Massachusetts Wants to Ban Gun-Wielding Robots
Bad news for fans of gun-toting killer robot. Massachusetts wants to make your Black Mirror fantasy illegal. This week, two state senators proposed a first-of-its-kind bill that, if passed, would…
A Robotaxi Was Blamed for a San Francisco Man’s Death But He Was Actually Hit By a City Bus
A couple of weeks ago, as San Francisco emergency responders attempted to pull away from a scene where a man had been seriously injured, a pair of Cruise robotaxis allegedly…
Telepresence classroom robots trialed for absent students
A school in Japan is turning to robots in a bid to tackle rising truancy rates. The school in Kumamoto, southwest Japan, will allow absent students to control telepresence robots…
This team of legged robots could be the future of Mars exploration
ETH Zurich If you’d been a fly on the wall at the Rockhal concert hall in Luxembourg in September 2022, you’d have been greeted by a strange sight: no bands…
AI This Week: Elon Musk’s AI-Dominated Future
Headlines This Week The Pentagon wants to beef up its automated drone hordes with some AI. File that under Things That Will Keep You Up At Night. OpenAI has admitted…
‘Go Catch That Squirrel:’ Google AI Teaches a Robo-Dog Conversational Commands
Google researchers may have finally found a tech solution for the laborious task of training stubborn dogs to listen to commands. That is, of course, if you’re willing to opt…
AI This Week: Cruise Veers Off Course
Headlines This Week In a big win for human artists, a Washington D.C. judge has ruled that AI-generated art lacks copyright protections. Meta has released SeamlessM4T, an automated speech and…
Driverless Cars Are Worse at Spotting Kids and Dark-Skinned People, Study Says
Driverless car systems have a bias problem, according to a new study from Kings College London. The study examined eight AI-powered pedestrian detection systems used for autonomous driving research. Researchers…
Apptronik’s new humanoid robot is a rival to the Tesla Bot
Apptronik Another humanoid robot has come sniffing for your job. Created by Texas-based Apptronik, the new robot worker, called Apollo, certainly looks like the real deal and is far from…
How Drones Are Helping Demine Ukraine
When Draganfly launched as a small drone company in 1998, its co-founders did not predict hobbyist products like theirs would one day become, in the words of CEO Cameron Chell,…