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Social media is quickly becoming the most important tool used for businesses. If you think social media is not worth your time then surely you are missing out on one of the most powerful social media marketing tools available to you. A number of brands have experimented with social bots that can help them improve their customer process. A growing amount of social media content is generated by autonomous entities known as social bots.

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Twitter is cracking down on bots after it announced changes to its API that will massively reduce the impact of services that allow links and content to be shared across multiple accounts, i.e. the software that powers Twitter bots.

So that means an end to services that let those controlling large numbers of accounts to batch tweet, follow users, retweet or like tweets. Twitter will continue to allow content to be posted to accounts using software, for example, weather alerts, RSS feed updates and more, but they will now be limited to a single account going forward.

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i-Wei Huang hacks together bit and peices to make beautiful steam powered robots and techno bugs. You may have seen his work before, at his day job Huang develops toys and characters for Skylanders.

Get a bots'-eye view of the "human exclusion zone" in a massive warehouse where an army of high-tech robots finds and fulfills up to 30,000 orders a day.

Follow a robot as it works its day job—transforming the world of e-commerce by hustling packages around the giant warehouses that propel the modern economy. New robot minions: Welcome to the team.

In this World Economic Forum discussion, Carnegie Mellon roboticist Howard Choset shows how snake-like robots can perform minimally invasive surgeries, decreasing cost and patient recovery time.

The technological advances in remotely operated vehicles (R.O.V.) have allowed researchers to uncover new ocean depths, like the 1986 footage of the Titanic by the Alvin submersible. Find out what lies ahead for the future of deep-sea exploration from the scientists who are taking the plunge.

During a shoot Jeff can't seem to get his lines quite right. It’s two simple words, but with so many different ways to convey the emotion behind them Jeff and co-star Summer Glau are left pondering the philosophical meaning behind “human alert!"

Things take a turn during a "Jeff 1000” shoot when David Arquette takes time to do a behind-the-scenes interview. Everything starts off smoothly, but the second David is asked about his robot co-star Jeff, all hell breaks loose with David comparing Jeff to a second-rate WALL-E.

Movie robots fall into one of three categories: the cutesy ones who do repairs (C3PO), the menacing bad guys designed to inflict pain (Mechagodzilla), and the child-like naifs who learn about the wonders and horrors of the world through experience. Angry Nerd explains why Neill Blomkamp’s new sci-fi flick “Chappie” falls into the third group and he breaks down why we need more movies that cast robots as the wide-eyed outsider.

Speakers at the WIRED Business Conference grapple with how AI will transform the job market.

Scientists just released robots that look like Minions into the Pacific Ocean. The little bots are on a mission to unravel one of the great mysteries of the sea: what the hell are marine larvae up to?

We take a look at some of the new robotic technology being developed at JPL's Robotics Lab, including robots that use "gecko" technology to grip walls and climb 90 degree surfaces.

UCLA Robotics lab shows off their newest and most innovative projects, including robots who search for mines and cannot fall down.

Parking sucks. Looking for a space, driving round and round, trying not to hit a pillar. Fear not, the robots have it covered.

Wall-E, Terminator, Eva. Which beloved moves robots are realistic to create and which are a far stretch? Our expert breaks it down.

LG’s Hub Bots have Alexa’s super AI brains in bodies made for shaking it to your favorite tunes.

At CES 2017 Lego just unveiled Boost, a clever kit that introduces programming and cool tech to the bricks you grew up with.

It’s tough work for pairs of humans who install each of the 60,000 rivets that keep Boeing's 777 from falling apart in midair, so they’re getting some help from pairs of robots on the plane production line.

Artificial intelligence and automation stand to upend nearly every aspect of modern life, from transportation to health care and even work. So how did we get here and where are we going?

In the not too distant future, a robot could be working right beside you and that means human and machine need to learn how to interact seamlessly. Researchers at UC Berkeley are working on solving four fascinating problems with human-robot interactions.

Autonomous driving technology could make getting around safer, more efficient, and less expensive. What will it mean for the millions of people who drive for a living and is it really ready for the road?

Artificial intelligence and advanced automation are everywhere including our farm fields and kitchens. How will robots change the way we grow, harvest and cook our food?

Technology – from steel to server farm – has always changed what it means to be human. But what happens as we meld with ever more capable machines?

Robot co-workers and artificial intelligence assistants are becoming more common in the workplace. Could they edge human employees out? What then?

In Salinas Valley, about an hour and a half south of San Francisco, farmers and tech types are joining forces to turn this place into a kind of Silicon Valley for agriculture.

Sophisticated companion robots have arrived. But we need to be very careful about how we interact with them.

Nothing in robotics is as unintentionally hilarious as watching a biped fall. But roboticists are making progress- like with this machine named Cassie.

These tiny robots take a cue from ant colonies to cooperatively build. Some do the glue work, and some assemble scaffolding that could make for stronger 3D printing. Someday armies of microscopic bots might even roam our bodies to capture unwanted cells.

Go inside Syntouch, the laboratory developing a robotic finger that senses pressure, heat, and texture. This handy robot has huge implications for the world of prosthetics and product descriptions, and it may one day change the way we think about and describe our sense of touch.

Welcome to the world of human-robot interaction, in which people have to adapt to the machines as much as the machines have to adapt to us.

The only thing more impressive than these robots’ soccer skills is how they band together as a team.

At Silicon Valley startup Iron Ox, the plan for agriculture, or at least leafy greens, is to automate the entire growing process indoors with robots and artificial intelligence.

Hey robot futurist! We've got one word for you: Actuators. They're the motorized joints that make robots strong, agile, and precise and they're getting better all the time.

2017 was the year that robots really broke free from the factories and labs and started roaming among us.

At a company in Richmond, Calif., robotic painters are working alongside human workers, sanding and painting cabinets. Despite early fears from employees, the human workers have grown to embrace the "cobots" -- collaborative robots who are helping them get the job done.

Step inside the Panoptic Studio, a dome at Carnegie Mellon University where researchers are capturing data on human gestures, which will be used to create more lifelike and responsive robots.

Robots and AI are expected to operate more seamlessly within the human world. To achieve this, scientists have begun outfitting technology with the same sensors that human beings use. Those sensors, more commonly known as the five senses, are sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. In this series, WIRED Brand Lab explores the senses that are being developed for technology so that these objects can better operate within the human world and humans can better interact with the virtual world.

Seven years after an earthquake devastated Japan, humans and robots are still trying to clean up Fukushima.

Welcome to the wild world of human-robot interaction, the quest to get humans and robots collaborating without hurting each other.

Truly useful robots will have to be able to tackle everything humans can, so they’ve gotta have legs. Easier said than done, though.

Nature knows what it’s doing, and roboticists are more than happy to steal evolution’s ideas to make a plethora of curious and clever machines.

Sending a robot into the icy depths and getting it back alive can be more challenging than communicating with a Mars rover millions of miles away.

Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert shares the backstory of his company's viral videos and how the internet's favorite robot dog, SpotMini, came to be.

Bumblebee star John Cena tests his knowledge on all things related to robots. Can John guess the names of some of the most famous robots in history? Can he guess which are robots and which are humans? Can John design a robot version of himself? Bumblebee is in theaters December 21, 2018!

Dogs can smell explosives like landmines, and detect medical conditions including seizures, diabetes, and many forms of cancer -- with up to 98% accuracy. Inventor Andreas Mershin wants to replicate that -- and put a nose in every cell phone. WIRED's Emily Dreyfuss spoke with Mershin to find out why that's easier said than done, and to learn what building a robotic nose has taught us about smell.

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