Tag: Robots and Robotics

‘Consciousness’ in Robots Was Once Taboo. Now It’s the Last Word.

The pursuit of artificial awareness may be humankind’s next moonshot. But it comes with a slurry of difficult…

San Francisco Considers Allowing Use of Deadly Robots by Police

Also on the list: 17 robots, five of which are out of commission, according to the Police Department.…

Amazon to Buy Maker of the Roomba for $1.7 Billion

Hey, Alexa, tell Roomba to vacuum the bedroom.Amazon announced on Friday that it had reached an agreement to…

Festival Devotees Migrate East

A young man sporting elf ears and a pink beard danced shirtless to trance music. A crowd of…

Competing for Streets and Sidewalks

Almost as soon as technologists invented robots to haul groceries or burritos to people’s doors, the arguments over…

OMG, You’ll Never Believe What the Laser Vacuum Revealed

After about a week of testing the cleaning tech, I concluded that there are convenient ways to fit…