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07/13/2016 / By Greg White

Can these two rules being tested on a knife-wielding robot stop A.I. androids from harming humans?

A roboticist from California has created a contraption that intentionally stabs people with a needle. Contrary to its mechanical brethren, this is the first robot purposefully designed to inflict pain on humans. In order to ignite an ethical controversy, the robot goes against the author and professor of biochemisty Isaac Asimov’s first and second law […]

06/14/2016 / By Greg White

Autonomous robot sews pig intestine better than human surgeons

Would you trust a surgeon or a robot with your life? Recent events suggest you should prefer the latter. A piece of technology known as the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) did a better job at stitching a pig’s small intestines than human surgeons who performed the same task. The creators of STAR do not […]

05/10/2016 / By Greg White

Elon Musk just spent $1 Billion launching the world’s first ‘artificial intelligence gym’

Elon Musk wants to make robots sweat. The CEO of SpaceX has created a $1 billion state of the art “Robot Gym” to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The intent of the gym, according to Musk, is to make robots as versatile as humans with respect to thinking. Musk joined forces with Sam Altman to […]

02/10/2016 / By Greg White

AI robots can now read human emotions

Pepper is one of the most human-like robots in the world, not so much for its hominid appearance, but for its ability to mirror primal emotions. The machine is revered as the first “robot with a heart.” Pepper was a hit in Japan. The country’s SoftBank Robotics Corporation reports that 1,000 units of the humanoid […]

09/24/2015 / By Chris Draper

How to kill a Google robot

Horror movie enthusiasts delight in the idea of a zombie apocalypse. So much so that some people have promulgated “how to kill a zombie” guides on the internet. Although there is plenty of information on the web about how to kill zombies, there is little information about how to a kill a more imminent threat: […]

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