It was a joke about masking, the effortful performance of neurotypical behavior that many autistic adults describe. Five years on, it reads like a description of a now-familiar fixture in most of our ...

Will Japan lose again? I found myself thinking about that.The trigger was an article analyzing that "Japan might be the most suitable country for the widespread adoption of humanoid robots."The reason ...

Ahead of the opening of the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, Chinese AI start-up Moonshot AI ...

Even if they can run and jump, housework is difficultOn September 18, 2026, Gao Yang, co-founder of Chinese robotics company ...

AI can't end civilization today because it can't touch the physical world — but automated factories, ports and power grids are changing that.

But the speed by which Freddo has been trained to walk, recognise the bottle and grasp it is impressive. It took just a few ...

Figure AI's Helix 2.5 achieved a 56% success rate on household tasks across 30 unfamiliar homes, up from a 9% baseline, using zero-shot ...

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.

AI companies around the world are working tirelessly to sell us on the idea that artificial intelligence is the future, but ...

Nicholas Hatsopoulos: As soon as you now want to interact with the real physical world and grab things and touch things and ...

Leading tech developers have issued dire warnings that humans face an existential threat unless big tech is regulated ...

Robots no longer exist only in popular culture or science fiction. While we might be familiar with the likes of WALL-E, ...