Is it time for us to disregard the Turing Test?
The definitive test for artificial intelligence may be a little too, well, artificial.
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Celebrate Cyber Monday by watching these crappy robots destroy each other
Well this is probably the best thing you’re going to see all day. Remember Battlebots? This is why Battlebots sucked. A group of 31 people got together in Japan recently for Hebocon: The Robot Contest for Dummies. The sumo-like matches pitted one crappy machine against another to see which could sta
Here’s what it’s like to play Steel Battalion in a tricked-out refrigerator box
A notorious game is reawoken.
Scientists are trying to make robots that can feel things
The use of robots is widespread throughout society: in medicine, combat, warehouses and factories. However, one limitation is holding them back from advancing into other industries: a lack of touch. Human touch is complex and highly sensitive, sensitive enough to detect textures on a nanoscale level
A robot as a coworker isn’t actually as terrifying as it may seem
robots are our friends!
The robots know what we’re feeling now
Robots can now read frowny faces.
Viv makes artificial intelligence a little less artificial
Share a deep conversation with a robot.
This live-stream will let you sneak around a famous London art museum after hours
With friggen robots.
When the robots take our jobs, we’ll play games instead
A new survey forecasts a future of less work—and, presumably, a lot more play.
A robot breaks its rules in The Fall
One way to go?
We never thought android selfies could look so human
They just seem so… naked.
Ever go to a rave with a bunch of robots? You can, in Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark
Lights, cameras, transforming robots, lots of action.
Robot holds "instagram interventions" for oversharers, does god’s work in the process
TBT to when I didn’t see pictures of your breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Wolfenstein Can’t Be Killed
“They put a Nazi on the moon? F*ck you, moon.”
Watch a paralyzed teen in a mind-controlled robot suit make the inaugural kick at the World Cup
The World Cup was won on the first kick.
Watch the Usain Bolt of robots outrun a moving car
Why is it that a robot must always look terrifying to perform an impressive feat? Don’t they have any friendly, safe, innocuous looking robots? Maybe it’s just my active imagination envisioning the legs welded with knife blades, but there’s something inherently unsettling about watching the lightnin
UN considers ban on killer robots, puts damper on our dream of owning a T-1000
The topic of banning deadly, autonomous robots is on the table in Geneva, meaning that Kill Screen’s plan for world conquest is temporarily on hold. Foiled again. But seriously, this is important stuff. The UN convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (read: killer robots) is a preliminary step on
One in four people would get it on with a robot, survey finds
One question more than any other will define the course of modern society: Would a sensible human being shag a robot? You know, possibly like this one. Well, 25 percent of people across the pond in the UK would. It turns out that one in four survey-takers wouldn’t mind have sex with a human-like ma
Help these students create a real-life mecha (sort of)
Like any normal person, I think about piloting a giant robot a lot. I’ve seen Pacific Rim… more than a few times. Titanfall helped me to do that too and for the privilege, I am grateful. However, the University of Minnesota’s Video Game Development Club has something a little more ambitious. Their 6
Watch a Japanese robot school Obama at soccer and dance a terrifying victory dance
As part of his visit to Japan, the President recently kicked around the soccer ball with Honda’s Asimo robot at a science museum in Tokyo. Let me tell you, there are few things stranger than seeing a very athletic Commander in Chief being subjected to the superior ball-handling skills of a humanoid
Microsoft’s robot assistants will follow your every move
Yeah, but does it know how I like my coffee?
Americans fear genetic engineering, robots, drones, and Google, in that order
According to a national survey that asked people about near-future technologies, the doomsday scenario is a bunch of genetically superior post-Gen Y’ers who’ll admit them to nursing homes with robot caretakers while they prance around in augmented eyewear, flying drones. That is to say that well ove
Who’s the real automaton in Electric Tortoise?
Running the blade, as it were.
Watch in total revulsion as a female robot grind-dances
Yes, it sounded hypothetically cool when we read about it in cyberpunk pulps, but it turns out that android go-go dancers are terrifying as hell. Take this rump-shaking atrocity, a life-size animatronic woman that is smeared in dirt, wears a thong and a bird mask, and might be modeled after Lady Gag