Every moment is a crossroads. Every day we make countless seemingly unimportant decisions, which linked together over weeks, months and years make up the...
ROBOTICS: Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution
Evan Ackerman | IEEE Spectrum
"Overall, 'a fitness increase of more than 40 percent over 10...
Have a big idea about how to use technology to tackle California’s drought? Applications are now open for the 2015 Singularity University Impact Challenge....
Ready or not, another episode Ask an Expert is already here...about as fast as robots are showing up in the workplace.
This episode, in fact, is all about robots and...
Join Singularity University August 20 at San Jose’s California Theatre for the 2015 Graduate Studies Program Closing Ceremony—a night of inspiration, impact, and exciting pitches...
How do you raise kids today during these exponential times?
Should they learn a second language… in a world of instant translation?
Should they ever memorize...
Do we have an adequate system for sorting through the ten thousand plus different educational technology materials and programs available for integration into our...
ROBOTICS: Forces of nature: Biomimicry in robotics
Stuart Nathan | The Engineer
"For example, the processes – the combination of systems of sensors, muscles and brain –...
Imagine a future where computers no longer run on silicon chips. The replacement?
Brains.
Thanks to two separate studies recently published in Scientific Reports, we may...
It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.
After all, "the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea"…...
“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world…”
– Marshall McLuhan
A standard assumption of technological progress is that new innovations are...
ROBOTICS: Robots Can’t Kill You—and Claiming They Can is Dangerous
Ron Chrisley | Gizmodo
"Since robots don’t have responsibility, humans are the ones responsible for what robots do. However,...
With immense respect to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, I'd like to suggest an alternative to the giving pledge…an "impact pledge."
Specifically, a pledge where...
ROBOTICS: Our Robot Overlords Aren’t Quite Ready For Us — Yet
Caroline O'Donovan | BuzzFeed
"The issue is that robots are really good at doing the same...
Do you have a burning question about emerging technologies and how they're shaping the world? Maybe you're curious about when bitcoin will be accepted everywhere or...
Two proud countries, two extraordinary warriors…one title. Just like Rocky IV. Only instead of Sly and Dolph, substitute a 15-foot, 6-ton American robot going...
