Where are the ‘pheriwalas’?
When I think of a market, what flashes into my mind is a myriad of colors, sounds and things. The Indian market could not be put into a box – …
Narrow AI: Automating The Future of Information Retrieval
With industry pundits, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and others, hotly debating the dangers of artificial intelligence and Hollywood priming the public for the release of a slew of new …
When Pixels Collide
For April Fool’s Day, Reddit launched a little experiment. It gave its users, who are all anonymous, a blank canvas called Place. The rules were simple. Each user could choose …
Boston Dynamics Officially Unveils Its Wheel-Leg Robot: “Best of Both Worlds”
When Boston Dynamics introduced its massively upgraded Atlas last year, we said the robot could “do things we’ve never seen other robots doing before, making it one of the most …
Review: A New Exhibition Shows That Humanoid Robots Have Been Around Longer Than You Think
When science fiction critics Eric S. Rabkin and Robert E. Scholes argued in the 1970s that “no one would go through the trouble of building and maintaining a robot to …
How to Survive a Robot Apocalypse: Just Close the Door
The machines stumble over tasks requiring even toddler-level balance, like kicking a ball, getting out of a car or climbing stairs. Grasping objects of varying size and weight is also …