Driving Robots
Real people are now hailing Waymo’s robotic taxis, without a driver in sight
What’s Driving Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous Cars Are Coming, and Bringing Change Along for the Ride
Waymo Takes the Final Step Before Launching Its Self-Driving Car Service
Waymo shows off what it’s like to ride in a truly driverless self-driving car
GM will build its production autonomous Cruise cars at Michigan assembly plant
Lyft will build self-driving cars with top auto parts supplier Magna
How Will Pop Music Adapt to Autonomous Cars?
Military Robots
Washington waking up to threats of AI with new task force
Pentagon Wants Silicon Valley’s Help on A.I.
Robot Killers
When an AI finally kills someone, who will be responsible? (How quaint for MIT Technology Review to suggest that robots have never killed anyone.)
Security Robots
Artificial Intelligence and the Attack/Defense Balance
Sports Robots
One Shining AI Moment: when machine learning meets your bracket
Don’t foul this free-throwing Toyota basketball robot
Shopping Robots
Walmart’s bot brigade is about to hit the 2,000-mile mark
Automated Bookstore Opens in Beijing International Book Mall
A chatbot can now offer you protection against volatile airline prices
Telepresence Robots
iRobot spinoff Ava Robotics launches autonomous telepresence bot
Flying Robots
Larry Page’s air taxis are already flying above New Zealand
Google co-founder’s Kitty Hawk unveils its electric autonomous flying taxi
Delivery option: drone. Arrival estimate: sooner than you might think.
Switzerland Is Developing a System to Track Drones All Over the Country
Airspace Systems raises $20 million Series A to take down dangerous drones with other drones
This drone has an origami arm that unfolds to pick up objects
Holy mountains haloed by drone light
Fortem gets a $15 million Series A for its drone-hunting tech
AI and drones are being used to control construction projects
Robot Bakers
BreadBot is an insanely over-engineered gadget just for baking loaves of bread
Dancing Robots
Bring This Robot to a Disco, and It’ll Dance With You
Underwater Robots
A Fleet of Underwater Robots Will Create Detailed Map of Marine Microbes
Robot Avatars
XPRIZE announces a $10M contest for remotely-controlled robotic avatars
X Prize announces $10 million competition to spur development of robot avatars
Trash Robots
Someone is making a multiplayer trash robot you steer through an actual river
Yeast-Modeling Robots
AI that describes how yeast works will help scientists model biology better
Robot Doctors
Med Students Are Getting Terrible Training in Robotic Surgery
Robot Assistants
AI assistants say dumb things, and we’re about to find out why
Robot Ethics
A Hippocratic Oath for artificial intelligence practitioners
Grieving Robots
Can Bots Help Us Deal with Grief?
Robot Musicians
Google’s NSynth Super is an AI-backed touchscreen synth
The next frontier for robotics? Jazz marimba
Robot Entertainment
What an ‘infinite’ AI-generated podcast can tell us about the future of entertainment
Robot Notifications
AI can make your smartphone notifications less annoying
Robot Predictions
We need to improve the accuracy of AI accuracy discussions
“Common Sense” Robots
It’s Really Hard to Give AI “Common Sense”
Robot Translators
AI Translates News Just as Well as a Human Would
Robot Hearts
A simple artificial heart could permanently replace a failing human one
Robot Bees
Autonomous Robot Bees Are Being Patented by… Walmart?
Robot Communications
Bridging the communications gap between human and machine
Robot Authoritarianism
Artificial Intelligence and the Infrastructure of Surveillance Authoritarianism
Robot Catholics
AI tackles the Vatican’s secrets
Chinese Robots
China wants to shape the global future of artificial intelligence
Social Media Robots
Twitter bots are now trying to tip the scales in local elections
Uncovering Instagram Bots With a New Kind of Detective Work
Amazon’s Robots
Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Advocates
Amazon wants to put Alexa in the workplace
This new Alexa skill will play music generated by artificial intelligence
Silicon Valley’s Robots
Silicon Valley companies are undermining the impact of artificial intelligence
“Safe” Robots
OpenAI Wants to Make Safe AI, but That May Be an Impossible Task
Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs
Tech Companies Try to Retrain the Workers They’re Displacing
Robots Are Coming For Your Brains
A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
Here are some real things people said about brain preservation startup Nectome