Top news of the week: 13.04.2021.
Robotics
Warm feelings about human-looking robots can turn icy when bots blunder
If a robot worker makes a mistake on the job, or annoys customers, businesses may not give it a pink slip and a cardboard box for its office belongings, but companies may be forced to shut ...
3D System can Produce Objects with Spatially-Various Gloss
A new 3D printer from MIT researchers can be used to reproduce fine art or fabricate more realistic prosthetics.
The best baby monitors for your home nursery
Here's a list of the best baby monitors for your home nursery, as reviewed by Engadget editors.
The Morning After: The best wireless headphones you can find
We're lining up the best wireless headphones we can find, and looking at Best Buy's Amazon Prime rival.
Microsoft is reportedly close to buying speech tech giant Nuance
Microsoft is reportedly in late talks to buy Nuance for $16 billion, giving it advantages in speech tech and AI.
Someone Found a Way to Make Video Calls Even Worse With a Realistic Robot Eye Webcam
For anyone who doesn’t think a year spent trying to work and socialise through video calls could get any worse, behold the Eyecam: an anthropomorphic robotic webcam designed to look like a ...
The future of air combat is drones launching more drones
The 28-foot-long Valkyrie is like an autonomous fighter jet, and its launching of another drone is a hint of what's to come in aerial warfare.