CES is home to some of the coolest, cutting-edge, and most innovative technology around. But within this sea of tech are always some pretty strange gadgets. This year’s conference was no different, packed with a whole bunch of wacky devices, some of which might have a chance of taking off, and others… maybe not so […]
Robots were once consigned mainly to routine tasks in manufacturing and logistics, but now they are slowly spreading their mechanical limbs and stretching into many other areas of life and science. While many of these recent robots are useful, some are just plain weird. Some use advanced algorithms to render them unsettlingly human-like, while others […]
Robots have progressed over the years from clunky hunks of metal to complex, AI-enabled machines capable of running, speaking, and even painting pictures. But even with all those advances humans still can’t help but place robots in bizarre and uncomfortable situations. This year, researchers took advanced robots and had them clean up karate-chopped Coke cans, […]
On hot, cloudy nights, the artist and writer Brent Holmes will sometimes stand in the backyard of his house, near Las Vegas’s Chinatown, and look to the east. Behind a screen of clouds, he’ll see flashes of light and the desert -dweller in him will feel instinctive relief: A thunderstorm is on its way, something […]
