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‘Kawaii!’ Olympic robot mascots thrill Tokyo students
Science

‘Kawaii!’ Olympic robot mascots thrill Tokyo students

Robot versions of Japan’s Olympic and Paralympic mascots thrilled hundreds of school children in Tokyo on Monday, striking sporting poses…
Japan roboticists predict rise of the machines
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Japan roboticists predict rise of the machines

Set in 2019, cult 80s movie “Blade Runner” envisaged a neon-stained landscape of bionic “replicants” genetically engineered to look just…
Egypt to establish Middle East’s first marine research and technology center
Egypt

Egypt to establish Middle East’s first marine research and technology center

Egypt announced the establishment of a marine research and technology center specializing in marine industrial robotics, the first of its…
Robo-journalism gains traction in shifting media landscape
Technology

Robo-journalism gains traction in shifting media landscape

A text-generating “bot” nicknamed Tobi produced nearly 40,000 news stories about the results of the November 2018 elections in Switzerland…
Amazon’s ‘collaborative’ robots offer peek into the future
Technology

Amazon’s ‘collaborative’ robots offer peek into the future

Hundreds of orange robots zoom and whiz back and forth like miniature bumper cars — but instead of colliding, they’re…
German firm’s 7 commandments for ethical AI
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German firm’s 7 commandments for ethical AI

  German business software giant SAP published Tuesday an ethics code to govern its research into artificial intelligence (AI), aiming…
Machines will do more tasks than humans by 2025: WEF
Technology

Machines will do more tasks than humans by 2025: WEF

  Robots will handle 52 percent of current work tasks by 2025, almost twice as many as now, a World…
‘Killer Robots’ film warns of perils of automation
Culture

‘Killer Robots’ film warns of perils of automation

  Automation is killing us, warns filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin in his new documentary “The Truth About Killer Robots,” which premieres…
Robot teachers invade Chinese kindergartens
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Robot teachers invade Chinese kindergartens

  The Chinese kindergarten children giggled as they worked to solve puzzles assigned by their new teaching assistant: a roundish,…
Beijing to build $2 billion AI research park: Xinhua
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Beijing to build $2 billion AI research park: Xinhua

Beijing authorities will build a 13.8 billion yuan ($2.12 billion) artificial intelligence development project in the city’s west, the official…
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