Defense contractors race to build self-driving submarines that can clear sea mines

Over the past two decades unmanned aerial drones have transformed how the U.S. Air Force wages war, allowing it to surveil hostile territory and neutralize enemy targets without putting the lives of pilots at risk. Next, the Navy is hoping it can employ its own unmanned vehicles to clear mines, scout unfamiliar territory or wage anti-submarine warfare.

Elon Musk Doesn’t Work Alone. These Are Tesla’s Other Key Leaders

There was a rare moment at Tesla's annual shareholder meeting in early June when Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk shared the spotlight. First, he acknowledged one of his biggest mistakes: Production of the Model 3, Tesla's make-or-break sedan, had faltered by trying to automate "things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do."

Trump takes aim at China’s tech sector. That could hurt U.S. innovation.

Visitors to the 21st China Beijing International High-tech Expo look at robots and a helicopter drone on display on May 17. The U.S.-China tech rivalry looks likely to intensify, despite ongoing efforts to avoid a tariff war . Among other targets, the Trump administration has taken aim at two aspects of China's presence in the United States: high-tech investment and students.

Three sectors being transformed by artificial intelligence

But exactly how that technology will influence the enterprise sector remains to be seen. Fiery public debates have swirled in the tech community around whether new advancements involve tactical adoptions for enterprise, like a personalized, improved retail experience, or whether these developments signal the coming of the robot apocalypse.

The Mail

Having worked as a manufacturing engineer for forty-five years, and having installed fifteen robotic manufacturing systems, I was impressed by Sheelah Kolhatkar's comprehensive piece on how robotics and artificial intelligence are replacing human workers . The world of manufacturing is undergoing rapid changes, and the number of highly skilled people who are needed to design, program, test, install, and service the robots and the manufacturing systems does not come close to the number of people who have lost their jobs to these technologies.

Will New Driverless Guidelines Jump-Start the Industry?

The Department of Transportation recently released revised guidelines for driverless cars, relaxing some guidelines put out during the Obama administration last year. For example, a 15-point safety assessment was trimmed to just 12 points, and the guidelines no longer apply to Level 2 vehicles with partial automation such as crash-avoidance features.

Breaking from Google, Democrats consider becoming an antimonopoly party

Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website - Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. a A messy, public brawl over a Google critic's ouster from a Washington think tank has exposed a fissure in Democratic Party politics.

Russian online bots step up influence bid

After the 2016 U.S. presidential race was subject to Russian cyber meddling, analysts say the ferocity of more recent assaults is a preview of what could be coming in the 2018 elections, when Republicans will be defending their control of both chambers of Congress. "They haven't stood still since 2016," said Ben Nimmo, a senior fellow in information defense at the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council in Washington, which tracked the activity.

Correction: Future of Work-Running the Robots-ABRIDGED story

In a story Aug. 15 about automation in manufacturing, The Associated Press erroneously attributed a report that forecast 2 million new American manufacturing jobs in the next decade. It should have cited The Manufacturing Institute, not the American Manufacturing Institute.