Robots and Robotics – Page 10

What May Have Been Lost If the Hakuto-R Moon Lander Crashed

The Ispace mission had planned to carry a number of customer payloads to the moon’s surface.

By Daniel Victor

Books and Literature Boylan, Jennifer Finney Butler, Octavia E Choi, Susan Dratch, Rachel Everett, Percival Michaels, Lorne PEN American Center Penn, Kal Poetry and Poets Ringwald, Molly Robots and Robotics Sedaris, David Town Hall (Manhattan, NY) Writing and Writers

Could the Next Great Author Be a Robot? We Asked (Human) Writers.

At the PEN America Literary Awards, David Sedaris, Judith Thurman and others discussed the role A.I. could play in literature.

By Anna Grace Lee

Computers and the Internet Her (Movie) Johansson, Scarlett Kubrick, Stanley Microsoft Corp Movies Osment, Haley Joel Robots and Robotics

Why A.I. Movies Couldn’t Prepare Us for Bing’s Chatbot

Instead of the chilling rationality of HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” we get the messy awfulness of Microsoft’s Sydney. Call it the banality of sentience.

By A.O. Scott

Innovation Labor and Jobs Naver.com Robots and Robotics Seoul (South Korea) South Korea

Meet Your New Corporate Office Mate: A ‘Brainless’ Robot

Naver, a South Korean internet firm, is trying to introduce robots into the world of cubicles and conference rooms without making employees uncomfortable.

By John Yoon and Daisuke Wakabayashi