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The man behind a startup called DoNotPay planned to use AI to help fight a traffic ticket. But professional lawyers shut it down.
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Nearly three years into the pandemic, travel has returned but hotel staff have not. Unable to find workers, hotel owners and managers are having to adapt to what they believe is the new normal.
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The companies warned that "untrustworthy people" could use their robots to harm others or infringe on civil liberties, and they pledged to make sure their customers didn't weaponize the products.
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NASA should send probes to the ice giant planet of Uranus and to a moon of Saturn where conditions could be right for life. Those are some of the recommendations in a new report to the space agency.
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Pepper isn’t your normal bank concierge. She wears an all white suit made of plastic and has big glowing eyes. She’s four feet tall and has an iPad in her…
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As more culinary robots find their way into commercial food prep, one restaurant in San Francisco called Creator is hoping to strike a balance between high tech and the human touch.
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Sony stopped making Aibo robotic dogs in 2006. Since then, an electronics repair company has been keeping them "alive" through organ donations from "dead" Aibos. But never before a proper funeral.
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The NSU University School’s Robotics team is headed to the Vex World Championship this week, where they will face robots from 35 countries. During one of…
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MIT researchers unveiled a Soft Robotic Fish prototype in hopes of boosting aquatic observation. It can wiggle like a fish, dive to 18 meters, work autonomously — and hopefully avoid getting eaten.
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A new NPR/Marist poll found that 94 percent of American workers think it's unlikely they would lose jobs to automation. At a New Jersey warehouse, many workers say they're confident in their future.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer is urging retailers to stop "Grinch bots" that use sophisticated software to buy out the most popular toys of the season and sell them for a hefty markup on third-party sites.
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Once a technology that treats emotions as data becomes pervasive, we may soon find that data is the only aspect of emotion we come to recognize or value, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.