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Robot Babies Not Effective Birth Control, Australian Study Finds
CANBERRA, Australia—A weekend spent mothering a robot baby to mirror the “real experience” of parenting is meant to discourage teenage girls from getting pregnant. But so-called Baby Think it Over...
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Video Friday: Octopus Robot, Solar Drone, and Humanoid Neck Test
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your thick-necked Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two...
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The Swiss postal service is testing robot mail delivery
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Switzerland has announced that its postal service, Swiss Post, will be testing...
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Pentagon Study Scrutinizes The Future Of Autonomous Robot War
Last summer, the Pentagon's Defense Science Board commissioned a study to examine angles on a particular challenge for DoD, with participants drawn from consulting, defense and technical industries, as...
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Why one neuroscientist started blasting his core
Elite tennis players have an uncanny ability to clear their heads after making errors. They constantly move on and start fresh for the next point. They can’t afford to dwell on mistakes. Peter Strick...
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One Star Over, a Planet That Might Be Another Earth
Although the planet, lost in the glare of the star, cannot be viewed by current telescopes, astronomers hope to see it when the next generation is built a decade from now. And the planet’s proximity to...
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What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower
In the summer of 1980, Donald Trump faced a big problem. For six months, undocumented Polish laborers had been clearing the future site of Trump Tower, his signature real estate project on Manhattan’s...
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'First Apple computer' sells for $815,000
A prototype Apple 1, a holy-grail item in electronics memorabilia, has been sold for $815,000 (£618,000). Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built just 200 of the computers in 1976. The...
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Simone Giertz's New Robot Is Her Shittiest Yet
The queen of shitty robots is back, apparently, with a hankering for a peanut butter sandwich. Her most recent invention is a pair of robotic arms. One holds a plastic knife for peanut butter...
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This robot is a lousy sandwich chef
We've all had fantasies of a future where robot chefs live in our homes and make us any meal we desire at any time of the day. But sadly, robots aren't quite sophisticated enough for home use as of...
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Robots Learn to Learn from Each Other, Not Just a Central Database
We live in a time of information abundance, which far too many of us see as information overload. With the sum total of human knowledge, past and present, at our fingertips, we’re faced with a crisis...
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Robotics Can Get Girls Into STEM, but Some Still Need Convincing
When her high school in Grosse Ile, Michigan, started a co-ed robotics team dubbed The Wired Devils, Maya Pandya thought she’d give it a try. The 17-year-old already excelled in math and science, and...
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Back to School with This Circuit Playground Class Scheduler
Wow, have kids’ class schedules become so complicated that they need a dedicated computer to track what classes are on what days? Probably not. But the complexity of John Park’s son’s schedule at least...
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Robot spending spree: Automation systems are flying off the shelves
The robots indeed are coming -- and in record numbers. As organizations find new ways to adopt greater automation into their processes, the machines that support these efforts are flying off the...
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How To Save Mankind From The New Breed Of Killer Robots
More ▾ Next On News› Next On News› Promoted In The News Today France's highest court has reversed the burkini ban imposed on a town near Nice, a human rights group lawyer said. Hillary Clinton came...
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Michigan legislation would allow cars on roads without drivers
Lots of companies are already testing self-driving cars on the road all over the country, but they have an actual driver at the controls, ready to take over if there is a hazard. Now a bill in Michigan...
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6 Perspectives on How Tech Is Transforming the Economy
0 In early 2015, Singularity Hub ran a series of articles on the Future of Work. Sveta McShane kicked the series off by asking (and answering) the following question: "Have we already entered an era...
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Here's What Parents Of Kids With Life-Threatening Allergies Think Of The...
Jennifer DiMercurio’s 7-year-old son, Liam, relies on the EpiPen, an auto injector used to treat anaphylactic shock, to save his life in the case of a severe allergic reaction. The device delivers a...
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The Secret Justice System That Lets Executives Escape Their Crimes
Chris Hamby is an investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News in Washington, D.C. While working at the Center For Public Integrity, Hamby won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his...
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If This Robot Spinning a Serbian Man Isn't Art, I Don't Know What Is
What is art? According to Plato, art is an imitation of an imitation, a mere illusion twice removed from the reality of the eternal Forms. According to me, art is something I like looking at. One thing...
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