Replace the Nanny with China’s iPal Robot Companion
iPal is more than a robot: it’s an educator, a companion, and a greeter.
Robotics
Everyone Is Flipping Out About Google’s AI Assistant That Just Booked a Haircut
Google’s Assistant AI is getting better every year. It can tell you the weather, or perhaps crack a terrible joke if that’s more your speed. Give it another year or two, and it’ll be able to pre-order your lunch before you even had your morning coffee.
Tiny Robots Will Deliver Your Lunch, Because We Hate Human Interaction
San Francisco-based Starship Technologies wants to remove any human interaction, at least from the process of buying lunch.
Kazuo Ishiguro: Soon, We Will Be Able to Create Humans Who Are Superior to Other Humans
Author Kazuo Ishiguro believes we are unwittingly walking into a dystopian future because the world has yet to give science and technology more than just peripheral interest.
Why the Singularity Is Certain to Happen in My Own Lifetime
The inflection point at which computers, ‘thinking machines’ and AI may become infinitely and recursively powerful is no more than 20–25 years away, at most—and it might be as soon as 12–15 years from today.
Elon Musk Hit Back After a Robot Threw Shade at Him Over AI Warnings
A robot poked fun at Elon Musk but the billionaire didn’t take it lying down.