robotics

What Trump Didn’t Know About Herat When He Barred Robotics Students From Visiting the U.S.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Jul 2, 2017 The American Embassy in Kabul denied visitor visas to six high school girls who traveled 500 miles from the city of Herat to apply for those visas. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Robots Take Over for 60,000 Fired Foxconn Factory Workers

Staff / Truthdig May 27, 2016 The Apple and Samsung supplier played down the job-loss aspect of the story by making it sound as though employees had been liberated to do less menial work. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stephen Hawking: Artificial Intelligence Could Spell Doom for Humans

Donald Kaufman / Truthdig Dec 3, 2014 Theoretical physicist and all-around genius Stephen Hawking has relied for decades on a kind of artificial intelligence to help him communicate, but that doesn't mean he endorses AI without reservation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Time for a Federal Robotics Agency

Thor Benson / Truthdig Sep 23, 2014 As drones, driverless cars, robotic surgeons and algorithms that can buy and trade in the stock market become part of the daily conversation, there needs to be an understanding of how the law and the public will deal with these imminent realities. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Google Gets Big Into the Robotics Business

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 15, 2013 Google announced Friday that for an undisclosed sum it had acquired Boston Dynamics, a Massachusetts engineering company that designs robots for the Pentagon. It's the eighth robotics company Google has purchased in the last several months. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Tiny ‘Terminator’ Cube Robots Are Here (Video)

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 5, 2013 Scientists at MIT have unveiled cube shaped-robots that can flip, jump and assemble themselves into different shapes, and which they hope will one day be able to "accomplish specific tasks in combat or emergency situations," the BBC reports. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Nerd Alert: IBM Does ‘Jeopardy’; Scientists Invent Ambulatory Goo

Staff / Truthdig Apr 29, 2009 Tired of making machines that beat humans at chess, IBM is prepping a computer competitor for "Jeopardy," which makes sense since Alex Trebek himself is computer-generated. Japanese researchers, meanwhile, have created walking goo. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )