New research examines the fundamental cognitive abilities that an intelligent agent requires to navigate the world: discerning distinct objects and inferring how they respond to physical forces. Josh ...

Key choices when it comes to providing storage for containerised applications and whether to choose block, file or object ...

Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also ...

From sorting chicken nuggets to screwing in light bulbs, Eka’s robots are eerily lifelike. But do they have real physical smarts?

Professor Aaron Ames of the California Institute of Technology joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning question about ...

In the first part, we discussed how robots evolve from basic mechanics to understanding their environment. At the “last mile” ...

Egocentric vision, which captures the world from cameras worn on the human body, is rapidly emerging as a crucial frontier in artificial intelligence.

Are we all material—tissues and veins—or is there some nonmaterial substance, some essence, that transcends the corporeal form?

In a controversial 2025 paper, a researcher proposed a theory that consciousness may give rise to matter—not the other way ...

University of Washington researchers developed the first system that incorporates tiny cameras in off-the-shelf wireless earbuds to allow users to talk with an AI model about the scene in front of ...

For the first time, an international team of astronomers has identified a clear boundary of the Milky Way's star-forming disk ...

In Seeing Further, a novel obsessed with the tactile feeling of arthouse cinema, the sad state of our moviegoing comes into ...