Bloomberg Businessweek’s Tom Moroney reports on a new soft robotic fish developed by MIT researchers. The fish, he writes, “can shake its booty on computer command and escape from an anxious angler’s grip nearly as fast as the real thing.”
Los Angeles Times reporter Amina Khan writes that researchers from MIT have built, “a robotic clam that isn't edible but could be incredibly useful, because it easily outperforms other commercial digging devices.” The RoboClam was designed to mimic the digging technique of the Atlantic razor clam.
Paul Solman of the PBS NewsHour interviews MIT Professors Andrew McAfee and Eric Brynjolfsson on their new book The Second Machine Age. McAfee and Brynjolfsson argue that advances in automation are causing a radical industrial revolution.
Alex Beam of The Boston Globe interviews Kate Darling of the MIT Media Lab for this op-ed that examines the possible need for legal rights for robots in the future.