The robot being trained to feed humans
"Great, here we go". With these words a robot lets a researcher at the University of Washington know that he is about to be fed.
AI predicts who survives ‘Game of Thrones’
Students at the Technical University of Munich have developed an application to predict which character has the best chance to survive ‘Game of Thrones’.
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches first paid mission
Elon Musk scores another victory with the successful launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy - the world's most powerful rocket. This is the rocket's first commercial mission following a successful test fligh ...
Virgin Galactic space travel nears lift-off
James Clash can hardly wait. He's a member of an exclusive group signed up for space tourist flights with Virgin Galactic, some of whom paid up to $250,000 and have waited more than a decade to be one ...
Self-driving cars will ‘be in our lives’ but it’s a ways off
During a Reuters Newsmaker event, Chief scientist at Uber Advanced Technologies Group, Rachel Urtasun, says she believes it will "take a long time" for self-driving cars to be used at scale but the te ...
Analysis shows Leonardo was ambidextrous
An in-depth study of Leonardo da Vinci's earliest-known drawing has proved definitively that the great Renaissance artist was in fact comfortable working with either hand. Dan Fastenberg reports.