat
Before They Hit the Road, Driverless Vehicles Will Take Over Warehouses
Drive.ai raises $50M for retrofit kits to bring self-driving to existing fleets
Taking a ride in MIT’s self-driving wheelchair
Chess-Playing Robots
A Brutal Intelligence: AI, Chess, and the Human Mind
Robot Homes
Toyota’s Home Helper Is a Glimpse of Our Robot-Assisted Future
Robot Restaurants
Zume Pizza adds extra automation as it rolls out to new cities
Go on a Bender at the New Tipsy Robot
Flying Robots
MIT’s gas-powered drone is able to stay in the air for five days at a time
MIT’s new drones switch between flying and driving for optimal urban transport
Marvel Comics Themed RC Super Drones
Agility Robots
Cassie, An Incredible Two-Legged Agility Robot
This Parkour Robot Easily Bounces Its Way Over Obstacles
Seeing Robots
The engineer behind the Not Hotdog app from ‘Silicon Valley’ put a lot of thought into AI
Bots
Facebook improves its AI Messenger assistant ‘M’ with new wits
Ransomware Is a Real Threat, but Don’t Forget the Botnets
Robot Artists
Machine Creativity Beats Some Modern Art
Robot PR
A Reality Check for IBM’s AI Ambitions
IBM is telling Congress not to fear the rise of an AI ‘overlord’
Fiat “Handbuilt by Robots” Commercial, 1978
Other Robot Fictions
The Balkan blobject robot at the 2073 Venice Biennale
Robot Predictions
An AI That Predicts a Neighborhood’s Wealth From Space
Robot Teachers
With the ‘Coming Battles’ Between People and Machines, Educators Are All the More Vital
Robots Raising Children
Disney experiments look to make kid-robot interactions more natural
Sorting LEGO sucks, so here’s an AI that does it for you pic.twitter.com/xM0hQAt5Cn
— Engadget (@engadget) June 27, 2017
Robots Hiring Humans
Harver raises $8.1M to replace the tedious trawl through résumés with an AI
A Job Plan for Robots and Humans
Other Robot Workers
General Electric Builds an AI Workforce
The Robot Economy
Automation’s Effect on Developing Tech Economies
The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence
Robocalypse Now? Central Bankers Argue Whether Automation Will Kill Jobs
China’s Tech Moguls Warn of AI’s Troubling Trajectory
Robot Research
Teaching robots to learn about the world through touch
MIT CSAIL research offers a fully automated way to peer inside neural nets