In the wake of climate warming that threatens to destroy African farmers’ crops, a team of Penn State scientists on Monday unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool in a cellphone app that can predict crop growth and help protect vital food supplies from intensifying heat.
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It was second time lucky on Tuesday as an unmanned spacecraft carrying Russia’s first humanoid robot into orbit docked at the International Space Station following a failed attempt over the weekend.
Read moreA German data-protection official says Google has given reassurances that it won’t make transcripts of speech data picked up by its artificial-intelligence system in the European Union for at least the next three months.
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Apple has bought a struggling self-driving car startup as the iPhone maker continues to explore the potential market for robotic vehicles, despite recently curtailing its work on the technology.
Read moreRestoring a 2019 Innovation Award for Osé, a women’s sex toy by the Lora DiCarlo company, the Consumer Technology Association apologized Wednesday for initially deeming the robotic massager ineligible.
Read moreA robot walks into a bar. It goes CLANG. Alexa and Siri can tell jokes mined from a humor database, but they don’t get them.
Read moreMarking the birth of composer Johann Sebastian Bach on this day in 1685, Google on Thursday unveiled its first Doodle powered by artificial intelligence.
Read moreGerman carmaker Volkswagen AG says it expects to shed between 5,000 and 7,000 jobs at its core brand by 2023 as a result of increasing automation of “routine tasks.”
Read moreYour friendly neighborhood spider is weaving what may be a viable component for the robotics industry, as a new report released Friday details how a strand of silk has presented researchers with a phenomenal twist on spiders and physics.
Read moreIntensifying the country’s investment in artificial intelligence, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that would open up access to government data and computing resources.
Read moreA gathering of internet pioneers,technology experts and officials from the United Nations gathered in San Joseon Monday to discuss the rise of artificial intelligence and how it can be channeled appropriately to empower humans.
Read moreBorder agents in Greece, Hungary and Latvia are experimenting with a new, and controversial, tool at border crossings into Europe: An artificial intelligence system designed to detect if a person is lying.
Read moreIf you’ve participated in elections in the last two years and stayed engaged politically through social media, you’ve likely come across a pesky automation tool that two-thirds of Americans believe is maliciously used to generate political influence.
Read moreThe Houston City Council on Wednesday revised city law to prevent a Canadian purveyor of sex robots that plans to open its first U.S. shop from offering customers, as one councilman put it, a “try-it-before-you-buy” option.
Read moreHouston, a city known for having more brothels than Starbucks, has been unwittingly pushed to the cutting edge of the sex industry. A robot brothel is set to open soon, which the mayor said is “not the kind of business I would like to see in Houston.”
Read moreItalian researchers on Thursday unveiled a new robotic hand they say allows users to grip objects more naturally and features a design that will lower the price significantly.
Read moreThe European Union’s executive branch wants the bloc’s public and private sectors to invest at least $24 billion in artificial intelligence through 2020 in an attempt to remain globally competitive.
Read moreRobots that can weld, lift and bolt are being developed to help bridge labor shortages at Japanese construction sites, though their use will be limited to night shifts when no human workers will be nearby due to safety and regulatory concerns.
Read moreLaura Tyson, a prominent economist at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, said Friday that the Trump administration’s recent tax overhaul will fuel the loss of jobs to artificial intelligence by increasing the cost of labor.
Read moreAs bots have become inextricably tied to the spread of “fake news,” a new study looking at how automated accounts engage with popular websites finds they are more prolific than humans on Twitter, posting two-thirds of all shared news links.
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