Top 175 Home Robot / AI News, Reviews / Resources
Home Robot & Artifical Intelligence (AI) News, Reviews & Resources
- 3 Laws of Robotics - "The First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. The Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. The Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law."
- 5 Biggest Smart Home Trends In 2020 - "Smart homes are the domestic face of the Internet of Things (IoT). In recent years we’ve become increasingly used to connecting everyday devices in our homes to the internet and to each other to make the places we live more comfortable, economical, entertaining, and safe."
- 5 robots helping to tackle coronavirus - "Automatons have been chipping in with the effort to beat Covid, from disinfecting hospitals to delivering groceries."
- 10 Best Educational Robot Kits - Robotic Trends.
- 10 Movies to Help You Envision Artificial Intelligence - "A.I. may feel like a relatively recent phenomenon, but filmmakers have been thinking about it for nearly a century."
- 11 Police Robots Patrolling Around the World - Wired.
- 13 GIFTS FOR THE SMART-HOME OWNER - Wired.
- 2017 WAS THE YEAR THE ROBOTS REALLY, TRULY ARRIVED - Wired.
- A BLUEPRINT FOR COEXISTENCE WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Wired.
- A brain-like supercomputer could help Siri understand your accent - "Hey Siri, listen up. A multitasking supercomputer that attempts to mimic the human brain was switched on Friday - and it could be used to help virtual assistants like Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa understand your accent."
- A Robot May Be Training to Do Your Job. Don’t Panic - The New York Times.
- Actors, teachers, therapists – think your job is safe from artificial intelligence? Think again - The Guardian.
- A.I. Is Not Sentient. Why Do People Say It Is? - "Robots can’t think or feel, despite what the researchers who build them want to believe."
- Airport robot carries your bag, finds your gate & waves goodbye - CNN travel.
- Alexa & Cortana will soon work with each other - engadget.
- Alexa finally gets a sound boost, thanks to Sonos one - Wired.
- Alexa vs. Siri vs. Google: Which Can Carry on a Conversation Best? - The New York Times.
- Alexa, We’re Still Trying to Figure Out What to Do With you - The New York Times.
- Alexa will soon have a memory - engadget.
- Amazon Astro is an Alexa robot that roams your home - "Amazon plans to sell Astro in limited quantities later this year. While it will eventually cost $1,449.99, as part of its Day 1 Editions program, the company will sell the robot at an introductory price of $999.99. Each Astro will come with six months of complimentary access to Ring Protect Pro."
- AMAZON ASTRO REVIEW: TOO MUCH ALEXA, NOT ENOUGH ARMS - "While it’s not the robot we were looking for, Astro is rolling in the right direction."
- Amazon bought iRobot to see inside your home - "With Roomba’s maps, Amazon’s vision of ambient intelligence in the smart home is suddenly attainable."
- Amazon Echo Dot (3rd gen) review: better looks, better sound, same price - The Verge.
- Amazon Echo Dot (4th gen) review: Alexa’s new small budget ball - "Smart speaker ditches puck shape but keeps solid sound and function with or without LED clock display."
- Amazon Echo expands to 28 more countries - The Verge.
- Amazon Echo Is Winning the Race to a Screenless Future - Wired.
- Amazon Echo review: most exciting new gadget in years - The Telegraph.
- Amazon is hijacking our emotions to put robots in our homes - "Amazon is betting Astro will steal your heart."
- Amazon owns my Echo, I’m just feeding it - The Verge.
- Amazon wants to build a home robot - engadget.
- Amazon’s $999 dog-like robot is getting smarter - "The company is doubling down on new features for Astro, its dog-like robot, to help it better patrol the household when the owners are away."
- Amazon’s Astro robot has been spotted in the wild ... bringing people beer - "Users are showing off what the $1,450 Amazon smart home robot can really do."
- Amazon's Echo Dot is a great way to bring Alexa to more rooms - engadget.
- An emotional robot just met Neil deGrasse Tyson and the results were adorably strange - Tech Insider.
- Anki's adorable Cozmo robot is hard not to love - engadget.
- Anki’s Cozmo robot is the real-life WALL-E we've been waiting for - The Verge.
- Apple HomePod review - "Great sound, but it's trapped in Apple's world."
- ARE HOLOGRAMS THE FUTURE OF HOW WE CAPTURE MEMORIES? - The Verge.
