Artist Sougwen Chung built a robot arm that draws in harmony with her in order to gain a better understanding of how humans relate to robots. With the project, dubbed "Drawing Operations Unit" (or DOUG for short), she hopes to counter the prevailing media representations of robots as adversarial to their human counterparts. Check out the video above to see Chung and DOUG in action.

Are you psyched about your recent Tinder match? A little nervous your Tinder-fella might not be Prince Charming? Well, we're here to help. In our first episode of Guided Meditations, our enthusiastic meditation leader tries to help you center yourself before the oh-so-dreaded first date. Turn off the lights and assume the fetal position as you check out the video above.

We've already seen robots that paint pictures and compose songs, so it only stands to reason that someone would attempt to get one to write a novel. In this case, the exercise was a team effort between humans and an artificial intelligence (A.I.) program in an attempt to win Japan's Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award. See also: Microsoft's Twitter bot turned from average teen to Jew-hating Trump supporter in 12 hours No, the human-assisted A.I. didn't win the prize, but it came close -- it passed the contest's initial screening phase. The human part of the team, led by Hitoshi Matsubara, a professor at Future University Hakodate, came up with the general framing of the story, including plot (the most important part), and the gender of the characters, according to the The Yomiuri Shimbun. Afterwards, the A.I. cobbled the short novel together by selecting sentences created by the team of humans.

Co-founder and CEO of Splice, Steve Martocci recognized the struggles that musicians were going through to create and share their music, so he created a platform to streamline the process, freeing musicians to spend more time and energy on the creative aspects of a project. Watch the video above to learn more about the startup that will have musicians everywhere singing.

Carmakers are working hard to develop fully autonomous, self-driving cars. And while we have some time to go before we can just hop into a car and let it drive us wherever we please, semi-autonomous cars are currently available and on the road today. SEE ALSO: Lost on how GPS works? So how does autonomous driving work, and what technology is used to make this futurist fantasy a reality? Check out the latest installment of Mashable Explains in the video above for those answers and more.

Steph Curry is such a basketball god these days that Madam Tussauds in San Francisco unveiled his very own wax likeness on Thursday. The really good -- or bad, depending on your taste -- part is seeing Curry face swap with his own wax likeness. SEE ALSO: How Steph Curry became the NBA's most Vine-worthy star Here we have Curry and his wax doppelganger, as seen Thursday on the Warriors' Snapchat channel. Unconfirmed reports say that even Curry's wax doppelganger has range out to 25 feet. No word on whether it stands up as well to a water attack by elementary schoolers, however.

The Amazon Echo, with its fantastic Alexa voice-based controls, has every major tech company kicking themselves for not thinking of it first. Not happy with being beaten by Amazon, Google is reportedly working on its own version of the Echo, according to a report from The Information. Nest Labs, the company Google bought for 3.2 billion in 2014 was reportedly interested in working on the secret product. The Information's report claims tensions with Nest forced Google to decide to work on the product with its own team. The tensions could be related with Nest CEO Tony Fadell's struggle to build out the company and maintain employee satisfaction.

It was December 31, 2014. In Shanghai, thousands flocked to the historic and picturesque Bund, where there had been reports a light show would take place to ring in the new year. Unfortunately, too many people had the same idea. A dangerously dense crowd formed, and at a viewing platform in Chen Yi Square overlooking the river, confusion and a lack of crowd control led to panic and eventually stampede. Within minutes, 36 people had been killed and another 49 had been injured in the crush.

Self-driving cars may seem like a futurist's fantasy, but autonomous vehicles are already on the road today. So what kind of technology do they use, and what is the future of the self-driving car? We're here to help explain.

Cover letters are challenging, to say the least. How do you use them to your best advantage? How business-like or personality-filled should they be? Do people even read the stupid things in the first place? Yes, they read them, especially if you get them in the hands of the right people and draw them in with a compelling opening that's on point and reflective of your personality.