The World as You'll Know It
Robotics / Feature
AI Breakthroughs In Robotics Won’t Change Your Life Any Time Soon
Advances in AI are leading to glimpses of a future in which robots navigate the world the way humans do. As progress inches forward, the question is whether the same techniques that fueled AI’s advances will be enough to get there, or if an entirely new path is required.
By Jamie Condliffe
Newsletter / Issue No. 88
Can Metascience Supercharge Scientific Discovery?
In the name of making the process of scientific discovery more efficient, a handful of governments — including the US — are embracing a potentially effective but untested approach: turning the process of scientific inquiry on the process of science itself
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Startups are converting diesel semitrucks into hybrid EVs. Scientists have created mice with brains made up of half human cells. And, humans have a problem with the World’s Most Reliable AI Detector.
Technology / Feature
A $10-Billion Plan to Sell Africa's Wind and Sun to Countries 7,000 Miles Away
A deep look at how green hydrogen could capitalize on remote areas of renewable resources and redraw the world's energy map.
By Paul Tullis
Podcast / Podcast
A Podcast Series about the Future of Aging
Podcast / Podcast
A Podcast Series about the Future of Aging
Robotics / Feature
Small, Flexible and Sometimes Weird. The Next Generation of Robots is Here.
By Clive Thompson
Robotics / Feature
Small, Flexible and Sometimes Weird. The Next Generation of Robots is Here.
By Clive Thompson
Artificial Intelligence / Feature
One Company's Decision to Put AI Into the Ground
What does it mean to adopt AI? For John Deere it meant hundreds of millions of dollars, a new corporate culture and forever changing the relationship between a farmer and the land.
By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Robotics / Feature
Robots' final frontier? Taking care of us.
To understand how far robots are from replacing humans, just look at the everyday task of using a fork.
By Clive Thompson