Robots
Science fiction promised us humanoids. Do we even want them?
What’s standing in the way of our robot overlords.
Fears about our ability to control powerful AI are growing.
A new Amazon robot handles 1,000 items an hour.
AI is slowly getting better at household chores.
The robot apocalypse is already here, it just looks different than you thought.
As many seniors face down the winter holidays alone, it may be tempting to give them a companion robot as a gift.
AI religion is upon us. Welcome to the future.
Demographics will determine who gets hit worst by automation. Policy will help curb the damage.
Amazon is leading a robotics race that will have a seismic impact on the warehouse industry, which employs more than 1.1 million Americans today.
On the latest Recode Decode, de Blasio called for antitrust investigations into Facebook and Google and dismissed universal basic income as a cure-all in the face of job automation.
We abuse our robots. That’s a problem.
It’s a hard, hard fall.
On this episode of Recode Decode, Tynan talks about overcoming investors’ skepticism in order to start her online framing company.
Maria Ressa, the journalist who co-founded Rappler in the Philippines, warns that her country is a “cautionary tale” for the United States.
Or is it just an expensive office toy?
Josh Ginsberg, the CEO of media intelligence company Zignal Labs, says his company has been seeing “massive amounts of bot activity” lately.
But they probably will someday.
Founder and CEO Rosanna Myers sees a future for industrial automation and it looks a lot like 19th century farming.
A new pain for cities.
Carman and Lauren Goode report from CES 2018.
Look out, Forrest Gump, here comes Forpheus.
Giles Walker made dancing robots as art. Now he’s been roped into the sex industry.
Modern robotics haven’t caught up with science fiction robots ... yet.
Possibly both, says Seismic CEO Rich Mahoney.
Sharma is No. 44 on the Recode 100
Son pulls back the curtain a tiny bit on how the controversial Vision Fund is doing.
The iconic Silicon Valley R&D firm, formerly known as Xerox PARC, is actively working on “trustable” artificial intelligence.
Journalists, beware!
Starship Technologies helped to pass the Ohio law.
The robot was able to fetch water and open doors for a quadriplegic.
The robot delivery company Starship Technologies is helping to pass state laws across the country.
Robots, robots, self-driving cars and robots.
Collaborative robots are expected to account for a third of that market.
Similar laws were passed in Virginia and Idaho earlier this year.
In less than 10 years, the market for domestic robots is expected to grow to $4.4 billion.
The companies are not disclosing a price.
Construction is one of the least-digitized industries in the world, and its productivity is suffering.
This wasn’t the first year that bots created more traffic than humans online.
Anki CEO Boris Sofman talks about making a robot that can compete with pets on the latest Recode Decode.