Daron Acemoglu wants to make clear right away that he has nothing against artificial intelligence. He gets the potential. "I'm not an AI pessimist," he declares seconds into an interview. What makes ...

A team of robotics engineers at ETH Zurich, Robotics Systems Lab, has modified an ANYbotics ANYMal quadruped robot to allow it to easily and effectively climb a standard ladder. The group has written ...

As he grew up in Bogotá, Colombia, Mateo Dulce Rubio would hear a familiar news story every few days—someone had stepped on another landmine. The explosion had killed or injured them. Though the ...

A robot pangolin designed to plant trees is the winner of the 2023 Natural Robotics Contest, which rewards robot designs inspired by nature. As the winning entry, the pangolin—dubbed "Plantolin"—has ...

The remnants of Hurricane Helene ripped through the Western North Carolina mountain town of Spruce Pine last week, disrupting a quartz facility integral to the global production of solar panels and ...

Their innovative work meets an urgent need. Much of Canada's vital infrastructure was constructed in the mid-20th century and is now nearing or exceeding its lifespan, a situation that poses serious ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is curating your social media feed and giving you directions to the train station. It's also throwing the fossil fuel industry a lifeline. "At its core, the kind of AI we ...

Government subsidies for business practices and processes should be approached with caution, even when they seem to be environmentally friendly, writes a group of scientists and economists in this ...

Dutch airline KLM on Thursday announced a sweeping package of "firm" cost-cutting measures it hopes will lead to a boost in operating profits of around 450 million euros ($496 million) "in the short ...

In the small fishing village of Beddouza in western Morocco, locals have turned to the Atlantic to quench their thirst, using mobile desalination stations to combat the kingdom's persistent drought.

Google is working on artificial intelligence software that resembles the human ability to reason, similar to OpenAI's o1, marking a new front in the rivalry between the tech giant and the fast-growing ...

The Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon will proceed, though some claims have been dropped, following a ruling from a federal district judge. Judge John Chun, from the U.S.