Few words sound more futuristic than “robot.” It belongs to Mars rovers, factory arms, humanoid machines and today's arguments about artificial intelligence. Yet the word did not originate in an engineering laboratory or a Silicon Valley st...
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Three years after Godzilla Minus One transformed a relatively modest Japanese monster movie into an international phenomenon and an Academy Award winner, Takashi Yamazaki is returning to the...
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Imagine exchanging messages with an unseen stranger. The replies are witty, coherent and sensitive to context. The stranger remembers what you said earlier, catches a joke, explains a diffic...
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Astronomy has a reputation for expensive telescopes, complicated star charts and distant objects visible only through professional instruments. Yet some of the sky's most memorable events re...
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Few subjects can turn an ordinary Italian lunch into a tribunal quite as quickly as a traditional recipe. Put cream in carbonara, use pancetta instead of guanciale, add garlic where somebody...
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When was the first robot created? The first robot was created in 1956 by American electronic engineer George Devol. His creation, called "Unimate", was a programmable mechanical arm that cou...
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