- Are Robots Coming for Your Job? Eventually, Yes - The New York Times.
- Artificial Intelligence - Just a fancy name for a computer program.
- Artificial intelligence - New Scientist.
- Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia.
- Artificial Intelligence as a Bridge for Art & Reality - The New York Times.
- ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Has Become Meaningless - "It’s often just a fancy name for a computer program."
- Artificial Intelligence IS GOING TO SUPERCHARGE SURVEILLANCE - The Verge.
- Artificial Intelligence Swarms Silicon Valley on Wings & Wheels - The New York Times.
- Asimo - Wikipedia.
- ‘Ask all the time: why do I need this?’ How to stop your vacuum from spying on you - "Even if you’re not gadget-obsessed, the odds are you’ve got at least one smart device at home. So how do you limit the internet of things from listening in?"
- Atlas - Wikipedia.
- Automation Potential & US Jobs - McKinsey Global Institute.
- Autonomous robot - Wikipedia.
- BEST ROBOT VACUUM YOU CAN BUY RIGHT NOW 2022 - "These wonderful little robots do all the hard work for you."
- best robotics kits for beginners - engadget.
- Bio-inspired robotics - Wikipedia.
- Bixby (software) - virtual assistant developed by Samsung Electronics. It represents a major reboot for S Voice, Samsung's voice assistant app introduced in 2012 with the Galaxy S III. S Voice was later discontinued on 1 June 2020. In May 2017, Samsung announced that Bixby would be coming to its line of Family Hub 2.0 refrigerators, making it the first non-mobile product to include the virtual assistant.
- Boston Dynamics' robot dog is good enough to show how terrible home robots are right now - The Verge.
- Boston Dynamics' robots can parkour better than you - "It's a good thing these robots are our friends."
- Cobot | collaborative robot - robot intended to physically interact with humans in a shared workspace. This is in contrast with other robots, designed to operate autonomously or with limited guidance, which is what most industrial robots were up until the decade of the 2010s.
- Cortana’s redesign is now available for iOS - "A voice assistant for those entrenched in the Microsoft ecosystem."
- Deepfake - (a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake") is a technique for human image synthesis based on artificial intelligence. It is used to combine and superimpose existing images and videos onto source images or videos using a machine learning technique known as generative adversarial network.
- DeepMind - British artificial intelligence company founded in September 2010.
- Ditch Siri & Put Alexa on Your iPhone Home Screen Instead - "Adding the Alexa widget to your iOS home screen puts Amazon's voice assistant just a short tap away. Here's how to set it up."
- Domestic robot - Wikipedia.
- Elon Musk unveils prototype humanoid Optimus robot - "The robot walked around gingerly onstage and is supposedly targeting a price of less than $20,000."
- Elon Musk unveils humanoid ‘Optimus’ robot at Tesla’s AI Day - "Prototype walks onstage and waves at event as company looks to future beyond vehicles."
- Europe wants robots to pay taxes - Fusion.
- Everything new you can do with Google Home - The Verge.
- FORGET THE ECHO. THE DOT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ALEXA DEVICE - Wired.
- Getting the Most Out of the New Digital Voice Assistants - The New York Times.
- Google Assistant now gives you more control over connected devices - engadget.
- Google Assistant's routines are an easy way to automate your home - engadget.
- GOOGLE HOME MINI REVIEW: CHASING DOTS - The Verge.
- Google Home Mini review: Taking aim at the Echo Dot - engadget.
- Google Home Review - The Verge.
- Google Home speakers now double as house intercoms - engadget.
- Google Home will be cheaper than the Amazon Echo - The Verge.
- Google Home will take on Echo to be your at-home assistant - engadget.
- Google is bleeding cash trying to take on Amazon in the smart home - The Verge.
- Google launched a new AR app that lets you draw white lines in the air - The Verge.
- Google's Assistant will help 'sync' your smart home devices - "A handy little phrase for smart home enthusiasts."
- Google's smart home ecosystem has arrived - "It's not as robust as Amazon's, but it's a strong competitor."
- Guide to robots - Wired.
- HARMAN KARDON INVOKE REVIEW: CORTANA GETS A SPEAKER OF ITS OWN - "A smart speaker for Microsoft’s world."
- Hebocon: The contest to find the world's crappiest robots - engadget.
