Gender stereotyping or normalising verbal abuse or harassment falls short of the current standards for prohibited AI under the European Union's AI Act. Extreme cases, such as voice assistant ...

Members of the New Scientist Book Club give their take on Sierra Greer's award-winning science-fiction novel Annie Bot, our read for February – and the needle swings wildly from positive to negative ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An international research team led by biologists from Heidelberg University as ...

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

A new taste is coming to Super Bowl viewers who have long been accustomed to watching ads for soda, candy, pizza, chips and beer. Svedka vodka will run a 30-second ad just after halftime during NBC’s ...

US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela in Trump administration operation After winning his first Oscar, Tom Cruise kept repeating the same 2-word phrase. It’s a lesson in emotional intelligence Divided US ...

Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson tells CNBC’s Squawk Box Asia how AI is accelerating the development of humanoid robots and talks about the company’s key competitive edge. Got a confidential news ...

Chinese EV company XPENG unveiled its next-gen humanoid robot IRON during its AI Day event in Guangzhou, having it walk onto the stage in a stilted yet strangely lifelike saunter. The reveal swiftly ...

Sonair's ADAR tech on an AMR to prevent collisions. Sonair introduces ADAR (acoustic detection and ranging), a 3D ultrasonic sensing technology designed to enhance safety and perception in autonomous ...

TAIPEI, Sept. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- When Nvidia framed the next wave of AI as "physical AI," it helped ignite a surge of interest in humanoid robots, accelerating development efforts worldwide. Yet, ...