The Fermi Explorer is not the first mission to Alpha Centauri ever proposed. The star, at 4.37 light-years (or 25 trillion ...

With reports of AI friends and lovers inducing psychosis, suicide, and murder in teenagers and adults, a number of social ...

Advances in multimodal AI and robotics are making companion robots more personal and emotionally aware ...

Construction underway on a remote island nearly 400 kilometers west of India’s mainland could demonstrate, for the first time, the commercial viability of a vast, untapped renew ...

This article is brought to you by Ollobot. From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and ...

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Machine learning helps orbital sensors catch blazes earlier ...

AI-written code is shifting the bottleneck from generating software to reviewing it. According to the Sonar study, 38 percent of developers said “more effort” is required to review AI-generated code ...

On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark that identifies ...

Plenty of people remain spooked by autonomous vehicles, or AVs. Some experts and policymakers have cautioned that AVs won’t necessarily make roads safer. When it comes to partial or full autonomy, the ...

Australian giant burrowing cockroaches are transformed into cybernetic “Paraborgs,” which can be remote controlled while ...

Autonomous blood-drawing devices could help address phlebotomist shortages ...