- Here Is How to Fend Off a Hijacking of Home Devices - The New York Times.
- Home automation - Wikipedia.
- HomeRun for Apple Watch lets you make HomeKit complications that change based on time of day - 9to5Mac.
- Honda retires its famed Asimo robot - The Verge.
- How an AI took down four world-class poker pros - engadget.
- how do you tell who’s human online? - "Automated ‘voices’ that were supposed to do mundane tasks online also now spread hate speech and polarise opinion. Are they a boon or a threat?"
- How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can - The New York Times.
- How robots will make the rich even richer - The Guardian.
- How smart speakers stole the show from smartphones - The Guardian.
- How To Fool AI Into Seeing Something That Isn’t There - Wired.
- HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR AMAZON ECHO DOT - Wired.
- How to hear (and delete) every conversation your Amazon Alexa has recorded - The Verge.
- How to live with robots - Wired.
- How to make phone calls with Google Home - The Verge.
- How to Make Your House a Smart Home - The New York Times.
- How to Protect Your Smart Home From Hackers - "Smart home devices can make life more convenient, but may put you at risk of being hacked. Ensure your safety with a few simple measures."
- How to use Alexa Cast - The Verge.
- HOW TO USE SIRI TO AUTOMATE EVERY STEP OF YOUR DAILY GRIND - Wired.
- How to use the Amazon Echo & Alexa - The Telegraph.
- Humanoid robot - Wikipedia.
- 'I was shocked it was so easy': meet the professor who says facial recognition can tell if you're gay - The Guardian.
- IBM Is Counting on Its Bet on Watson, and Paying Big Money for It - The New York Times.
- IBM's Watson-based voice assistant is coming to cars & smart homes - engadget.
- Inside Silicon Valley’s Robot Pizzeria - Bloomberg.
- INSIDE THE FIRST CHURCH OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Wired.
- Is AR's future in smart glasses, or just your phone - Wired.
- Is My Not-So-Smart House Watching Me? - The New York Times.
- JOB ALERT: HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BABYSIT ROBOTS? - Wired.
- Keep Your A.I. Buzzwords Straight - "This guide will help you get a handle on the difference between 'machine learning' and 'deep learning.'
- Kuri home robot can read to your kids & watch your home - engadget.
- Let the robots speak to one another - The Verge.
- Litter robot - Wikipedia.
- Living With Robots Will Change Humans in Unexpected Ways - Motherboard.
- Meet the robot that'll keep you company when you're old - "Stop Me if You've Heard This One: A Robot and a Team of Irish Scientists Walk Into a Senior Living Home."
- Meet the Smartest, Cutest AI-Powered Robot You’ve Ever Seen - Wired.
- Microsoft calls for facial recognition technology rules given 'potential for abuse' - The Guardian.
- One week with Siri - engadget.
- Oxford Scientists Have an AI That Can Read Your Lips - Futurism.
- 'Partnership on AI' formed by Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM & Microsoft - The Guardian.
- Pepper - Wikipedia.
- Personal robot - Wikipedia.
- REEM - Wikipedia.
- Robot mowers - "Meet the new generation of unpaid gardeners."
- Robotic lawn mower - Wikipedia.
- Robotic vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia.
- Robotics - Wikipedia.
- Robotics - A Complete Resource Guide - Reviews & Buying Guide - The Best Indeed.
- Robotics Trends - "Your guide to enhancing daily life with robotics and AI technology."
- Robots had their own skiing competition at the Winter Olympics - engadget.
- RobotShop - "Putting robotics at your services."
- Samsung Ballie first look at CES 2020 - Samsung's small, yellow Ballie robot is designed to act as a personal assistant for the home. The device uses a mobile interface, on-device artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, voice activation and an in-built camera to recognise and respond to its users, and help them with various household tasks. It responds to spoken demands as a pet might, but can be used as a wakeup call, a fitness assistant, to record moments or to manage other smart devices in the home like TVs and vacuums. YouTube 3:24.
- SAY HELLO TO ASTRO, ALEXA ON WHEELS - "Amazon’s long-awaited home robot is here."
- Scientists try to teach robot to laugh at the right time - "Research team hopes system could improve natural conversations between humans and AI systems."
- Segway’s Loomo bot drives like a hoverboard & follows like a puppy - The Verge.
