• Robot Photographer Takes the Perfect Picture

    Robot Photographer Takes the Perfect Picture
    Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell it what you want the photo to look like, and your robot photographer will present you with references to mimic. Pick your favorite, and PhotoBot—a robot arm with a camera—will adjust its position to match the reference and your picture. Chances are, you’ll like it better than your own photography.“It was a really fun project,” says Oliver Limoyo, one of the creators o
  • Kim Kardashian cozying up to a robot is another example of AI entering our lives | Arwa Mahdawi

    Kim Kardashian cozying up to a robot is another example of AI entering our lives | Arwa Mahdawi
    The next time you see dystopian thirst traps, we should be thinking about how these robots are going to be used by the self-proclaimed ‘warrior class’On a scale of one to 10, just how desperate do you think Kim Kardashian is for attention? Judging by the billionaire’s weirdly sexual photoshoot with a robot, the answer may be an 11. The entrepreneur and influencer, who is a big Tesla fan, recently posed with the company’s Optimus bot in a Tesla Cybercab (a self-driving tax
  • Jeff Jarvis: ‘Elon Musk’s investment in Twitter seemed insane, but it gave him this power’

    Jeff Jarvis: ‘Elon Musk’s investment in Twitter seemed insane, but it gave him this power’
    The US media pundit on the dangers of overregulation online, why he’s more frightened of the tech bros than AI itself, and how to reclaim the web by getting rid of the geeksJeff Jarvis was born in 1954 and studied journalism at Illinois’s Northwestern University. He worked as a TV critic and created the magazine Entertainment Weekly, later leading the online arm of US media company Advance Publications. Since 2001, he has been blogging at Buzzmachine.com and in 2005 he became an asso