For the vision impaired, this AI robot aims to replace canes and guide dogsThis unassuming mobility aid - the Glide resembles a mini vacuum cleaner - has a lofty goal: Transform lives of the visually impaired by providing smart assistance for navigating the world.March 6, 2024 by Rajiv Rao in Robotics
Instant evolution: If AI can design a robot in 26 seconds, what else can it do?Despite its unassuming appearance, this gelatinous little 'insta-robot' heralds AI's ability to compress eons of evolutionary learning into mere seconds.February 23, 2024 by Rajiv Rao in Robotics
How horses can inform the future of robot-human interactionHorses are supremely intelligent, employ largely non-verbal communication, and have served humans for close to 10,000 years -- all highly attractive traits that we seek in robot behavior.September 6, 2023 by Rajiv Rao in Robotics
Stephen Hawking issues familiar warning to China against AIBoth Stephen Hawking and Tesla's Elon Musk feel that the capacity of artificial intelligence (AI) to surpass human intelligence necessitates watching its development closely -- but not everyone thinks that machines are so smart.April 28, 2017 by Rajiv Rao in AI & Robotics
How an Indian firm predicted a Trump victory when every American pollster got it wrongUsing an artificial intelligence algorithm that mined social media, MogIA predicted Trump would win when almost no one else did.November 11, 2016 by Rajiv Rao in AI & Robotics
Army vet takes us closer to Blade Runner era by building cyborg stingrayThis medical researcher was inspired by his daughter's attempts to pet a stingray at an aquarium, leading to an inter-disciplinary research study costing $1 million that eventually gave birth to the rat-cell infused, metallic-spined stingray.August 15, 2016 by Rajiv Rao in Robotics
Embattled Wipro hopes for Holmes to imitate Watson to solve its current problemsWipro is betting that its machine learning and AI-fuelled platform can make it a contender in the IT Services sweepstakes.June 23, 2016 by Rajiv Rao in AI & Robotics
How to raise a robotThe secret to making robots act as flexible as humans may lie in programming them to act and think like babies.December 22, 2015 by Rajiv Rao in Robotics