Robotics

The world can be a very scary place. When I wrote Sapiens and Homo Deus I had no idea they would both become worldwide bestsellers. So I was totally…

Each spring, accepted MIT students trek to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Institute’s annual Campus Preview Weekend. They visit labs, explore…

Originally published on September 7, 2018 Thomson Reuters — As Hanson Robotics founder and CEO David Hanson sees it, compatibility and empathy are…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Semi-autonomous and autonomous machines and robots can become moral machines using annotated decision trees containing…

A fully autonomous bat-like terrestrial robot, named Robat, can use echolocation to move through a novel environment while mapping it solely based on…

Credit: Oleg Yarko/Shutterstock A dividing line is emerging in the debate over so-called killer robots. Many countries want to see new…

Getting robots to do things isn’t easy: usually scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them to understand how humans communicate via…

Software applications provide people with many kinds of automated decisions, such as identifying what an individual’s credit risk is, informing a…

Demonstrating a means of applying machine vision and signal processing to a complex mechanical system has won MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics…

A tiny neuro-controller created by researchers at the University of Connecticut could provide more precise control of futuristic biobots, such as…