Tag: Robots

Hospitals Are Starting to Make Their Own Drugs to Beat Big Pharma

Fed up with surprises from the pharmaceutical industry, major hospitals in the US are now teaming up to form their own nonprofit drug company. It’s an ambitious plan, but hospitals are determined to combat price hikes and chronic shortages in generic drugs. The most notorious of late includes the case of Turing Pharmaceuticals; after having bought rights to the AIDs drug Daraprim, Turning increased prices...

The Netherlands Are Turning Empty Prisons Into Homes for Refugees

A cement cell might seem like the last place a Syrian refugee would want to sleep, but that's exactly what hundreds of refugees are doing in the Netherlands right now. The incarcerated population in the country has seen a dramatic decline in the past decade, dropping from 20,463 prisoners in 2006 to 10,102 in 2016. The smaller number of inmates means a lot of prisons...
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Study Warns: Half of Our Jobs Will Disappear in the Next 25 Years

Although unemployment sounds like an inherently negative concept, an ideal, functioning government has to maintain a small percentage of unemployed workers at all times....

This Creepy Robot Said it Straight: She Wants to Destroy Humans

There is no getting around it. Humanoid robots are going to be our servers, coworkers and well, possibly our killers. Okay, maybe we are...

Inside OpenAI: Elon Musk’s Billion Dollar Project to Build AI for Everyone

In the race to develop artificial intelligence, one player is fielding an uncommon strategy. OpenAI, an initiative launched last December, sets itself apart from...

This Uncrushable Cockroach Robot Wants to Rescue You

It’s been said that if there was ever a nuclear apocalypse, the only living creature likely to remain will be a cockroach. Why? Because...

This Robot Might Be the Future of DIY Surgery

In the 2013 Matt Damon sci-fi movie Elysium, the rich live on a space station where every home is equipped with a medical device...

Robot Journalists Are Taking Over the Associated Press Newsroom

Those news articles that pop up in your Facebook feed about Coca-Cola's new business venture or the latest development in Middle East oil politics,...

A Robot Is About To Hitchhike Across Canada

There was a time in America's past where hitchhiking was a common thing. People in need of a ride and short on cash thought...

Engineers In Florida Have Just Created A Working RoboCop

Crime in the future is going to be a lot more difficult. Between flying police drones and a new RoboCop prototype created at Florida...

AI Tried to Create Inspirational Quotes, and it Went Hilariously Wrong

AI is a concept that both excites and terrifies us. Machine learning systems are set to revolutionize and streamline the way we live, work,...

Inside the Life of People Married to Robots

Zheng Jiajia is an engineer and a graduate of Zhejiang University. He is 31 years old and married to a beautiful young woman named...