Interrogate the data, consider possible incentives, and look for the dreaded “hype salad”

Lab demoes of an all-optical neural network could lead to more powerful and less power-hungry AI

Robots that can control puppets could one day learn to manipulate complex physical objects like clothing and flexible sheets

Human movements can teach robots the skills they need to dig holes and—maybe someday—build the first colonies on Mars

It'll take more than having its fingers chopped off to stop this robot hand

New drone standard for remote ID submitted for approval

To take off from the water, this drone uses an explosion-powered water jet

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The OpenAI project demonstrated "emergent behavior" by the AI players, including surfing

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Lucas Joppa, founder of Microsoft's AI for Earth program, is taking an engineering approach to environmental issues

Mid-air docking of flying batteries can massively extend the flight time of a drone

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Job postings from a NASA contractor suggest that a new humanoid robot is under development

In their search for killer apps, robotics companies should look at the amazing evolution of computers

For the first time, NASA's Astrobee robot has demonstrated autonomous free flight in space

This cozy little box provides a remote home for Skydio's fully autonomous obstacle-avoiding drone

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The topography and bathymetry payload for UAV

Experts representing a diversity of views on autonomous weapons systems collaborate on a realistic policy roadmap

Self-driving cars and medical robots need an infant’s understanding of physics to succeed

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Long before NLP became a hot field in AI, people devised rules and machines to manipulate language

The machine would use an “alphabet of human thoughts” and rules to combine them

As always, our coverage will feature the coolest, weirdest, and most interesting things that we find at this massive robotics conference

Microsoft's AI could enable its popular chatbot to comment on news, but critics see a tool for spreading disinformation

Michael Kratsios, the fourth U.S. Chief Technology Officer, explains administration policies at the Fall Conference of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Creepy robots and the strange phenomenon of the uncanny valley: definition, history, examples, and how to avoid it

Shannon's said: “OCRO HLI RGWR NMIELWIS”

In 1966, the Eliza program couldn’t say much—but it was enough

Argonne will use the CS-1 to help discover cancer therapies and understand colliding blackholes

The bot learned language from people on Twitter—but it also learned values

OpenAI’s GPT-2 program churns out natural language that’s remarkably coherent—and that’s a problem

She’s also learning to iron.

DJ D-Nice, Miley Cyrus, Ben Gibbard, and a lot of Diplo.

Not every actor is Linney-caliber.

What’s going to get Jen first: the discovery of what’s happening in her garage, or the guilt over what she hasn’t told her BFF?

If Stephen King keeps writing ‘em, we’ll keep seeing ‘em.

“Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend,” Siegfried Fischbacher said in a statement.

His cause of death is unknown.

Former engineering high flyer Ausenco has become the latest mining services company to be swallowed by private equity.

These are the Star Wars hydrating face masks from Japanese beauty product manufacturer Isshin Do. They come in Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, Darth Maul, C-3PO and Chewbacca varieties, and each contains water, glycerin, hyaluronic acid, collagen, and vitamin C to make your face feel softer than a baby Yoda's butt. For those living in Japan, you can pick up the masks for around $4 apiece from a variety of beauty retailers. For those of us not living in Japan, you can buy a 3-pack of any character for $31 from the Japan Trend Shop which, I wouldn't even kid myself, my face is not worth. I don't even buy sunscreen, I just use old spray paint I find in the garage. Also, how long you think it'll take before these are being used by couples for lewd sex acts? "Already happened." FACT. Keep going for a shot of each while I try to pretend I didn't just imagine some Chewbacca on C-3PO bedroom role playing.

This is a video of the result of Youtuber Lil'Alien [Agentalex9 Alt.] feeding Rick Astley's rickrolling classic 'Never Gonna Give You Up' into the Jukebox neural network developed by OpenAI to create more song lyrics for the song. The music video consists of AI upscaled gifs from the original video. If you're really interested in the technology utilized and just what the hell is going on, there are a bunch of links on the video's Youtube page HERE. I just managed to watch the whole video and I can attest that, uh, that was really something. "Something good?" Haha, now let's not get ahead of ourselves. Keep going for whatever this is.

In there's no way Vader signed off on this news, this is the 'Nino Star Products Pool Float Black Outdoor' available from Amazon. It costs around $25, kinda looks like a Darth Vader a kid drew, and I can't imagine Darth doesn't wish they all melted in the destruction of the first Death Star. "What am I, a joke to you?!" I imagine him demanding as he Force-chokes the commander who signed off on using his likeness for a cartoony pool float as the other who signed off on the line of upcoming Vader sex toys casually backs out of the room intending to catch the first dropship to Tatooine. Keep going for one more shot of Vader at his most humiliated.

This is a video from Russia's Zapad-2017 military exercises where a KA-52 Alligator helicopter accidentally fired two missiles towards a group of journalists covering the event (allegedly as a result of a short-circuit in the helicopter's electric system according to the Russian military *eyebarrelroll*). Three of the journalists were injured in the incident (amazingly not critically either), including the one seen strolling along the highway to the danger zone the video. Man, those missiles come QUICK. If you think you're gonna outrun one of those things like a tarantula in Animal Crossing, think again. I mean sure The Flash could do it, but he could also pleasure himself infinitely in the time it took you to read this article. "Huh?" How his penis doesn't catch fire is beyond me, there must be other superpowers at play too. Keep going for a couple versions of the video (the second with slow-mos), as well as a news report which includes the copter's gun view.

Because we don't have enough on our plates as it is, now we've got 'murder hornets' flying around the United States. Murder hornets (actually Asian Giant Hornets, but that name didn't strike enough fear into the masses) have a sting powerful enough that China recommends medical treatment if stunk more than ten times, and emergency treatment if stung more than 30. *pours out a little liquor for Macaulay Culkin in My Girl*. And where is his glasses?! He can't see without his glasses! Put his glasses on! Here's a video of Coyote Peterson getting stung by one (the Japanese Giant Hornet was previously believed to be a subspecies of the Asian Giant Hornet, but has since been recategorized as a color morph). This is a video of a praying mantis eating a Giant Asian hornet until it's just a pile of limbs. So yeah, praying mantises -- start breeding them. And make sure to selectively breed them too so we can produce them bigger and bigger until they're preying on us because the way things are going how is that not how this ends? Keep going for the video while I surround my Animal Crossings town with preying mantises to protect my villagers and keep my five-star rating (okay, three).

This is a video from The Action Lab where they've set up a vacuum chamber with a fan inside along with a number of tiny Styrofoam balls to see if the fan is capable of blowing the balls around after the air is pumped out of the chamber. Well, can it? SPOILER: Only if you turn the fan up past 11 since there's still a tiny amount of air in the chamber on account of it not being a perfect vacuum like my roommate. So yeah, if your spaceship design relies heavily on a fan for propulsion it may be time to head back to the drawing board and hopefully draw something impressive enough for your mom to hang on the fridge because you belong at home. Keep going for the video, but the fun bit starts around 1:50.

This is a terrifying elevator cam gif from Korea of an elevator that begins ascending before a man enters, tripping him and almost creating a classic horror movie death scene in real life. Thankfully he was able to escape. And this is exactly why I don't take elevators -- or escalators. "So you're a stair guy?" Please *jiggling belly* jetpack or grappling gun only. Thanks to PK, who agrees they always say use the stairs in case of emergency, and what's 2020 if not a nonstop emergency? Besides, how do you social distance in an elevator? I mean if somebody farts everyone smells it.

Faked 'entanglement' result challenges cryptographic technique.