Researchers at Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, alongside collaborators from the University of Michigan, ...

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...

Gadgetry and clever engineering quietly transform how military forces operate. These gadgets deliver subtlety, enable surveillance and control, and give a handful of people an outsized advantage. They ...

Eremenko explains how his startup P-1 AI aims to build AI engineers and reflects on why hydrogen aviation stalled. Few engineers have moved as fluidly between defense research, Silicon Valley ...

Microsoft, like most large software companies, has been pushing its customers to use — and pay for — AI features over the ...

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed numerous artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process human speech in different languages. The extent to which these models replicate ...

Cortical Labs is building two data centres that will house its neuron-filled chips. The technology is still in the very early stages of development ...

As artificial intelligence begins to mimic consciousness with uncanny skill, we need design norms and laws that prevent it from being mistaken for sentient beings.

Scientists have successfully connected living human brain cells to a computer system and taught them to interact with the classic video game DOOM. The strange experiment marks a new step toward ...

Webb has captured the haunting “Exposed Cranium” nebula—an otherworldly cloud shaped by a dying star that looks remarkably like a brain inside a skull.