Will Robots Make Good Friends? Scientists Are Already Starting to Find Out

This week on SingularityHub [SingluarityHub-rss-feed-logo]( Weekly Newsletter [Will Robots Make Good Friends? Scientists Are Already Starting to Find Out]( [robot and child in market] In the 2012 film Robot and Frank, the protagonist, a retired cat burglar named Frank, is suffering the early symptoms of dementia. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [READ MORE]( [Flying Taxis Will Hit LA Skies by 2024, According to a California Startup’s Plan]( [archer flying taxi] Air taxis still seem like a far-off concept, especially in a time when a lot of people have stopped flying or using shared transportation altogether. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [READ MORE]( [Facial Recognition Drones Will Use AI to Take the Perfect Picture of You]( [facial recognition] Facial recognition technology has been banned by multiple US cities, including Portland, Boston, and San Francisco. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [READ MORE]( [Scientists Communicated With People While They Were Lucid Dreaming]( We’ve probed the depths of Earth’s deepest trench, sent rovers to Mars, and observed other worlds billions of light years away. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [READ MORE]( [We Sequenced the Oldest Ever DNA From Million-Year-Old Mammoths]( [oldest ever dna steppe-mammoth] Most people think of mammoths as the iconic woolly species from the last ice age, which ended around 12,000 years ago. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [READ MORE]( [This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 20)]( [tech stories yellow building blue sky] ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A New Artificial Intelligence Makes Mistakes—on Purpose Will Knight | Wired “It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [READ MORE]( [The First Endangered American Animal Has Been Cloned]( Last summer a horse named Kurt was born in Texas. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [READ MORE]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [YouTube]( Singularity University, 1049 El Monte Ave. Suite C #16, Mountain View, CA 94040, United States, +1-650-200-3434 [Unsubscribe]( [Manage preferences](