1363 Results From "automation"

Cornell University's AutoPhoto robot uses machine learning to take images of rooms like a robo realtor. It could also have uses in war and conflict zones.
Future Society

New Photographer Robot Has One Job: Make Your Place Look Awesome

A car enthusiast tested the Tesla Model 3 auto-braking safety system by driving at a taxidermy cat and a cardboard cutout of CEO Elon Musk.
Tesla

Grim Experiment Tests Whether a Tesla Will Run Over a Defenseless Kitty

Leaked messages from CNET's parent company, Red Ventures, show deep concern about a potential consequence of AI-generated content.
Artificial Intelligence

Leaked Messages Show How CNET’s Parent Company Really Sees AI-Generated Content

Avatars of sex workers inside the game are giving other users lap dances in bondage outfits, the BBC reports. One avatar was even spotted wearing a Nazi uniform.
Future Society

Experts Alarmed by Sex, Nazism in Children’s Game Roblox

It looks like China's "doomsday" AI weapons may be more American than critics care to admit.
Artificial Intelligence

US Military Horrified by Chinese Military Spending Money on Exact Same Crap They Do

One Florida teen is converting Elon Musk's anger at him into his very own 15 minutes of fame. 
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Teen Stalker Yeets Himself Into 15 Minutes of Fame

Prosecutors have charged a Tesla driver with vehicular manslaughter after his Autopilot-enabled car crashed into another vehicle killing two people in 2019
Tesla

Tesla Driver Charged With Manslaughter for Killing Two People on Autopilot

The Chinese tech and e-commerce giant Alibaba is rolling out delivery robots to replace error-prone, smoke-break-taking human couriers.
Robotics

Alibaba Says Delivery Robots Are Great Because They Don’t Smoke on the Job

We now have yet another reason to despise Amazon after the company's Tuesday outage left tons of people with "smart homes" in the lurch.
Internet Of Things

Amazon Outage Shuts Down IoT Vacuums, Doorbells, Fridges, Even Home Locks

McDonald's has been experimenting with using voice recognition instead of human employees to take orders at some of its drive-thrus.
Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Replaces Drive-Thru Human Workers With Siri-Like AI

Artificial intelligence isn't yet, and likely won't ever be, conscious. We just want it to be. And such a phenomenon can be explained by the Eliza effect.
Artificial Intelligence

Analysis: No, AI Isn’t Sentient, You Absolute Morons

In response to the so-called "labor shortage," companies are looking to finally replace replace workers with machines.
Robotics

Robotics CEO Says Goal Is to “Remove” Human Labor From Economy

The AI bot that CNET is using to churn out personal finance articles has a relatable problem: it keeps making dumb mistakes.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been named Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2021 for his "dreams of Mars as he brestrides Earth."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2021

A team of researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have created a jetpack-wearing humanoid robot — that also has a creepy, doll face.
Robotics

Scientists Built a Robot With Jetpacks and a Creepy, Doll-Like Face

Warehouse robots in London started a fire and disrupted thousands of grocery orders when they crashed into each other on the job.
Robotics

Worker Robots Start Fire in Warehouse

Lockheed Martin delivered a laser weapon called the Airborne High Energy Laser (AHEL) to the Air Force, meant to be mounted to a gunship.
Military

Lockheed Delivers Laser Weapon for Mounting to Military Gunship

CNET's AI-generated articles appear to show deep structural similarities, amounting to plagiarism, with previously published work elsewhere.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism

Tesla's original factory in Fremont, California has been able to push the envelope so much, it has become the most productive auto plant on the continent.
Tesla

Tesla Is Absolutely Spraying Out Cars

Sergio’s Restaurant, a restaurant chain in Florida, began using a Servi robot that uses cameras and laser sensors to bring food to the customers’ tables.
Robotics

A Florida Restaurant Got a Robot Waiter and Tips Spiked