Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the ...

Robotics will continue to dominate in "dull, dangerous, or dirty" tasks—e.g., polishing a painted surface, or conducting inspections, repairs, and maintenance in high-risk environments—reducing the ...

In December 2024, Geoff Hinton, who is often called the “godfather of AI” and who had just won the Nobel Prize in Physics, ...

Before you watch up a wind-up monkey toy terrorize a bunch of adults, refresh yourself with other childhood toy agents of chaos ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman uses AI for common, menial tasks, but predicts the technology could take on more complicated projects sometime this year.