While everyone keeps saying that robots are not a job security threat, it is also true that robots are steadily getting better at tasks. Enter this little bad boy, the robot that won Amazon's Picking Challenge. A team of engineers from Netherland's TU Del have won this year's challenge, both in the picking and stowing finals. They dubbed their creation "Delft." The cool thing is their robot is no ordinary warehouse bot; it relies on a suction cup, a "two-fingered" gripper, and the combination of deep learning artificial intelligence and depth-sensing cameras to get the job done.

Continuing the mission of the past AGI conferences, AGI-16 gathers an international group of leading academic and industry researchers involved in scientific and engineering work aimed directly toward the goal of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). AGI-16 @ New York will be held from July 16-19 of 2016, on the campus of the New School in Lower Manhattan. As a special event for 2016, the AGI-16 conference will be co-located with three other related conferences -- BICA-16, the Neural-Symbolic Workshop 2016 and the AI & Cognition Workshop 2016 -- as part of the overall Human-Level Intelligence 2016 (HLAI-16) event. AGI conferences are organized by the Artificial General Intelligence Society, in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). The proceedings of AGI-16 will be published as a book in Springer's Lecture Notes in AI series, and all the accepted papers will be available online.

Minecraft is one of those rare tech phenomenons that came out of the blue (a single person and a Java compiler in this case) and went on to somehow revolutionize its field. For the blocky building-survival simulator that field is definitely gaming, but by effectively redefining the sandbox genre, Minecraft has managed to affect an expected number of other fields as well. Ever since its humble beginnings and especially after Microsoft took over and allowed it to really take off in popularity, the Minecraft world has been a canvas for incredible creativity with projects ranging from epic 1:1 scale reconstruction of buildings to working PC emulators inside a Minecraft map and even a functioning phone. But it is perhaps Microsoft itself that has managed to find the most exciting use of the sandbox to date. It is called Project Malmo (formerly known an Project AIX) and its purpose is to experiment with and train artificial intelligence and advance cutting-edge technologies like machine learning and neural networks.

Despite being a good few decades old, the basis of the Turing test -- developed by the computer science genius Alan Turning -- remains the exact same to this day. It asks whether a computer can trick a human into believing they are speaking with another fellow human. In one part of the test, a human judge is asked to interact with two hidden objects -- one is a human and the other a machine -- to determine if they can distinguish between the two. And if not, that AI has passed the Turing test. There has been a lot of challengers who have claimed that AI has actually passed the test.

The depths of the ocean can be a dangerous place, even for a drone. Incredible footage has captured the moment a Great white shark mistakes the machine for food and attacks it with amazing speed and precision. It is believed the video was filmed off the coast of Australia where Great whites are commonly spotted in southern waters from Exmouth in Western Australia to Southern Queensland. The video shows the metal drone sitting deep in the ocean, when almost out of nowhere the underwater beast appears. Within seconds the Great white wraps it teeth around drone and viciously tugs at it before realising the hunk of metal is not a tasty meal.

Tesla boss Elon Musk has said he is preparing to release a new top secret'master plan' that will determine the future of his electric car business. The announcement comes at a time when his company is under pressure following a fatal crash involving one of its cars running on its Autopilot feature and falling stock prices. But many expect it could help to rejuvenate the company's fortunes. CEO Elon Musk delivers a speech at the Paris Pantheon Sorbonne University as part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. Mr Musk went on Twitter to say he's working on another'Top Secret Tesla Masterplan'.

When Google debuted a Pokemon ad on April Fools' Day, we thought it was just a joke. Matthew Pellegrini checks his phone while playing Pokemon Go at the NorthPark Center mall in Dallas as his friend Ashley Jenkins charges her phone with an external battery. It's only been available in the U.S. since Thursday, but Pokémon Go has officially become a viral phenomenon. If you're curious why it seems everyone is talking about Pokémon in recent days, let's catch up. Last week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company launched Pokémon Go, a game for iPhones and Android smartphones featuring the classic video game franchise where players catch and train special creatures called Pokémon. What makes the game special is its use of augmented reality, where Pokémon will appear as if they've been spotted in the real world.

Segway creator Dean Kamen's Luke prosthetic arm has been a long time in coming -- the FDA approved it two years ago. Mobius Bionics has revealed that it will offer the Luke arm sometime in late 2016. It's not clear what it will take to get one (you can register your interest today), but the features remain the same. The bionic wearable is all about offering the life-like dexterity that hasn't really been an option until now: you can hold a glass over your head without spilling it, for example, and the hand's mix of four motors and grip sensors can help you grab both very delicate and very heavy items. The odds are that getting one won't be trivial, but it might well be justified if it grants some extra freedom.

The race to build the world's first true quantum computer is on, with huge potential payoffs for businesses that harness the technology before their competitors. The computers we use today represent information in binary bits – on/off, 0/1 – while a quantum computer's qubit can, in simple terms, be both on and off the same time. That means many computations can be performed in parallel; a quality that, when fully realised, will give quantum computers a huge speed advantage over'classical' computers in solving certain problems. Microsoft and IBM are ploughing significant sums into related research. Google, NASA and Lockheed Martin have invested in a D-Wave 2X -- described by its maker as the "world's first commercially available quantum computer", although debate rages over its capabilities.

At the conference last week, there were tons of startups trying to get the attention of reporters and Venture Capitalists (VC's.) From what I saw, most software products centered around one five things, Communication Tools, Bots, Artificial Intelligence (AI), the "Gig" Economy, and Virtual Reality (VR). There used to be a hard line between tools that we used for our professional lives and tools that we used for our personal lives. That line is more blurred than ever. There is a crossover that allows us to use one device for all of our professional and personal needs.