Robots & AI

Alphabet-backed Waymo is leading the robotaxi revolution, but Tesla’s new Cybercab could change everything.

AI chatbots may have certain advantages when roleplaying as our friends. They may also come with downsides that make our loneliness worse.

The future of hacking is coming at us fast, and it isn’t clear yet whether AI will help attackers and defenders more.

Who is responsible for copyright violations when they're produced by generative AI? The technology is outpacing the law.

Anjana Susarla

How vulnerable is the electrical grid to a malicious attacker who destroys select substations? Google's Deep Mind can help predict the answer.

John Edward McCarthy

We’re finally starting to see what can happen when we put an advanced AI “brain” in a state-of-the-art robot “body” — and it’s remarkable.

An AI that can predict how to improve the taste of a beer could help brewers develop the next beloved brew.

LimX Dynamics’s bipedal robot, P1, can keep its footing, even when traversing rough terrain unlike any it’s seen before.

The fast-growing coaching industry is being disrupted by generative AI, which excels at “performance coaching.”

Martin SFP Bryant

A new tool for designing antibodies relies on the same kind of tech underpinning DALL-E and other image-generating AIs.

German automaker Mercedes-Benz is deploying Apptronik’s Apollo robots at a manufacturing plant in Hungary.

Autonomous racing is a testbed where competition spurs innovation and AI-controlled cars chart a course toward safer autonomous vehicles.

Madhur Behl

Named Genie, the AI can create a short video games from a single image. It could one day create a wide range of interactive environments.

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