1363 Results From "automation"

According to a Reuters exclusive, Amazon is rolling out specially-made machines that are capable of boxing up orders — a job "held by thousands."
Future Society

Amazon Now Has Machines to Automatically Box Up Orders

By Victor Tangermann

A haptic feedback vest could help working dogs perform their jobs better than before by issuing specific commands through controlled vibrations.
Robot Dogs

A Vibrating Haptic Feedback Vest Could “Steer” Rescue Dogs

By Dan Robitzski

A new report by Spain's IE University found that a quarter of Europeans would rather be governed by artificial intelligence than a human politician.
Artificial Intelligence

A Quarter of Europeans Trust AI More Than Politicians

By Dan Robitzski

Watch as a glider-style drone composed of five mini-drones inspired by tiny seed pods bursts apart in mid-air to deliver its payloads.
Drones

This Bizarre Drone Splits Into Five Mini-Drones Mid-Air

By Kristin Houser

Engineer and author Kevin Morris argues that an "economic singularity" may be coming, where robots and AI can automate all the jobs there are.
Future Society

New Futurist Fear: “Economic Singularity” Could Kill Jobs Forever

By Dan Robitzski

The number of robot workers to join the North American workforce increased by 7 percent in 2018, according to the Association for Advancing Automation.
Robotics

North America Put More Robots to Work in 2018 Than Ever Before

By Kristin Houser

Austin-based startup Briggo has built a fully automated robot barista capable of filling 100 gourmet coffee orders in one hour.
Robotics

This Robot Can Make as Much Gourmet Coffee as Four Baristas

By Kristin Houser

Twitch is suing the trolls that hijacked its platform to share extreme, sometimes illegal videos — even though it doesn't actually know who they are.
Future Society

Twitch Sues Anonymous Users for Streaming Porn, Murderous Rampage

By Kristin Houser

An Austrian team of scientists are proposing to build an airship, otherwise known as a zeppelin, that's ten times as big as the Hindenburg.
Advanced Transport

These Scientists Want to Bring Back Zeppelins in a Big Way

By Victor Tangermann

Walmart executives have great things to say about their new robot workers, but human employees are less than thrilled about them.
Robotics

Walmart Employees Hate Their New Robot Coworkers

By Dan Robitzski

2020 Presidential candidate Andrew Yang supports universal basic income
Universal Basic Income

How Universal Basic Income Could Be Affordable, Andrew Yang Explains

By Jacob Banas

Boston Dynamics is back in the news promising that it will start mass-producing and selling its SpotMini robot soon, but the details keep shifting.
Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Says It’ll Sell Robots, But Won’t Give Any Details

By Dan Robitzski

The ACLU published a new report warning about the rise of AI-driven surveillance systems, which could strip away our privacy and cause overpolicing.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Aided Video Surveillance Will Watch and Silently Judge Us

By Dan Robitzski

Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert told the audience at re:MARS he thinks the company's SpotMini robodogs could one day battle for our entertainment.
Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics CEO Wants Its Robodogs to Fight Each Other

By Kristin Houser

The next movie you watch could have been performed, edited, and recommended by artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Is Automating Hollywood. Now, Art Can Thrive.

By Dan Robitzski

A new type of AI built by Amazon's Alexa team is better at picking up on emotions when people are talking. It could help Alexa better understand people.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Teaching Alexa to Analyze Your Emotions

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook's plan to block revenge porn by storing digital fingerprints of lewd photos to cross-reference new uploads doesn't involve informing victims.
Future Society

Facebook Knows When Someone Posts Your Nudes — but Won’t Tell You

By Dan Robitzski

The New York Times reports that some 25 percent of Google's controversial AI-powered Duplex robo-callers actually turn out to be humans.
Google

Many of Google Duplex’s “AI” Phone Calls Are Made By Humans

By Victor Tangermann

A survey asking U.S. citizens to predict America's future reveals a great deal of pessimism, but not everyone thinks the nation is in a decline.
Future Society

Poll Reveals Americans’ Grim Predictions for the US in 2050

By Kristin Houser

In a year filled with technological breakthroughs of all stripes, military technology really pushed the limits of what we thought was possible this year.
Military

The Coolest (and Scariest) Military Tech of 2019

By Kristin Houser

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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