animals Dogs will obey commands from social robots David Pescovitz

robots How to build empathy with robots David Pescovitz

robots Jibo the social robot announces that its VC overlords have remote-killswitched it, makes pathetic farewell address and dances a final step Cory Doctorow

toys The Furby was "coded for cuteness" David Pescovitz

coronavirus Baseball stadium invites dancing robots to mask eerie emptiness during game Carla Sinclair

Japan Look at this complicated robot designed to discourage use of e-signatures John Struan

health Robotic nursing aide wins over both skeptical nurses and their patients Cory Doctorow

makers Thinking back on the special magic of Make: and Maker Faire Gareth Branwyn

Food Diners use chest-mounted robot arms to feed each other in unusual social experiment David Pescovitz

scholarship A once-respected academic games conference has turned into such a dumpster fire that Steve Bannon is keynoting it now Cory Doctorow

Copyfight The Open Revolution: the vital struggle of open vs closed, free vs unfree Rufus Pollock

science fiction Charlie Stross on the "soft genocide" of eugenics-tainted, alt-right climate dystopia Cory Doctorow

flocking behavior Today's "lone wolf" killers are actually a pack Clive Thompson

robots Report: 66 million people will lose their jobs to robots Seamus Bellamy

elections The Rich and the Normal Jasmina Tesanovic

class war Stephen Hawking's final words to the internet: robots aren't the problem, capitalism is Cory Doctorow

health America's private health-care is rationed, but socialized medicine is luxury medicine Cory Doctorow

books Less than Human, More than Human Jasmina Tesanovic

robots Three pro-human laws of robotics Cory Doctorow

Annalee Newitz's Autonomous: a robosexual romp through an unequal future where biotech patent-enforcement is the only law Cory Doctorow