This robot maintains tender, unnerving eye contact

This robot maintains tender, unnerving eye contact

Humans already find it unnerving enough when extremely alien-looking robots are kicked and interfered with, so one can only imagine how much worse it will be when they make unbroken eye contact and mirror your expressions while you heap abuse on them. This is the...

This happy robot helps kids with autism

A little bot named QTrobot from LuxAI could be the link between therapists, parents, and autistic children. The robot, which features an LCD face and robotic arms, allows kids who are overwhelmed by human contact to become more comfortable in a therapeutic setting....
The greedy ways Apple got to $1 trillion

The greedy ways Apple got to $1 trillion

For being the richest company ever with $ 243 billion in cash, Apple sure cuts corners in the stingiest ways. The hardware giant became the first trillion-dollar company this week. Yet it’s tough to reconcile Apple earning $ 11 billion in profit per quarter with...
Apple is worth over $1,000,000,000,000

Apple is worth over $1,000,000,000,000

Apple won the race to $ 1 trillion in market capitalization. Following this week’s earnings release, Apple shares (NASDAQ:AAPL) are now trading at $ 203.57, which values the company sightly over $ 1 trillion by $ 576 million. While the smartphone market is more...

I, for one, welcome our robotic ukulele overlords

It is unclear where the UkuRobot came from and where it will go once it is done with humanity but I fear that it is up to no good. Look at this robot: small, compact, infinitely complex. Its fretting system stares at us, gimlet-eyed, while the plucking system...