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‘Completely Weird’: How a Mantis Shrimp’s Unique Vision System Is Inspiring Innovation

Mantis shrimp eyes are unlike those observed in any other animal, both mechanically and optically, leading researchers to wonder how they could spur technological advancement.

Paul Tullis

Social Justice

Can Increased Automation Negatively Affect People’s Physical and Mental Health?

Research findings suggest that workers in counties facing higher levels of automation risk reported more frequent levels of physical and mental distress.

Tonya Riley

Robots from the company Kuka serve non-alcoholic beer during the Hannover Fair on April 23rd, 2018, in Hanover, Germany. The Hanover technology fair runs until April 28th, 2018, with Mexico as a partner country.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: A Bartending Robot in Germany

Robots from the company Kuka serve non-alcoholic beer during the Hannover Fair on April 23rd, 2018, in Hanover, Germany.

Pacific Standard Staff

Environment

Listening for Humpback Songs Across the Open Ocean

Researchers are hoping to discover new travel routes of the Pacific humpback by utilizing a robot that monitors their unique means of long-distance communication.

Matthew O. Berger

News in Brief

Could Humanity Actually Create a Self-Aware Machine?

It sounds like the plot of science-fiction movie, but academics have long debated the possibility of conscious artificial intelligence.

Subhash Kak

News in Brief

How Artificial Intelligence Could Benefit Those in Empathy-Centric Professions

If care jobs become the last human jobs, could that encourage employers and policymakers to recognize and value them as the economically critical work that they are?

Elizabeth Weingarten

Environment

Is Walking Overrated?

Does the fawning media coverage of new technological advancements in human exoskeleton design invalidate the lives of millions of wheelchair-dependent people around the world?

Lisa Wade

Environment

What Makes You So Smart, Maja Mataric?

After leaving Serbia for the United States as a teenager, Maja Mataric became one of the world's top robotics experts. She tells Noah Davis how and why it happened.

Noah Davis

Environment

Computers See Human Pain Better Than You

A new study reveals that expression recognition software performs way better than humans at discriminating between real and fake emotion.

Paul Bisceglio