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A New Line of Robots Can Assist Doctors in Overwhelmed Hospitals

Healthcare systems around the globe are embracing what seemingly feels like something out of sci-fi film, humanoid robots in the hospital. 
By Andy Hirschfeld

How Dead Rockets Could Save An Aging International Space Station

It's amazing how little we know about working in space beyond a space station—building things, manufacturing, living and working. It's still all very new.
By Sissi Cao

Groundbreaking A.I. Robots Will Hold Conversations and Learn Users’ Personalities

Early next year, a robot running Alana will be installed in a Paris hospital, primed to support patients—and, happily, offer a bit of social companionship into the bargain.
By Alasdair Lane
Even the most innovative companies on the planet haven’t figured out how to integrate new technology well.

Innovation Has a Managerial Problem

By Ryan Khurana

Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

By Gabriela Barkho

Koch Family’s Quiet Foray Into Tech: 4 Cutting-Edge Sectors They’ve Bet On

By Sissi Cao
NAO, the first built humanoid robot, entertains visitors at the SoftBank Robotics stand at the 2018 CeBIT technology trade fair on June 12, 2018.

Why Are So Many Robots White? Study Shows There’s a Racial Bias

By Harmon Leon
This photo taken on February 1, 2018 shows an engineer holding a silicon face against the head of a robot at a lab of a doll factory of EXDOLL, a firm based in the northeastern Chinese port city of Dalian. With China facing a massive gender gap and a greying population, a company wants to hook up lonely men and retirees with a new kind of companion: "Smart" sex dolls that can talk, play music and turn on dishwashers.

Big Tech Is the Next Space Race, and the US Is Already Losing

By Jack Crosbie
Future robots will work side by side with humans, just as they do today.

Robots Won’t Steal Our Jobs if We Put Workers at Center of AI Revolution

By Thomas Kochan and Lee Dyer
NASA astronaut Mike Fossum at the International Space Station

NASA Needs Your Help Solving Radiation and Branding Problems

By Alec M. Beresin
Comedian Judah Friedlander.

Watch Judah Friedlander Destroy This Derivative Art Robot in the Name of Humanity

By Alanna Martinez
HOLLYWOOD, CA - DECEMBER 14: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been shot in black and white. Color version not available.) Sphero BB8 attends the World Premiere of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” at the Dolby, El Capitan, and TCL Theatres on December 14, 2015 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Disney)

Toy Robots With Cloud Brain Could Turn Real Life Into a Video Game

By Brady Dale
University students experiment with human-robot interaction and autonomous manipulation, two elements of manufacturing’s future.

To Really Help US Workers, We Should Invest in Robots

By Nikolaus Correll
Bill Gates in an interview with Quartz.

Bill Gates Wants to Tax Robots Just Like Humans

By Sage Lazzaro
President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence meet with technology executives at Trump Tower.

Companies Lacking Diversity Fail Their Shareholders—and Employees

By Shon Burton
As humans, it is in our nature to look for external references to identify ourselves.

The Future of Self

By Mark Manson
BINA48 (YouTube screenshot)

Is Martine Rothblatt the Next Marshall McLuhan or L. Ron Hubbard?

By Hal Niedzviecki
Robin Murphy at TEDWomen 2015. (Screengrab: Ted.com)

These Robots That Swim, Fly and Crawl Come to the Rescue After Disasters

By Sage Lazzaro
PR2 at the griddle. (Screengrab: YouTube)

A German Robot Learned to Cook Pizza by Watching YouTube and Reading WikiHow

By Sage Lazzaro
(Photo: Kickstarter)

The Future of Toys? Ones Kids Program Themselves

By Sage Lazzaro
The FeMaidens compete at the 2013 competition. (Photo: Norm Sutaria)

This Bronx High Schooler Is Captain of an All-Girls Robotics Team

By Jordyn Taylor
Elon Musk in SpaceX Mission Control

Robot Commands Elon Musk, Bill Gates to Accept Artificial Intelligence

By Jordyn Taylor

Researchers Create Self-Organizing Insectoid Robot Swarm, God Help Us

By Jack Smith IV

Google Swears It’s Not Going to Use A.I. Firm DeepMinds for Evil

By Jordyn Taylor
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