July 23, 2007Chimps on treadmills may help explain why human ancestors evolved into bipeds 10 million years ago.Images: Humans vs. chimps at the gymTAGS:leg, treadmill, energy, human, patch management, researcher
September 9, 2007Technologists and investors gather at the Singularity Summit to discuss what to do in the event that machines one day outthink humans.TAGS:human, Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco
June 5, 2006You may not eat figs on a daily basis today, but 11,000 years ago it was the hot new food--and may have been a first step toward modern agriculture.TAGS:human, crop, Middle East, food, professor
April 10, 2007Start-up Anybots sees a day when robots will do many things that humans now do. For now, though, they're just working on staying upright.Photos: Meet Dexter and Monty, the AnybotsVideo: Humanoid ro...TAGS:robot, robotics, iRobot Roomba, human, work, researcher, video
April 12, 2005Theologian Anne Foerst says we're a lonely species, and robots have a lot to teach us about who we are.TAGS:ambiguity, robot, human, researcher
July 23, 2004Firm with Carnegie Mellon roots plans to hire 100 people to help make and sell robots that fix sewer pipes.TAGS:robot, Pennsylvania, hiring, robotics, human, vision
November 16, 2005A growing number of Web sites are implementing tagging systems as a way to bring order and organization to information.TAGS:tagging, folksonomy, Flickr, human, search engine, blog
September 21, 2005Mike Merzenich, a neuroscientist, investigates whether intelligence in the Internet age is really on the upswing.TAGS:brain, intelligence, human, scientist, TV