Why shows like Westworld only show dark side of our robot future
10 October 2016
Series like Westworld and Humans show we struggle to embrace a peaceful robot destiny. Why such dystopian angst, asks Kate Devlin, who studies human-robot interaction
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Budgies reveal the rule that means birds never collide in flight
28 September 2016
Birds have a trick for avoiding head-on collisions – now we know what it is, we could teach autonomous drones to do the same
When art and technology pull each other to bits
21 September 2016
The marriage between art and technology came apart at this year's Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria
Drones get first anti-laser lasers to stop being shot down
9 September 2016
With warships equipped with lasers to destroy drones and soldiers using lasers to dazzle the enemy, the first anti-laser defence system is now being tested
Mercedes van will be a mothership for fleets of delivery robots
7 September 2016
Delivery robots can’t get far by themselves – so the German car maker is developing a custom van to drive them to your neighbourhood
Expensive drones take flying lessons from cheaper stunt doubles
12 August 2016
Training an AI to fly a drone by trial and error involves a lot of crashing – best to get cheaper drones to pass on their knowledge to more expensive ones
US Air Force wants to plasma bomb the sky using tiny satellites
9 August 2016
Three teams are competing in a US Air Force project to improve radio communication by directly seeding the ionosphere with plasma
Mall tales: an artist's take on modern retail psychology
5 August 2016
Shopping malls are hot property in the Arab Gulf states, but Sophia Al-Maria doesn't exactly warm to them in her new video installation
How drones are learning to find their own way in the world
27 July 2016
From delivering pizzas to tracking whales, we have high hopes for drones. Here are three advances that will help them live up to the buzz
Feedback: Why the UK will be in a pickle this summer
27 July 2016
Plus karmic justice sought for crystal thief, attack of the mall drones, what tree huggers are up to, the animal that smells of cheap cologne, and more
