#robots
# tech
Few topics today are as relevant and impactful as automation, changing the fortunes of developing nations and deeply reshaping the economies of politics of wealthy ones.
# tech
Robots are now making their way to one of the oldest and most important human occupations: farming. And further automation of agriculture will have serious consequences.
# sex
Did a real robot brothel quietly open in Barcelona? Well, that depends on your definition of robot...
# tech
Let's not surgarcoat this. We will build autonomous killer robots because we have every incentive to. So let's make sure we get them right.
# tech
Satirical articles about restaurants operated entirely by robots are starting to hit way too close to home...
# space
Robotics researcher Srikanth Saripalli advances a bizarre argument against human spaceflight and in favor of sending a robots we haven't invented yet to distant worlds.
# tech
Tech pundits keep pitching anatomically correct robots built to be interactive sex toys as a solution for many societal woes despite a lot of red flags that it won't work.
# tech
Don't worry about most white collar office jobs being replaced by machines. At least not yet...
# space
We can make our space rovers and probes much smarter than they are today. But we have to get innovative to protect them from alien environments.
# tech
The best way to make robots move may be to just let them figure out how to do it.
# tech
Being replaced by machines at work is no longer a utopian prediction. It's a grim reality for which our leaders haven't even tried to prepare.
# tech
The robots who may assist us and take care of our basic needs in the future don't have to be humanoid to be useful. It may even be better if they're not.
# tech
The Tau Zero Foundation has a radical plan for exploring interstellar space with an extreme spaceship. Problem is, it might not be radical enough.
# tech
Computers and robots are probably not going to be our friends or act like anything other than our helpers and tools in the real world. And that's ok.
# tech
Small, simple robots are making amazing leaps and bounds in evolving behavior similar to that of living things. But why? And how?
