There has long been public anxiety about robots rendering certain jobs obsolete, but it turns out women might have more to worry...
Artificial Intelligence
If we create robots that look like children, the uncanny valley may be the least of our problems. At a robot ethics panel at Berkeley...
The European Union just gave the Human Brain Project 1.2 billion euros to build an artificial human brain using a network of...
"We don’t yet understand how brains work, so we can’t build one." Jaron Lanier, computer scientist and author of "Who Owns...
David Willetts, British Minister of University and Science, claims that "robots will take over middle-class professions" before manual...
A recent study from UC Davis that found a kind of "neural noise" in the human brain may aid researchers in creating a more "human"...
Meet Bob, Birmingham University's new security guard robot who has been working alongside security guards at a firm in Twekesbury for...
Law enforcement has enlisted the help of computers to ensure that they respect suspects' privacy, under the theory that computers are...
Meet Eugene Goostman - a seemingly normal 13 year old boy. He's from Odessa, Ukraine, and doesn't speak English very well. He likes...
Japanese company Softbank has unveiled Pepper, a robot that can purportedly read human emotions. The robot has an "emotional...
Science found new ways to make us feel like we're living in a real-life sci-fi movie last week, but not all of the stories were...