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Director Tony Kaye's next movie with have a robot star, an AI-powered bot that he claims will be trained in acting techniques.

Artificial Intelligence

A Robot Will Become A Real-Life Movie Star

By Kristin Houser

In a new study, people performed better at a cognitive task when a robot supervisor was in the room — but only if the robot was mean.

A Mean Robot Supervisor Could Make You a Better-Performing Employee

By Kristin Houser

Children are susceptible to robot peer pressure, raising concerns that future bots might be able to influence children in dangerous ways.

Children Get Pretty Easily Peer Pressured By Robots

By Kristin Houser

Human volunteers were less likely to turn off humanoid robot Nao when it protested, particularly when the outburst of emotion was unexpected.

Humanoid Robots Can Manipulate Our Emotions When We Least Expect It

By Kristin Houser

That major pledge against building autonomous killing machines is a great start, but it has some glaring holes in what it covers.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Leaders Who Pledged Not To Build Autonomous Killing Machines Are Ignoring The Real Problem

By Dan Robitzski

Rolls Royce just unveiled the latest iteration of its cockroach-like robots designed to enter airplane engines and help repair them.

Rolls-Royce Is Building Cockroach-Like Robots to Fix Plane Engines

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

Poll Shows Americans Shun Physical Robots But Welcome Smart Home Assistants

Poll Shows Americans Shun Physical Robots But Welcome Smart Home Assistants

By Victor Tangermann

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: Amazon Warehouse Robots Slipped On Popcorn Butter

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: Amazon Warehouse Robots Slipped On Popcorn Butter

By Dan Robitzski

A Virtual Playground Lets AI Practice Complex Tasks And Chores

Artificial Intelligence

A Virtual Playground Lets AI Practice Complex Tasks And Chores

By Dan Robitzski

Las Vegas Food Service Workers Are Going on Strike So They Don’t Lose Their Jobs to Robots

Las Vegas Food Service Workers Are Going on Strike So They Don’t Lose Their Jobs to Robots

Cute, Brainless, Self-Propelled Robots Could Someday Move Around Inside Animals

Cute, Brainless, Self-Propelled Robots Could Someday Move Around Inside Animals

By Dan Robitzski

Watch These Animal-Inspired Robots Find Their Footing

Watch These Animal-Inspired Robots Find Their Footing

By Kristin Houser

New Soft Robotic Skin Automatically Heals Itself, Even If You Shoot It Full Of Holes

New Soft Robotic Skin Automatically Heals Itself, Even If You Shoot It Full Of Holes

By Dan Robitzski

Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than People

Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than People

By Dan Robitzski

Don’t Be Shy. This AI Robot Just Wants to Help You Get Dressed.

Don’t Be Shy. This AI Robot Just Wants to Help You Get Dressed.

By Kristin Houser

NASA Just Unveiled This Awesome, Tiny Helicopter That Will Cruise Over Mars

NASA Just Unveiled This Awesome, Tiny Helicopter That Will Cruise Over Mars

By Dan Robitzski

The White House AI Task Force Wants To Open the AI Floodgates. Here’s How They Should Do It.

Artificial Intelligence

The White House AI Task Force Wants To Open the AI Floodgates. Here’s How They Should Do It.

By Dan Robitzski

Boston Dynamics’ Robot Just Went For A Cool Jog In The Garden, Like It’s No Big Deal

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics’ Robot Just Went For A Cool Jog In The Garden, Like It’s No Big Deal

By Victor Tangermann

Japan Is Replacing Its Aging Construction Workers With Robots

Japan Is Replacing Its Aging Construction Workers With Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Robot Showboat: Now Even Our Celeb Feuds Are Automated

Artificial Intelligence

Robot Showboat: Now Even Our Celeb Feuds Are Automated

By Dan Robitzski

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Facebook Wants a Robot to Be Your Personal Photographer

Your Next Real Estate Agent Might Be a Robot

Artificial Intelligence

Your Next Real Estate Agent Might Be a Robot

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MVPs at the Pyeongchang Games: Robots

What’s It Like Working Alongside Automation? How Walmart’s New Robots “Fit In”

What’s It Like Working Alongside Automation? How Walmart’s New Robots “Fit In”

By Chelsea Gohd

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Artificial Intelligence

Trash Talk From an AI Could Help Humans Cooperate Better

By Chelsea Gohd

What Would it Take for Home Robots to be Good at What They Do?

What Would it Take for Home Robots to be Good at What They Do?

