1363 Results From "automation"

A new medical robot built by Korean engineers automates the process of jabbing patients' noses with a swab to test for COVID-19.
Medical

Bizarre Medical Robot Grabs Your Face, Jabs You With a Nose Swab

By Dan Robitzski

To Our Readers: On the Future of Futurism
Future Society

To Our Readers: On the Future of Futurism

By Foster Kamer

A seed company uploaded a picture of onions to market its seeds on Facebook. The algorithm flagged it for being "overtly sexualized."
Meta

Facebook Algorithm Flags Onions as “Overtly Sexualized”

By Dan Robitzski

It may be many years away — but the Space Force is already considering the possibility of putting the first troops into space and establish a base there.
Moon

US General: Space Force May Build a Moon Base

By Victor Tangermann

The in-development science-fiction movie "b" will be the first feature-length ilm to feature a robot as the lead performer.
Robotics

Hollywood Just Cast a Robot Actress in a $70 Million Movie

By Dan Robitzski

Over the weekend, Microsoft laid off some 77 journalists and editors who helped curate the news and replaced them with an AI algorithm.
Artificial Intelligence

MSN Fires Journalists, Replaces Them With AI

By Dan Robitzski

WRAL reports that a Raleigh driver was watching a movie on his phone while his Tesla was on Autopilot slammed into two police cars.
Tesla

Tesla Driver, Watching Movie on Autopilot, Slams Into Police Cars

By Jon Christian

Thanks to San Francisco-based startup Formant, you can remotely a control a Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog to go for a stroll.
Boston Dynamics

This Site Lets You Control an Actual Boston Dynamics Robodog With a PlayStation Controller

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have developed a new deep learning algorithm that can detect heart disease just by analyzing four photographs of a person's face.
Studies

Algorithm Detects Heart Disease by Analyzing Selfies

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has built a system that could make landing on the Moon or Mars a whole lot less risky — and it already has plans to test it out on an upcoming mission.
Moon

NASA Has Figured Out a New Way to Safely Land on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

An army of 100,000 volunteers have identifed almost 100 of a new class of frigid brown dwarf floating near our solar system.
Science & Energy

An Army of Citizen Scientists Found Nearly 100 Nearby Brown Dwarfs

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists refuse to stop using indecipherable, vague acronyms that could have multiple meanings, and it's a serious problem for accessibility.
Science & Energy

Scientists Furious That Scientists Keep Using Indecipherable Acronyms

By Dan Robitzski

A new op-ed in the New York Times says that everyone can embrace a life of high-tech luxury, as long as the world embraces communism.
Future Society

NYT Calls For “Fully Automated Luxury Communism”

By Dan Robitzski

Pelaton's Automated Following system lets a human-driven "lead" truck serves as the guide for an autonomous "follow" truck.
Advanced Transport

New “Automated Following” Tech Lets One Driver Control Two Trucks

By Kristin Houser

Ad studios are relying on deepfake tech rather than live actors for corporate videos due to coronavirus lockdown measures and health risks.
Artificial Intelligence

This Company Is Making Corporate Training Videos Using Deepfakes

By Dan Robitzski

The first documented case of police facial recognition AI making its first wrongful arrest happened when a man was wrongfully identified as a shoplifter.
Facial recognition

Cops Arrested an Innocent Man Because Facial Recognition Told Them To

By Dan Robitzski

If bee populations continue to drop, a team of scientists says they can pollinate plants with soap bubble-launching drones.
Agriculture

New Trick Could Save Agriculture Even If All the Bees Keep Dying

By Dan Robitzski

Dario Gil, the director of IBM Research, predicts that quantum computing app stores and code repositories will begin to emerge this decade.
Quantum Physics

IBM Director: Get Ready For Quantum Computing App Stores

By Dan Robitzski

Restaurants Are in Need of a Helping Hand. Miso Robotics Is Offering Them One. Literally.
Future Society

Restaurants Are in Need of a Helping Hand. Miso Robotics Is Offering Them One. Literally.

By Rachelle Dragani

New Zealand-based robotics company Rocos just shared a video of how Boston Dynamics' dog-like robot Spot could give agriculture workers a hand.
Robot Dogs

Watch a Robot Dog Herd Sheep on a New Zealand Farm

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

By Victor Tangermann

Despite broadcasting a barrage of lies with its faulty AI summaries feature, Apple has yet to meaningfully address the problem.

Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

By Victor Tangermann

Tech startup Channel 1 released a 20 minute demo of its news channel presented by uncanny AI news anchors.

Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-Generated News Anchors

By Frank Landymore

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

By Sharon Adarlo