Consider a pick-and-place machine. Here a proximity sensor fires when a component comes in range. It triggers a robot arm to pick up the part and move it to a shipping container. Many times this ...

The idea of a smart home sounds promising enough -- who doesn't want a house full of automated gadgets, from light switches to appliances to heating systems, that know exactly when to turn on, turn ...

Now is the time for chief information officers (CIOs) and other business leaders to begin developing ethical programming protocols for smart machines, according to the Gartner research group. Smart ...