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A quadruped robot dance-off is inevitable. At IROS in Madrid a few weeks ago, Marc Raibert showed a few new videos during his keynote presentation. One was of Atlas doing parkour, which showed up on YouTube last week, and the other was just a brief clip of SpotMini dancing, which Raibert said was a work in progress. Today, Boston Dynamics posted a new video of SpotMini (which they’re increasingly referring to as simply “Spot”) dancing to Uptown Funk, and frankly displaying more talent than the original human performance.

China’s central bank is hiring cryptography experts in the latest efforts to develop its own digital money, even as it bans the trading of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

It’s a funny thing, AI. It can identify objects in a fraction of a second, imitate the human voice and recommend new music, but...

5G will inevitably shake up the media and entertainment landscape. It will be a major competitive asset if companies adapt. If not, they risk failure or even extinction.

In the early days of artificial intelligence (AI), Hans Moravec asserted what became known as Moravec’s paradox: “it is comparatively easy to make computers...

Mochibot is out to prove that there's no such thing as too many legs. “Continuous Shape Changing Locomotion of 32-legged Spherical Robot,” by Hiroki Nozaki, Yusei Kujirai, Ryuma Niiyama, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Takuro Yonezawa, and Jin Nakazawa from Keio University and the University of Tokyo, was presented at IROS 2018 in Madrid, Spain.

The 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act brings a new regime for recreational flyers

Artificial intelligence (AI) means getting a computer to mimic human behaviour in some way...

Researchers from Harvard University’s John A Paulsen School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in Massachusetts, have created an acoustophoretic 3D printing technique which uses sound waves to form drops of a wide range of viscous fluids into additively manufactured structures.