Robots will benefit from this hydrogel.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Manipulated a Material for Robots That Grows Like Human Skin

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Artificial Intelligence

Tax Reform Could Spur U.S. Adoption of Automated Systems

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An Ominous Glimpse of a Sci-Fi Future Where Humans and Cyborgs Coexist

Our Future Pets May be Plastic and Metal Instead of Flesh and Blood

Robots and Machines

Our Future Pets May be Plastic and Metal Instead of Flesh and Blood

By Claudia Geib

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Science & Energy

After Six Years, We Finally Found the Melted Uranium at Fukushima

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Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics CEO Believes Robotics Will Become “Bigger Than the Internet”

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Walmart Is Getting New Employees, and They’re Robots

Artificial Intelligence

The Rights of Synthetic Lifeforms is the Next Great Civil Rights Controversy

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Robots and Humans Need to Learn How To “Talk” to One Another

New FDA Approved Tech Moves Us Closer to a Robotic Future

New FDA Approved Tech Moves Us Closer to a Robotic Future

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Politicians in San Francisco Want to Extend Payroll Taxes to Include Robots

Artificial Intelligence Is Our Future. But Will It Save Or Destroy Humanity?

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Is Our Future. But Will It Save Or Destroy Humanity?

By Patrick Caughill

What Will Life Look Like in 2030 Thanks to Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence

What Will Life Look Like in 2030 Thanks to Artificial Intelligence?

A Robot That Will Replace Your Smartphone is Already in the Works

A Robot That Will Replace Your Smartphone is Already in the Works

By Alexei Oreskovic

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HEXA Is an Agile, Spider-Like Robot That You Can Program Yourself

“Bioinspired” Researchers Look to Nature to Solve Humanity’s Biggest Problems

Science & Energy

“Bioinspired” Researchers Look to Nature to Solve Humanity’s Biggest Problems

By Christianna Reedy

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Five Ways Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface Could Transform the World

If We Don’t Regulate Automation, It Could Decimate the U.S. Economy

Robots and Machines

If We Don’t Regulate Automation, It Could Decimate the U.S. Economy

By Kelsey R. Marquart

An Epic International Duel Between Giant Robots Is Going Down in August

An Epic International Duel Between Giant Robots Is Going Down in August

By Patrick Caughill

Elon Musk Just Launched A Company To Merge Your Brain With A Computer

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Just Launched A Company To Merge Your Brain With A Computer

By Jolene Creighton

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We Could Create Robots That Can Feel, Thanks to New Sensor-Laden “Robotic Skin”

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Artificial Intelligence

What Rights Should We Give to Sentient Robots?

By Neil C. Bhavsar

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The U.S. Secretary of Commerce Doesn’t Think We Should Tax Robots

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The Automation Upheaval Won’t Be Limited to Blue-Collar Jobs

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One Fast Food Chain Is Adding Automated Kiosks to 1,000 of Its Restaurants in 2017

Would You Let a Robot Watch Your Children?

Would You Let a Robot Watch Your Children?

By Chelsea Gohd

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Watch: Harrowing Vision of Our Future Dominated by an AI Military

By Neil C. Bhavsar

The Future of Sex: How Intimacy is Transforming

The Future of Sex: How Intimacy is Transforming

By Jenna Owsianik

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This Robot May Be the Key to Houses Powered by Intelligence

By Robert Sanders

Sorry, This Mech Suit Designed for Humanity Might Just Be A Hoax

Robots and Machines

Sorry, This Mech Suit Designed for Humanity Might Just Be A Hoax

By June Javelosa

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The Newest Anti-Poaching Technology? Robotic Rhinos

By Jelor Gallego

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Robots and Machines

New Artificial Muscles From MIT Bring HBO’s Westworld Closer to Reality

By Jelor Gallego

The Future of Extremism: Artificial Intelligence and Synthetic Biology Will Transform Terrorism

The Future of Extremism: Artificial Intelligence and Synthetic Biology Will Transform Terrorism

By Bertalan Mesko

Banning “Killer Robots” Won’t Stop Robots From Killing

From Quarks to Quasars

Banning “Killer Robots” Won’t Stop Robots From Killing

By Eleazer Corpuz

UN Report: Robots Will Replace Two-Thirds of All Workers in the Developing World

UN Report: Robots Will Replace Two-Thirds of All Workers in the Developing World

By Eleazer Corpuz

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Artificial Intelligence

Not Human: Major News Outlets Are Using AI to Cover the 2016 Elections

By Jelor Gallego

The Iraqi Army Just Deployed Its Cannon-Equipped Robot

Artificial Intelligence

The Iraqi Army Just Deployed Its Cannon-Equipped Robot

By Eleazer Corpuz