- See how old Amazon’s AI thinks you are - The Verge.
- Segway's robot mower uses GPS to stay on your lawn - "There's no need to install a perimeter wire with the Navimow."
- Service robot - Wikipedia.
- Singapore has deployed robots to patrol public areas - "They'll keep an eye out for rule breakers, including those who flout Singapore's COVID-19 safety measures."
- SIRI, WHY HAVE YOU FALLEN BEHIND OTHER DIGITAL ASSISTANTS? - Wired.
- Siri’s Not Even the Best iPhone Assistant Anymore - Wired.
- Soft robots can now run like cheetahs & swim like marlins - "It's all thanks to a more flexible spine."
- Sonos One review: The best-sounding smart speaker you can buy - engadget.
- Sony’s Google Assistant Speaker Tries to Do Too Much - Wired.
- Sony's smart speaker gives Google Assistant a more capable home - engadget.
- Tempo is a smart home gym that uses computer vision to track your form in real time - "Less about reps, more about form."
- The big idea: Should we worry about artificial intelligence? - "Could AI turn on us, or is natural stupidity a greater threat to humanity?"
- The charge of the chatbots: how do you tell who’s human online? - "Automated ‘voices’ that were supposed to do mundane tasks online also now spread hate speech and polarise opinion. Are they a boon or a threat?"
- The makers of Vespa designed a cute robot to carry your stuff - The Verge.
- The Most Fun (and Useful) Things You Can Do With an Amazon Echo or Google Home - "Smart home devices will tell you the weather and answer trivia questions, sure, but they can do so much more. Try these tips to streamline your day, relax a little or just have some fun."
- The most 'human' robot yet - "Meet Sophia: The robot who laughs, smiles and frowns just like us."
- The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’: Robots That Could Kill on Their Own - The New York Times.
- The race to build the world’s first sex robot - The Guardian.
- The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work - The Guardian.
- The robot that takes your job should pay taxes, says Bill Gates - Quartz Media.
- These are three of the biggest problems facing today's AI - The Verge.
- These cute robots are delivering hotel room service in Asia - "These cute robots could deliver your next coffee. The stocky white cuboid resembles Star Wars' R2D2 robot in its build, but has the wide-eyed expression of Pixar's WALL-E. It's delivering drinks to patrons of the HFT Life cafe in a compartment in its 'head' which is unlocked by the customer using a PIN code sent to their phone."
- this ‘breathing’ robot might help you sleep better
- TOPIO - Wikipedia.
- TURNING AN ECHO INTO A SPY DEVICE ONLY TOOK SOME CLEVER CODING - Wired.
- Uncanny valley - in aesthetics, the uncanny valley is a hypothesized relationship between the degree of an object's resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to such an object.
- Vector, Anki’s cute robot companion, is available today - "It’s the desk toy that can be your friend."
- Watch a Boston Dynamics robot herd sheep in New Zealand - "Robotics company Rocos shows how Spot might advance precision agriculture."
- We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting - "We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks seriously."
- WHAT AMAZON ECHO & GOOGLE HOME DO WITH YOUR VOICE DATA - Wired.
- WHEN TECH KNOWS YOU BETTER THAN YOU KNOW YOURSELF - Wired.
- Why Bill Gates would tax robots - Quartz Media.
- why humans won’t dominate Earth in 300 years - "It's not because I overestimate the AI. It's because most people tend to overestimate human beings."
- Why You Should Stop This ‘Dangerous’ Update To Your Amazon Account - "Cybersecurity experts are warning Amazon customers to beware a new account update being rolled out to the company’s smart devices installed in millions of homes. The plan is for those customers to share their home broadband with neighbors, to make their devices work more effectively and over longer distances. This new account setting will be on by default, impacting many Echo and Ring devices - you actually need to log into your account to switch it off."
- Why We May Soon Be Living in Alexa’s World - The New York Times.
- WHY YOU SHOULD LET A ROBOT COOK YOUR NEXT MEAL - The Verge.
- “World’s First Robot Lawyer” Is a Chatbot That's Actually Useful - Slate.
- Would you take dating advice from your Amazon Echo? - The Verge.
- year 2050: robot sex, talking pets – and immortality - The Guardian.
- You may soon be able to control your home with a smart wall - The Verge.
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