AI & Robotics

It was a Times Union series on children and poverty in the Capital Region in 2007 — and discovering while reporting that series that there was a need for programs...

Understaffed restaurants are increasingly turning to technology and automation, including robot servers. American Robotech sells four models priced at up to $17,800. Videos show how its robots deliver food, clear...

Kissinger, Schmidt and Huttenlocher are not afraid to explore the darkest side of AI, either. They are clear-eyed about the ways that AI could enable dictators to monitor their citizens...

FlowIO Platform, a modular pneumatics controller for soft robotics and smart material projects, took home Grand Prize honors at the 2021 Hackaday Prize. Aside from the prestige of coming out...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — A local high school held a challenge that put students’ brains to the test. Students used their stem skills to create a robot. “It has been...

A team of researchers at Northwestern University has invented a new high-resolution camera that can see around corners and through scattering media, which can be anything from skin to fog.The...

The trailer for Mother/Android, the new film from The Batman screenwriter Mattson Tomlin set to debut on Hulu on Friday, December 17th, has arrived and it's giving us our first...

Scientists have been looking for new ways to treat cancer for years now. Newly developed shape-shifting robots could provide a new avenue for treatment. The new robots are shaped like...

During the EnRicH 2021 European Robotics Hackathon, Southwest Research Institute’s unmanned aircraft system (UAS) explored and mapped the interior of a nuclear power plant, detecting radiation sources, autonomously without the...

There are no questions possible of the robot, such as “where is the rest of my food?” Table 16 has this exact issue, with one person’s dish missing and the...