Robots are finally having their moment. And it’s been a long time coming: Inventors have dreamt of automated robots for centuries. Ovid, in his Metamorphosis (8 AD), tells of the inventor Daedalus creating robot-like automata in his workshop. In…
An American company is building war robots, and the justification for pursuing this risky technology is the same one we hear from people who want to drop a data center in every nook and cranny of the American landscape.Foundation’s View“U.S.…
“You’re my first American-made humanoid guest in the White House,” First Lady Melania Trump said to a robot at the White House yesterday.The stunt kicked off the Fostering the Future Together initiative, which gathered 45 first spouses from…
SweetBunFactory/iStock/Getty Images Plus A quarter-century ago, Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy wrote the jarring essay, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” He warned that new technologies threatened to make humans obsolete (if not…
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