Showcases like this event are important because they invite the public to experience robots up close. And exposure matters, as elsewhere, humanoids’ progress has been slow, Take a tour of the robot... Read more »

This busy hub houses more than 100 companies that research, develop, manufacture, and market robotic technologies and equipment. Many build specialized bots of all shapes that can do practical tasks, such as... Read more »

More recently, they’ve uncovered an eDNA gold mine: spiderwebs. The naturally sticky stuff traps material from its arachnid creators, crumbs from their suppers, and, crucially, bio-detritus like saliva and pollen from nearby... Read more »

Nevertheless, the generative AI boom increased the burden on teachers, who were already working long hours to plan lessons, make homework assignments, and grade exams, and now needed to adapt to a... Read more »

These stories are from the next issue of our magazine, which is all about kids. Subscribe now to get your copy as soon as it lands.  The must-reads I’ve combed the internet... Read more »

“It’s just totally miraculous,” says Frank. “If you train GPT-2 on 30 million words, you get a nonsense generator; you don’t get a kid.”  Exactly how babies pull this off is a... Read more »

Later this year, Reflect Orbital plans to launch a test satellite that will extend an 18-by-18-meter mirror in orbit. The goal is to eventually launch up to 50,000 larger satellites that can... Read more »

Reflect Orbital CEO Ben Nowack disagrees with the findings of Kocifaj’s paper. “Some assumptions are simply inaccurate,” he says. “The critical point is that our safeguards, including maintaining exclusion zones, take account... Read more »