The World Economic Forum Lists Its Top 10 Emerging Technologies Of 2016

Criteria used during the deliberations was the likelihood that 2016 represents a tipping point in the deployment of each technology.

IBM And Xprize Open $5M A.I. Competition To Tackle Humanitys Greatest Challenges

Can AI be harnessed to solve some of the worlds greatest challenges? IBM and Xprize want to find out.

Toyota Will Spend A Billion Dollars On A 5 Year Project To Make Affordable Helper Robots

'My thought is, if the Toyota production system can be applied to cars, maybe it can also be applied to robots, because theyre quite similar'.

Tesla Makes Offer To Buy SolarCity

Electric carmaker Tesla has offered to buy solar panel company SolarCity in a bid to expand its clean energy business. Elon Musk described the deal as a "no brainer".

OpenAI Says It Will Build A Robot That Can Do Housework As Well As Other Intelligent Agents

'Were working to enable a physical robot to perform basic housework'