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The epic robot fails that say AI will never rule the world

Will the machines rise up and enslave us? The history of incompetent robots, from klutzy cleaners to sense-mangling chatbots, suggests we can sleep easy

Features

Playing Pac-Man

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Robot that's the width of a hair masters Pac-Man and cuts cheese

News

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Uncannily real: volumetric video changes everything

Culture

Food delivery robots are teaching themselves how to cross roads

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Food delivery robots are teaching themselves how to cross roads

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Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

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Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

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robofish

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Robofish floats about tracking antibiotics in the Great Lakes

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man lifting loads of weight

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Feather-light artificial muscles lift 1000 times own weight

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robot doing a back flip

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Watch humanoid Boston Dynamics robot do box jumps and back flips

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Man walks past weapons

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Why we should build AI that sometimes disobeys our commands

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Letting robots kill without human supervision could save lives

Calls to ban killer robots ignore the fact that human soldiers can make lethal mistakes. If driverless cars will save lives, perhaps armed machines can as well

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Robot carers are a reality: I only wish my mum got one

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Technology

Who can you trust? How tech is reshaping what we believe

Features

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Skin-tight exoskeleton is worn like Spanx and lets you turn left

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The stock market is run by wild robots we don't fully control

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