The History of the Future of Intelligent Machines

Humans versus Machines Humans Will Bully Mild-Mannered Autonomous Cars A New AI Ethics Center Shows Growing Angst About Machine Smarts Can an MIT Computer Learn to Scare You? ISIS has come up with a new diabolical way to use drones Virtual assistants spend much of their time fending off sexual...

AI Solving “Problems” Stopping Breast Cancer with Help from AI How artificial intelligence could shape higher education AI Body Scanners Could Solve the Worst Thing About Airports Self-Driving Vehicles The Creator of Google’s Self-Driving Car Now Competes with It Uber Freight Will Bring Surge Pricing to the Trucking Business Uber’s...

All the promises of a future of drone delivery. Having actually seen drones fly, I just don’t see how this would ever work. “A Google drone brought me a Chipotle burrito – after a four mile bus ride.” Hangar raises $6.5 million to give companies all the drone data they...

Each week when I gather all these stories of robots, I find there are a fair number that seek to reassure us that the “coming robot revolution” will be joyful and jolly: Disney builds a jolly, one-legged hopping robot Watch A Plucky Little Robot That Wants to Play Watch spiderbots...

Autonomous Vehicles Delivery Option: Drone. Arrival Estimate: 2020 Udacity open sources an additional 183GB of driving data Why Are We Building A Self-Driving Car? The entrepreneurs behind the new drone economy Coming Soon To AT&T’s LTE Network: Drones Robots and Labor Robots and Humans Work Together to Make and Deliver...

Next Target for IBM’s Watson? Third-Grade Math Passengers in Uber’s self-driving cars waived right to sue for injury or death Protecting Humans and Jobs From Robots Is 5 Tech Giants’ Goal Tech Titans Join Forces to Stop AI from Behaving Badly DJI’s folding drone is smaller and better at tracking...

Victor Scheinman, Assembly Line Robot Inventor, Dies at 73 Can You Arrest a Robot? Robots pave the way for our sci-fi future now AI Is Taking Control of Project Loon Bazillion Beings are AI-driven bots that have to earn their keep… or die Hard questions about bot ethics Here’s the...

I've just created a Robots subdomain for Hack Education, where I will chronicle "The Week in Robots." More soon...

Self-Driving Cars Can Learn a Lot by Playing Grand Theft Auto Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence is hard to see MVP, A Mobile Robot Tackling Dummy Designed to Take a Beating During Football Drills Uber’s Pittsburgh Project Is a Crucial Test for Self-Driving Cars It’s...

North Dakota becomes first US state to legalise use of armed drones by police The Head of CMU’s Robotics Lab Says Self-Driving Cars Are “Not Even Close” No Sailors Needed: Robot Sailboats Scour the Oceans for Data Stephen Colbert Hilariously Tests Out Some of Inventor Simone Giertz’s Most Spectacular Robots...