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More chores for Amazon's Alexa, and a new (celebrity) voice

Sep 25, 2019 (AFP)

Alexa has been tweaked using machine learning to speak more like a person, and will offer celebrity voices -- with the first being star actor Samuel L. Jackson....

When it comes to robots, reliability may matter more than reasoning

Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)

New Army-led research finds that human confidence in robots decreases after the robot makes a mistake, even when it is transparent with its reasoning process. T...

A robot with a firm yet gentle grasp

Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)

One characteristic that allows us to perform a variety of tasks is the ability to alter the firmness of our grip, and University at Buffalo engineers have devel...

Microsoft President calls for urgent action to tackle rise of killer robots

Sep 23, 2019 (Sputnik)

Microsoft President Brad Smith has told The Telegraph that governments urgently need to come up with new rules of the game for using "lethal autonomous weapon s...

Nevada's Team CERBERUS moves ahead at robotic underground terrain competition

Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)

CERBERUS is one of 11 robotics teams from around the world that participated in the first round of the exclusive Subterranean Challenge in August. They brought ...

At NY Fashion Week, robotic dresses take on a life of their own

Sep 11, 2019 (AFP)

The dresses were conceived with the help of a kit designed by Anina Trepte, a former model and founder of the 360Fashion Network, who wants designers to integra...

Russia terminates robot Fedor after space odyssey

Sep 11, 2019 (AFP)

"He won't fly there any more. There's nothing more for him to do there, he's completed his mission," Yevgeny Dudorov, executive director of robot developers And...

Russian Humanoid Robot Fedor Announces Full Implementation of Flight Test Programme

Sep 09, 2019 (Sputnik)

Fedor, which landed in Kazakhstan, 147 km south-east of Zhezkazgan, said that the flight test programme was fully complete. The corresponding entry appeared on ...

Russian robot 'Fedor' leaves ISS

Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)

A live translation from Russian space agency Roscosmos showed a Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft leaving the ISS. Roscosmos said the ship would land in Kazakhstan overnig...

Psychosensory electronic skin technology for future AI and humanoid development

Sep 02, 2019 (SPX)

The attempt to mimic human's five senses led to the development of innovative electronic devices such as camera and TV, which are inventions that dramatically c...

'Sense of urgency', as top tech players seek AI ethical rules

Sep 02, 2019 (AFP)

Some two dozen high-ranking representatives of the global and Swiss economies, as well as scientists and academics, met in Geneva for the first Swiss Global Dig...

CIMON back on Earth after 14 months on the ISS

Aug 28, 2019 (SPX)

"We expect CIMON to return to Germany at the end of October," reports Christian Karrasch, CIMON Project Manager at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentru...

Russian humanoid robot boards space station after delay

Aug 27, 2019 (AFP)

"Sorry for the delay. Got stuck in traffic. Am ready to carry on with work," the robot's Twitter account said in a jokey first tweet from space. Copying human m...

Russia sends 'Fedor' its first humanoid robot into space

Aug 22, 2019 (AFP)

Named Fedor, for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research with identification number Skybot F850, the robot is the first ever sent up by Russia. Fedor b...

Amazon, Microsoft, 'putting world at risk of killer AI': study

Aug 22, 2019 (AFP)

Dutch NGO Pax ranked 50 companies by three criteria: whether they were developing technology that could be relevant to deadly AI, whether they were working on r...

NASA Robots Compete Underground in DARPA Challenge

Aug 15, 2019 (JPL)

Held by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the competition is intended to develop technology for first responders and the military to map, n...

NASA wants your help developing autonomous rovers

Aug 14, 2019 (SPX)

"We believe the public has ideas that can help us advance the state-of-the-art in autonomous robotic operations on planetary surfaces," said Jim Reuter, associa...

Evolving computers from tools to partners in cyber-physical system design

Aug 12, 2019 (SPX)

The process used to design these systems is largely manual, creating long design cycles that often result in costly redesigns after building and testing the sys...

Employees less upset at being replaced by robots than by other people

Aug 12, 2019 (SPX)

Over the coming decades, millions of jobs will be threatened by robotics and artificial intelligence. Despite intensive academic debate on these developments, t...

A computer that understands how you feel

Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)

Could it distinguish, in a few milliseconds, a romantic comedy from a horror film? Yes, and so can your brain, according to research published this week by Univ...