Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# 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...
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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.
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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.
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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.